Report Explores Marijuana Policy in Milwaukee
Mitch Teich with Public Policy Forum president Rob Henken.
Members of a Milwaukee Common Council committee took up a proposal Thursday that could reduce the penalties for first-time offenses for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Advocates say reforms are needed to address disparities in how marijuana laws are enforced and their impact on offenders.
"When you look at the percentage of the population that is African-American versus the percentage of offenders who are actually being picked up by police in Milwaukee and prosecuted, there is a disparity there," says Public Policy Forum president Rob Henken.
The proposal stops well short of other recent reform laws which legalized possession and personal use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, and medical marijuana use in other states.
On Thursday, the Milwaukee-based Public Policy Forum released the first in a series of two reports comparing marijuana policy in Milwaukee with that...
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