It's "even though it's legal in DC". It doesn't matter since they are federal jobs. They can decriminalize, but until that happens, the municipal laws don't change the federal laws. The "even though" part means that whatever happened, that part is what negates the rest.
It's still illegal on the federal level. Those were federal jobs.
Still has a point, since the premise was on a federal decriminalization
It's "even though it's legal in DC". It doesn't matter since they are federal jobs. They can decriminalize, but until that happens, the municipal laws don't change the federal laws. The "even though" part means that whatever happened, that part is what negates the rest.