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Marijuana-Related Arrests and Citations Almost Even in D.C. Since Decriminalization

By Toke of the Town on August 6, 2014 Follow that story, Legalize It, Legislation, News

Washington D.C. effectively decriminalized possession of up to one ounce of marijuana July 17, but that hardly means the end to marijuana-related arrests.
According to DCist, there were 26 arrests involving cannabis during the first two weeks of decriminalization– July 17 to July 31– just one less than the amount of citations (27) issued for possession. Data from D.C. Police says the 26 arrests were for public consumption, distribution, possession with the intent to distribute and possession of more than one ounce.

Washington D.C. marijuana decriminalization of an ounce or less starts today

By William Breathes on July 17, 2014 News

Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. adults (and minors) packing up to an ounce of weed on them can breathe a little easier today walking around town, as decriminalization laws went into effect that makes having ounce or less a civil infraction with a fine of $25.
That is a huge improvement from how things were yesterday, when those same residents were facing misdemeanor charges, six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Minnesota SWAT team kills family dog in failed drug raid

By Mike Adams on July 11, 2014 News

Serve and protect? Really?

A Minnesota SWAT team on a brainwashed mission to rid the world of yet another non-violent drug user has tipped the scales of injustice and inhumanity by brutally killing a family’s pets while executing a no-knock search warrant on their St. Paul residence.
The twisted, domestic infantry marched up to the home belonging to Larry Lee Arman and his girlfriend Camille Perry early Wednesday morning and used brute force to bust down the front door while the family slept inside. “I was laying right here, and I really thought I was being murdered,” Larry Lee Arman told KMSP Fox 9. “I don’t want to say by who. I thought it was like, the government.”

Brooklyn district attorney will stop prosecuting many low-level pot cases

By William Breathes on July 9, 2014 News

Commons/Postdif.

“You know the Bronx is up and I’m Brooklyn down.” -MCA

Police in New York City just don’t get it. Nobody likes their racially-biased marijuana law enforcement nor is their abuse of a legal loophole to put people in jail for otherwise decriminalized amounts of pot going to be tolerated much longer.
They are hearing that message a little louder this week as the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said they weren’t going to be pursuing low-level possession cases anymore. Police, predictably, are against the move – even though they’ll still be able to arrest people.

Philadelphia City Council votes to decriminalize up to 30 grams of pot

By William Breathes on June 20, 2014 News

On a vote of 13 to 3, the Philadelphia City Council yesterday approved decriminalizing up to 30 grams of herb within city limits, making the penalty a $25 fine.
Mayor Michael Nutter has been vocally opposed to loosening marijuana laws in the city, but a coalition of council members are now calling on him to approve the bill due to the overwhelming support. As it stands, the mayor can either veto or sign the bill, or he can do nothing and let the law go into effect without his endorsement. He could also apparently wait until September when council returns for the fall session to do anything.

Federal lawsuit: New Mexico cops sprayed mace in woman’s vagina

By Mike Adams on May 30, 2014 News, Say what?

New Mexico police have stepped across the line of definable brutality and into sadistic quarters with their latest scandal. Marlene Tapia, who in a federal lawsuit filed this week by the ACLU, says a Bernalillo County corrections officer brutalized her by spraying mace inside her vagina during a strip search.

Florida governor still wants to wast money drug testing the poor

By William Breathes on May 16, 2014 News, Say what?

William Breathes/Toke of the Town.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t seem to get that drug testing welfare recipients isn’t just demoralizing, wrong and illegal — it’s stupid an ineffective. He won’t listen to his constituents and he won’t listen to the federal court system.Weeks after the Supreme Court refused to hear his argument for why all state employees should have to pee in cups, Scott has filed a new brief in appellate court asking to re-argue his right to drug-test all welfare recipients in Florida.

Black Minnesotans way more likely to get arrested for marijuana than whites, report says

By William Breathes on April 22, 2014 News, Say what?

A new report published by Minnesota 2020 reiterates what cannabis activists have been saying for years, in some cases decades — that marijuana reform is not merely a matter of medical necessity but of civil rights.
Relying on FBI statistics from 2011, the progressive think tank found that black Minnesotans are 6.4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites. That figure is twice the national average and mostly represents men under the age of 25.

Polling in NY shows nearly 9 out of 10 support statewide cannabis reform

By Jack Daniel on February 18, 2014 Follow that story, Legalize It

A Quinnipiac University poll released this week says that 88% of New York residents are in favor of legalizing medical marijuana in the state, sparking the debate that perhaps the Empire State is finally ready for a nice heavy dose of indica dominant cannabis. This is up 17% in just two years.

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New York residents are high on the idea of fresh pot laws

Only 9% of New Yorkers are against the idea, but hell, only 39% of residents think that full recreational legalization of weed is a bad idea, with over 57% in favor of just skipping the “medical” step, and making pot legal for all adults.

Indiana state Senator introduces third decriminalization bill in three years

By William Breathes on January 23, 2014 News

Indiana state Sen. Karen Tallian.

Up to two ounces of marijuana would be decriminalized and ticketed similar to a parking ticket in Indiana under a new proposal from state Sen. Karen Tallian. Currently, possession of thirty grams or less is a misdemeanor in the state with up to a year in jail and $5,000 in fines and the loss of your driver’s license. The most jailtime you could face for pot in the state would be eight years for cultivation of over ten pounds.
“We need to stop putting our kids in jail for what is becoming legal all over the country,” Tallian told a local news station this week.

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