Judges’ views on marijuana legalization look like the public’s—with one significant exception 07/20/2017 |
A sample of the comments (all left anonymously):
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“I’ve never sentenced a cocaine or heroin addict that didn’t start with marijuana.”
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“90 percent of felons I ever sentenced started their journey to addiction with marijuana.”
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“As a drug court judge, almost every one of my participants, when asked, stated marijuana was their gateway drug.”
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“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?”
judges, National Judicial College, Drug Court |