Marijuana drops on police priority list in Pa.
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“The nation is clearly taking a long, hard look at this. … There's blowback on the war on drugs,” said Tony Gaskew, a former drug agent and director of the University of Pittsburgh's criminal justice program. “Is it cost effective? We cannot arrest every person that wants to get high.”
More than 4,900 people were jailed in Pennsylvania last year on drug charges involving marijuana, a nearly 5 percent decrease from the 5,157 people sentenced in pot-related cases in 2013, according to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. Meanwhile, jail sentences for heroin increased more than 30 percent, from 3,527 in 2013 to 4,693.
It's a trend experts expect to continue.
As the death toll from heroin...
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