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The Conservative government is looking at softening Canada's marijuana laws by allowing police to write tickets for small - scale possession cases instead of laying charges.

There's the report that «Whites and blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rates; on average, however, blacks are 3.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for possession,» and that «blacks are more than 10 times as likely as whites to go to prison for drug offenses.»

I've never been arrested or around marijuana at all except when I arrested someone for possession.

A 24 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and drug - paraphernalia possession after 3 grams of marijuana and a «one - hitter» pipe were found April 7 at Orland Square Mall.

A 23 - year - old Frankfort woman was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and drug paraphernalia possession after 1.3 grams of marijuana and a glass marijuana pipe were discovered during an early morning May 14 traffic stop at LaGrange Road and 171st Street.

A 19 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis and drug - paraphernalia possession after one - half gram of marijuana and a marijuana pipe were discovered during an April 15 traffic stop at Highwood and Brookhill drives.

Two 18 - year - old Buffalo Grove men were arrested June 6 at 10:27 p.m. in the 1100 block of Windbrooke Drive and charged with possession of marijuana.

In their report, the organization found that the NYPD made more marijuana possession arrests under de Blasio and former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton from 2015 to 2016 than former Mayor Giuliani and Bratton, who was doing his first stint as the city's top cop at the time, from 1994 to 1996.

The vast majority of people who are arrested for marijuana possession are of color, while usage of whites is largely at comparable levels, Nixon said.

------------------------------- Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 40 year old Gloria Prott of Southhaven on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving while ability impaired by drugs, speeding at 80 miles an hour in a 55 zone and operating a motor vehicle with an open container of an alcoholic beverage, following a traffic stop on State Highway 17 in the Town of Hancock.

The filing takes aim at one element of the department's controversial stop - and - frisk policy and comes after a failed bid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana, which would have eliminated the distinction between having a small amount in a pocket and holding it in your hand.

Johnson is charged with a felony count of criminal possession of marijuana and is held at the Erie County Holding Center pending his arraignment in Buffalo City Court.

The act would empower the State Liquor Authority with oversight, set the legal age for possession and consumption at 18, and allow legal possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana.

At the press conference, they called for individuals to receive summonses for low - level marijuana possession instead of being arrested.

At a City Council hearing on Monday, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the Committee on Justice Systems, asked the city's five district attorneys to decline to prosecute individuals who are arrested for low - level marijuana possession for misdemeanors.

That was the ethic that led NYPD stops and frisks to soar from 80,000 in 2002 to 685,000 in 2011, with 87 percent concentrated among blacks and Latinos and 88 percent of them uncovering no criminal behavior at all (even possession of small amounts of marijuana).

At the same time, arrests for marijuana use / possession and admissions to substance use disorder treatment programs have decreased.

Even if his 1948 arrest for marijuana possession and subsequent two months served at a prison farm hardly seem scandalous today, Mitchum never gave off the impression of a glamorous actor putting on airs.

Illegally using, possessing, or being under the influence of a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property or at a school function, including having such substance on a person in a locker, vehicle, or other personal space; selling or distributing a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property; finding a controlled substance or marijuana, on school property that is not in the possession of any person; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the lawful administration of a prescription drug on school property.

N.F.L. player and New England Patriots safety Darrell Hammond was arrested at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica for possession of Marijuana.

On Wednesday, Seattle's city attorney, a former federal prosecutor, and a city councilman who used to be a police officer all testified in support of a bill that would legalize the sale, possession and delivery of marijuana for adults over 21 years old — and, in theory at least, generate millions of dollars from taxes on the product.

If you are being charged with possession of marijuana, please contact The Cochran Firm online or call our drug possession defense attorneys at [phone] to schedule a free and informative consultation today.

He had also achieved great amounts of success that included securing an acquittal at trial for a client charged with possessing a controlled substance, obtaining a discharge for a client charged with domestic assault when the Crown wanted a conviction and permanent criminal record, and drafting an appeal factum that resulted in the overturning of a conviction for possession of marijuana on grounds that the client's Charter right to speak to a lawyer was violated.

«I don't think that people should anticipate that the backlog of the courts is largely due to prosecutions from minor possessions of marijuana,» says Edward Prutschi, partner at Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman Criminal Litigation, when asked whether legalizing marijuana will assist in dealing with court delays.

The genesis of Collings» ire was Sullivan's arrest July 13 by rangers at the Cape Cod National Seashore for marijuana possession.

The legal scene regarding marijuana is changing rapidly and if you or someone you know is being charged with drug cultivation, possession, distribution or sales you should immediately seek the services of a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney at Lessem, Newstat & Tooson, LLP.

At the Kostopoulos Law Group, we have successfully defended clients against a variety of criminal charges including assault, battery, marijuana possession, identity theft, shoplifting, sex crimes, theft, weapons possession, white collar crime, and more.

The criminal defense lawyers at Strom Law Firm L.L.C. handle all types of drug cases, from Simple Possession of Marijuana to Conspiracy to Traffic in large quantities of illegal narcotics.

While the appellant in the present case had 3 documented incidents of misconduct during pre-sentence detention (marijuana odour in cell, possession of contraband and making a gross insult at another person), there was not enough evidence to justify denying enhanced credit:

At Kostopolous Law Group, our marijuana possession defense attorneys have years of experience working with clients who have been arrested for having small amounts of marijuana and keeping their criminal records clean.

At Rosenthal & Wadas we have a two - pronged approach to defending marijuana possession arrests.

The driver, while not impaired at the time, was found to have been in possession of a small amount of marijuana although it he did not actually have it on his person at the time of the accident.

There is also a misconception that people are not charge or prosecuted for possession marijuana; they are — at an ever increasing rate.

One example is the law passed by Congress 21 USC 841 which prohibits production, sale or possession of marijuana: prosecutions have been suspended at the federal level by executive - branch decision, in certain states (Washington, Colorado, others no doubt).

When I look at the court dockets there tends to be a lot of arrests for possession of marijuana and DWI.

If you are facing charges for marijuana possession, manufacture, or trafficking, call All Family Law Group, P.A. at 813-672-1900 or email us to schedule an initial free consultation to discuss your options.