WASHINGTON - The 'Make America Kind Again' movement was handing out over 8,000 marijuana joints Friday morning in Dupont Circle in an effort to rally for legalized marijuana nationwide.
A local group called DCMJ, which stands for DC Marijuana Justice, passed out free joints to anyone over the age of 21 with an ID. They hope to see marijuana legalized nationwide, soon.
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| Q starts his day by researching the story he is assigned to or the one he wishes to pitch. |
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| Q McCray, reporter from LA, working on one of his first stories for WJLA-TV. |
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| Q McCray anchoring a newscast. |
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| Q McCray, reporter from LA, working on one of his first stories for WJLA-TV. This picture was taken on our way to the scene. |
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| Scenery on our way to the pot protest event taken place on 4/20. |
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| Add Photographer, Mike Johns, getting prepared for the day. |
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| Q and Mike on the way to the protests. |
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| Add Q McCary preps for his liveshot for the 4o'clock news. |
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| Add The protest consisted of people giving out hand rolled joints to people who worked for the government. |
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| "I did nothing wrong” said Adam Eidinger, organizer of the marijuana advocacy group DCMJ. |
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| Police block off the area Eidinger was arrested. |
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| Jonny "G" poses for the media. |
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| "G" lights his joint on the streets of D.C. |
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| Margret Strinker, also a avid member of DCMJ, hands out joints. |
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| Q McCary interviewing "G" for the 4 o'clock news. |
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| Mother advocates for the legalization of marijuana saying "it saved her daughters life."Her daughter struggled with seizures her whole life until being treated by medical marijuana. |
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| Another advocate being arrested. |
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| Police were not short of being very aggressive and forceful with the arrest. |
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| Danny Solomen stands with the flag to express his right to smoke the "tree". |
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| Portrait of advocate mother. |
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| Police begin to look concerned with crowd increasing. |
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| Overview of the streets near Dupont Circle, Thursday. |
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| Locals took part in the rally. |
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| Q told me his names wasn't actually his name--a stage name for reporting. |
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| Q at his desk finishing up his work after we returned home. |
