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Leafly.com reports:
[On Thursday] the United States' capital, Washington D.C. (not to be confused with the state of Washington, which debuted its retail stores last week), officially decriminalizes cannabis. Under the new law, police officers can no longer demand identification from people caught possessing up to one ounce of cannabis, nor can they arrest people if they simply smell cannabis on them. Instead, they will confiscate any "visible contraband" and issue a ticket with a fine of $25.
Possession of amounts greater than one ounce can still result in arrest and being charged with a crime, but this is still a small victory for D.C. residents, especially blacks, who are being penalized and face having their lives ruined over a small amount of cannabis. Now how's about you look into legalization next, Nation's Capital?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Magic Oddball on Saturday July 19 2014, @01:08PM
Try reading up on the history of blacks in the United States... The basic answer is: when a person knows they have virtually no chance of escaping a life of soul-crushing poverty in the ghetto and watching their loved ones get killed in random attacks, they usually don't bother making decisions based on the need to not fuck up their future. At that point, numbing themselves to the despair and finding little bits of pleasure wherever they can becomes their goal.