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Earlier this week, Alderman Danny Solis (25th) with co-sponsor Alderman Joe Moreno (1st) introduced local legislation to Chicago’s City Council that makes possession of small amounts of marijuana an ordinance violation. The idea is that any person caught by the Chicago Police with less than 10 grams of marijuana will not be arrested for misdemeanor possession; instead the person will simply be ticketed with a [...]

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By: Kelly Cass During the early morning hours of Sunday, March 13, New York City Police responded to a 911 call for what they believed was a relatively routine domestic incident: a woman had a fight with her ex-boyfriend and she was worried about her safety. When four officers arrived on the scene, the woman told them she had gotten into a fight with her [...]

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By: Kelly Cass In September, Jared Loughner (the man accused of a shooting massacre in Tucson that left six dead), decided to expunge (the legal term for remove or erase) a drug paraphernalia charge from his criminal record in Arizona. Loughner was arrested in 2007 for possession of drug paraphernalia. The judge sentenced him to a diversion program, which he successfully completed. The New York [...]

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