It’s a good idea to keep pot cases out of county courts

From READING EAGLE EDITORIAL:

From the beginning, perhaps it is important to stress that Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams is not proposing the legalization of marijuana in Pennsylvania…

What Adams is proposing, however, is a dramatic change in the way we handle pot cases, especially those that deal with a small quantity that obviously was intended for personal use. He wants to have the option of allowing them to be handled by district judges rather than the judges in county court…

According to Berks County Court figures, such cases account for about 300 of the 6,516 criminal cases last year, or about 4.6 percent…

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