D.A.: Philly’s new pot policy just makes sense … and saves dollars

From the DAILY NEWS:

LYNNE ABRAHAM doesn’t get it. She didn’t get it when she was Philadelphia’s district attorney from 1991 until last year…

Her view is that people who smoke marijuana – by far the most widely used illicit drug in the United States – are violent deviants, roaming Philly’s streets with deadly weapons, killing witnesses and committing “untold numbers of crimes” to support their habit…

…Or maybe, as a growing number of politicians and law-enforcement officials now realize, Americans just don’t want to continue paying for the arrest, prosecution and imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders…

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