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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Marijuana advocates continue to press case with Athens-Clarke County commissioners 🌿Marijuana advocates continue to press case with Athens-Clarke County commissioners
True to their word, a group of young advocates for local liberalization of marijuana possession laws rolled into City Hall for Tuesday’s meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Commission, once again arguing for a “parallel ordinance” allowing police officers the discretion to determine whether someone found in possession of marijuana should simply be cited and fined, or arrested and taken to jail.
“We’re not going to give up,” one of the young people told commissioners Tuesday. Since March, the group, affiliated with the Athens Campaign for Access, Reform and Education — part of Georgia C.A.R.E., a group working to “end marijuana prohibition in Georgia” — has been a regular presence at the commission’s monthly voting meeting.
At those meetings, the young people make their way to the microphone during a public comment period to argue for the parallel ordinance, citing, among other things, concerns that under current state law, a relatively...
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