| Couldn’t resist. |
Springfield, Missouri City Councilman Doug Burlison believes that marijuana can be a helpful medicine and that it’s time to stop treating it like such a harmful, dangerous drug. Compared to other local elected officials, however, he is very much in the minority — so much so that his colleagues continue to reject efforts to pass a minor reform that would reduce the punishments for low-level possession cases.
The council once again voted down the initiative this week. Riverfront Times has the rest.
