New York just became the 23rd state to legalize medicinal marijuana for patients with diseases that include AIDS, cancer and epilepsy. Though these patients are only allowed to obtain non-smokeable forms of Marijuana, laws legalizing medicinal marijuana will inevitably force the public to decriminalize this drug.
For example, Brooklyn’s District Attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, recently acknowledged that his DA’s office wouldn’t prosecute adults who had up to 2 Ounces of marijuana. Similar incidents have been happening in this country, especially where medicinal marijuana has been legalized. What do you think about the growing number of states legalizing this drug?
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“I approve of it, as long as it’s not paraded in the streets, because of the little children,” said Irvin Diggs, 63, a handyman walking by the 79th Precinct station house in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Sylvia Morse, 27, an urban planning graduate walking by the prosecutor’s office downtown, said that while the measure did not eliminate discriminatory police enforcement, “it provides a check and balance.”
Only two of the 12 people we talked to expressed reservations.
A 52-year-old named Ivette said the threshold was too lax. “Smaller quantities, maybe,” she said.
T. Salik, a former corrections officer, said, “You can’t walk down the street with an open container of alcohol. Why should you be able to smoke marijuana openly?”
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