Here we go again! Eventually, ALL states will fully legalize pot, BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE! I have spoken with some of our legislators on legalizing Pot, and, WOW, some of them just don’t get it. Excerpts from the Article: Supporters of legal weed hope that New Jersey voters’ overwhelming approval to legalize marijuana will be the final push needed for Delaware lawmakers to do the same, especially if residents end up driving across...

Our friend, Lynn, sent me this article. If  we really want to reduce crime, WE MUST DO MORE OF THESE PROGRAMS! Excerpts from the Article: County leaders will use nearly $665,000 in grant money to reduce gun violence and help ex-prisoners reintegrate. The grants were reviewed and approved Nov. 5 by the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. They were spurred in part by a 2018 Safety and Justice Challenge study paid for by the John D. and...

The Court notes the difference between a vehicle search and the search of a person. Also, the odor of pot alone is not probable cause for a search in the 33 states that have legalized pot.   Excerpts from the Article: The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that the odor of marijuana emanating from a person alone does not provide police with probable cause to support an arrest and warrantless search incident to the arrest. Rasherd Lewis was...

Slowly but surely those in power are seeing the waste, the harm, and the futility of our War on Drugs! 🙂 Drug addicts need treatment, not prison. Excerpts from the Article: The march to decriminalize drugs moved further across the nation on Tuesday despite continued federal prohibition. Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. And in New Jersey and Arizona voters...

ALL states should do this. It just makes sense!     Forty million — that’s the number of criminal charges in Pennsylvania that will be eligible for automatic record sealing starting Friday under the state’s Clean Slate law. While law enforcement will still be able to pull up arrests and convictions, the public — including landlords and most employers — will not. They’ll be hidden as if they never happened. The law...

I’ll be sure to email this article to the prosecutor involved tomorrow – personally! I’ll tell him he’s an asshole and a disgrace to his office. I was a prosecutor for 5 years; the job is to be FAIR.  I cannot believe this one is so stupid!     A federal judge in Tennessee on Friday rejected a federal prosecutor’s attempt to keep a bassist locked up in jail for months over a photo shoot for his anarcho-punk...