Philadelphia Set to Decriminalize Marijuana
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 9th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Philadelphia Set to Decriminalize Marijuana
The Nutter administration and City Councilman James Kenney have a reached a compromise on a bill that will reduce penalties for possession of marijuana in Philadelphia. People caught possessing fewer than 30 grams of marijuana, or just over an ounce, would be issued a citation and fined $25. City Councilman James Kenney argued that marijuana arrests were unfairly impacting African Americans — Philadelphia police arrested 4,336 people for marijuana possession last year, 83 percent of them black — while wasting valuable police time.