Ehlich rox da Ganj?

[MKSheppard]

Oops. Typo



All hail Bob Ehrlich our Governor of MD, who reduced penalties for pot!

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n805/a08.html?229

EHRLICH BUCKS BUSH, SIGNS MARIJUANA BILL

MD. Becomes 9th State To Reduce Penalties For Medical Use Of Drug

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. ignored pressures from the White House drug office and signed legislation that significantly reduces criminal penalties for people with AIDS and others who smoke marijuana to mitigate their pain.

The law, which takes effect Oct. 1, will allow individuals using marijuana for medicinal purposes to make a "medical necessity" defense against charges of marijuana possession. If caught, users will now only pay a fine of no more than $100; previously, they faced a maximum penalty of a year in prison and/or a $1,000 fine.

Maryland joins eight other states that have reduced or eliminated penalties for medicinal marijuana users. Gov. Ehrlich is the first Republican to sign such a law.

[MKSheppard]

Bob Ehrlich ROCKS



He actually visited Israel as governor of MD and met with Arik himself

[Hamel]

Huk huk

If you show that you use it for medicinal reasons then why the fuck should you pay a fine? That doesn't make any cok sense

It would make far more sense to apply the reduced fine to recreational users and let the sickly people get off without robbing them of a single penny

[Pablo Sanchez]

Oops. Typo

Fixed it for ya. I won't have pissing matches on my watch, guys.

[MKSheppard]

Maryland taxpayers will not pay for an Ehrlich administration plan to pay parolees not to commit crimes, a state official says.

The parolee-pay program will use only private donations and grants, and "at no point would taxpayer money be used," said Mark Vernarelli, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional System.

Under the new plan, non-violent parolees and probationers would receive $10 to $25 each month they stay out of trouble. The initiative will be funded by a $50,000 grant from the Abell Foundation in Baltimore.

Wow, and this is our first Republican Governor in 30+ Years.

[Wicked Pilot]

If you show that you use it for medicinal reasons then why the fuck should you pay a fine? That doesn't make any cok sense

The federal government won't make marijuana legal for medicinal reasons, so the only way states can counter this is by simply not enforcing the laws, or reducing the punishments to irrelevance. In other words, Bob Ehrlich just told the feds to piss off.


By the way, what does this have to do with the Democrats?