It's been nearly four years since Washington, D.C., citizens overwhelmingly passed Initiative 71, granting all citizens over the age of 21 permission to possess up to two ounces of marijuana. The law allows district residents to use and grow pot on private property, and to exchange weed as long as no money, goods or services are exchanged.

Even in cannabis-legal Washington, DC, people are still getting severely sick due to synthetic marijuana.

Synthetic marijuana has caused a string of overdoses in the Washington, D.C. area this week, according to a report in the Washington Post. In one 24-hour period from Wednesday through Thursday, emergency medical personnel took dozens of people to local hospitals for treatment. City officials say the victims had been using K2 or Spice before being stricken.

The state prohibits doctors from ever using cannabis, even if it’s for the medical purpose of managing the pain of menstrual cramps.

When Dr. Yolanda Ng was offered a job as a pediatric nephrologist at Providence Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in Spokane, Washington, she was thrilled. She’d already been working in the position for five months as a locum, the medical industry equivalent of a temp, and liked the work. Plus, they were happy to allow her to split time between Spokane and San Jose, where her family lives. Little did she know, accepting the job would effectively end her medical career.

The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee wants to counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.

It turns out too much weed isn’t always a good thing.

Six years after it became one of the first states in the country to legalize adult-use cannabis, Washington is growing way too much weed.

While that may sound like a good kind of problem, plummeting prices and the danger of a federal crackdown can turn too much of a good thing into a serious issue. Much like its southern neighbor Oregon, Washington’s oversupply issue stems from the state’s lax regulations when it comes to growers.

The Washington, D.C.-based National Council for Aging Care recently released its complete guide to medical marijuana for seniors, advising those in their golden years on the benefits of alternative medication.

Go to any weed store in Washington these days, and you're likely to leave a happy customer. Strains of seemingly all kinds stock the shelves. A gram sells for less than $10.

Yet for those in the cannabis industry, the endless selection and continually dropping prices are emblematic of a serious problem.

"There's too much weed," says Eric Skaar, general manager at Sativa Sisters.

In Inlander interviews with farmers, retailers and industry experts, all agree on one thing: The state has grown too much cannabis and there aren't enough dispensaries to sell it. It's forced farmers, once eager to open up their own business, to sell their supply for pennies on the dollar.

Washington weed just keeps getting easier to access.

Now, in Auburn, tokers can replenish their stash without even getting out of the car: Joint Rivers, believed to be the state's first drive-thru cannabis dispensary, is now open for business.

It puts us behind Las Vegas, which got their first drive-thru dispensary -- and the first in the country -- back in November 2017. Where other states have fully embraced weed and its potential for kitschy, tourist stops, Washington has been a bit more cautious. California and Colorado have also opened up weed cafes, another area that Washington has been hesitant about.

Organizations weighing in on marijuana issues spent $20 million in the first half of 2018, more than triple the $6 million spent during the same period a year earlier, according to an analysis by NJ Cannabis Insider of second-quarter lobbying reports filed with the Clerk of the House.

The increase illustrates the activity on Capitol Hill as several bills have been introduced to remove the federal prohibition against marijuana, or to block Washington from interfering with states that have legalized cannabis.

The CDC and D.C. officials are searching for answers to the latest outbreak of K2 overdoses to hit the nation’s Capitol.

The dangerous and sometimes deadly synthetic marijuana drug called K2 has reared its head again, this time in the nation’s capital. Over the last two weeks, D.C. has seen an average of 25 K2 overdoses each day, totaling more than 300 overdoses so far. But Washington, D.C. is only the latest city to be hit by the drug, which is wreaking havoc across the United States.