Due to a technicality, it may soon be impossible to enforce misdemeanor marijuana laws in our nation's capital. As Gawker points out, a law was passed in May that decriminalizedpot in the D.C. area, reducing fines of possessing less than an ounce to a minuscule $25. After the bill passed, however, House Rep. Andy Harris amended a bill with the intention of stopping the local policy from going into effect.
In a strange turn of events, however, Harris' amendment is now part of a spending bill will likely be delayed due to a companion bill that needs to pass the Senate. However, the aforementioned D.C. pot law will still go into effect next month. The result would be that D.C. still effectively decriminalizes pot, but loses the funding to enforce the new law:
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[via Gawker and The Washington Post]
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