Baltimore De-Criminalizes Marijuana
January 30, 2019
The Baltimore state attorney has announced that they will no longer prosecute anyone for possessing any amount of marijuana and has asked that 5,000 cases of marijuana possession be vacated. The police union has protested, stating that it will still make arrests. If they enforced this new policy, on the other hand, then the police would have to devote more of their time to arresting real criminals, of which there is an extreme abundance in Baltimore.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is president of the Mises Institute. He is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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