Buzzed by Cynthia Kuhn

Author:Cynthia Kuhn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

VOICES FOR DECRIMINALIZATION

In 1970, a commission that was formed to take a closer look at marijuana laws recommended that the private possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use no longer be considered an offense, but that selling marijuana or driving under its influence still be punishable. The same year that that report was released, the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association suggested the reduction or elimination of criminal penalties for the possession of very small amounts of marijuana. Soon thereafter, individual states began taking steps to decriminalize marijuana for personal use, and in 1977, President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter called for the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The general view of many who supported decriminalization in the 1970s was that the laws against marijuana were more harmful than the drug itself.

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