Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who boldly declared last month that the war on drugs has failed, said she’s talked with Chicago’s new police Supt. Garry McCarthy about halting arrests for low-level drug possession offenses.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who boldly declared last month that the war on drugs has failed, said she’s talked with Chicago’s new police Supt. Garry McCarthy about halting arrests for low-level drug possession offenses.
“It’s pretty well known within the criminal justice system that the judges will dismiss those charges [involving] very modest amounts of illicit drugs,” she said.“I suggested to him that although the law is pretty clear that such possession is a violation of the law, that since the judges routinely and almost universally dismiss such low-level drug charges that the police might stop arresting people for this since it clogs up our jail and these people their cases will be dismissed out anyway,” Preckwinkle told reporters after Wednesday’s Cook County Board meeting.
Look, we're all in favor of streamlining the court system and making sure real evil-doers get punished. And we realize that small amounts of weed don't seem to be that big a deal, but the face remains marijuana is still illegal. If you want to reduce the court backlog and save money, go the full route and advocate legalization, not this half assed surrender. Stop being a political hack...oh wait. We see the problem.
If we had our way, only high potency weed would be legally sold because the more you smoke, the more sterile you become and you eventually breed the abuser out of existence. At least, that's the theory.