representative jason chavitz chairs the house committee overseeing the district of columbia, suggesting that city officials could be gaoled for letting the law take effect. >> i have a lot of things to go in the district of columbia, me being in gaol would not be good. >> no one expected the mayor to be sent to gaol for charged with a crime, but it underlines the tension between the capital city and the congress. i'm joined by carl resine an attorney-general of the district of columbia. . >> it's a pleasure to be here on behalf of the citizens. >> in the run up to recreational legalization. they worked hard in colorado to build a fortress of legal limits, laws, regulations on the sale and cultivation and possession where the money would go, of really fearsome legal regime, as far as i can tell, none of that was done here. does that make your jobs as the guy who enforces the laws easier or harder? >> well, let me give a little background on why it is that strict regime or regulatory regime of real logic and commonsense was not implemented in washington d.c. as you know, the voters of the