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Judges’ views on marijuana legalization look like the public’s—with one significant exception

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Judges’ views on marijuana legalization look like the public’s—with one significant exception [1]
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

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A sample of the comments (all left anonymously):

  • “I’ve never sentenced a cocaine or heroin addict that didn’t start with marijuana.”
  • “90 percent of felons I ever sentenced started their journey to addiction with marijuana.”
  • “As a drug court judge, almost every one of my participants, when asked, stated marijuana was their gateway drug.”
  • “I have been assigned to drug cases for 11 years and was a police officer for 32 years. Every conversation I had with people on hard drugs, they always started with marijuana. Why do we want to do this with our citizens?”

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[3] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/national-judicial-college
[4] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/drug-court