Malloy says it's time to decriminalize minor marijuana use
With Jodi Rell out and Dannel Malloy in as governor, Connecticut finally has a governor with more nuanced, sensible views on marijuana policy, and a real chance to enact common-sense reforms like decriminalization this year.
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For Malloy -- a one-time assistant district attorney in New York City and Stamford's former mayor -- the current approach needlessly ruins lives and is an illogical front in a losing drug war.
"We don't really criminalize alcoholic offenses, by and large, driving while intoxicated aside," Malloy said, referring particularly by under-age drinking. "We handle that very differently than marijuana and we end up stigmatizing kids, creating records and doing things to young people that in the end aren't in their best interests. We start people down a criminal chain," Malloy said.
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