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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Law Enforcement Against Prohibition weighs in on New Hampshire marijuana decriminalization 🌿Law Enforcement Against Prohibition weighs in on New Hampshire marijuana decriminalization
As the Senate takes up the latest attempt to decriminalize marijuana in New Hampshire, proponents brought in a new ally to lend a voice to their cause: the head of a national coalition of law enforcement officials advocating for drug policy reform.
“Decriminalizing marijuana possession by passing HB 618 is a necessary step in the right direction,” Neill Franklin, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, wrote in a recent letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. “The less time that we as law enforcement spend arresting and prosecuting marijuana users, the more time we can spend keeping our streets safe from violent crime. LEAP strongly supports decriminalizing marijuana to free up limited police resources to deal with more serious crimes.”
Franklin, who spent more than 30 years working with the Baltimore Police Department and the Maryland State Police before joining LEAP, spoke alongside a group of New Hampshire-based...
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