Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

City of Washington D.C. Decriminalizes Cannabis

posted by azrael on Saturday July 19 2014, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the finally-ok-to-inhale dept.

gewg_ writes:

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?

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
City of Washington D.C. Decriminalizes Cannabis | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 18 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2014, @05:40AM (#71428)

    ergotimine
    It's thought by some that that's the stuff that caused those chicks to freak out in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s. [wikipedia.org]
    (Eating moldy rye bread got them executed for "witchcraft".)

    There was an outbreak of ergotism in France as recently as 1951 (also on that page).

    -- gewg_