The overflow of marijuana cases has led to an erratic enforcement of the law. Con men know how to slide through the system, and armed dealers sometimes face lesser penalties than people randomly caught on the street with a few bucks–worth of weed.
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Police to lighten up on pot possessors . . . maybe
Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy made a lot of headlines—and caused a lot of confusion—when he recently told reporters that the department was looking into the possibility of issuing citations to people caught with small amounts of marijuana (rather than hauling them to the station to be booked and possibly jailed). “It’s not that we’re […]