Tampa is the latest Florida city to decriminalize marijuana possession
While Florida still considers any person caught holding a little marijuana a low-level criminal, a number of municipalities across the state have made it their mission in recent months to do away with the penalties associated with mi**r possession. The most recent is the city of Tampa, where Mayor Bob Buckhorn has signed a measure into law that will prevent those people busted with small amounts of weed from being thrown in jail.
On Monday, the mayor put his signature on*a popular ordinance that will give the Tampa Police Department the freedom to hand out citations to petty pot offenders instead of running them through the criminal justice system. The new law comes just a week after the city council put their seal of approval on the measure in a vote of 5 to 1, suggesting that any amount of marijuana under 20 grams should be handled with a simple fine. Read more...
03-25-2016, 02:14 AM
Tampa is the latest Florida city to decriminalize marijuana possession
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