Chicago’s pot dilemma: Should marijuana users just be ticketed?
		
				The Chicago Sun-Times (US)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
	
	
	Tuesday, November 1, 2011
 Last year, Chicago Police officers arrested more than 23,000 people on  misdemeanor marijuana charges, and most of those cases were dropped.  From 2006 through 2010, cases for possession of less than 2.5 grams of  marijuana were dismissed 97 percent of the time. Eighty-four percent of  pot possession cases involving 2.5 grams to 10 grams were tossed out of  court; and 57 percent involving 10 to 30 grams met the same end,  according to the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Last year, Chicago Police officers arrested more than 23,000 people on  misdemeanor marijuana charges, and most of those cases were dropped.  From 2006 through 2010, cases for possession of less than 2.5 grams of  marijuana were dismissed 97 percent of the time. Eighty-four percent of  pot possession cases involving 2.5 grams to 10 grams were tossed out of  court; and 57 percent involving 10 to 30 grams met the same end,  according to the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court.
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