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Related: About this forumLower penalty for minor pot infraction, Iowa senators say
DES MOINES Penalties would be reduced for possession of small amounts of marijuana under a proposal that passed a key step Monday at the Iowa Capitol.
A first offense of possessing 5 grams or fewer of marijuana would be downgraded from a serious misdemeanor to a simple misdemeanor under legislation approved by the Iowa Senate.
That means the penalty would decrease from up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 to up to 30 days in jail and a fine up to $625.
This changes the point of entry in the court system, Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, said. Minuscule residue levels like this might be better for a magistrate court.
Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/lower-penalty-for-minor-marijuana-infraction-iowa-senators-say-20190401
msongs
(70,086 posts)TexasTowelie
(116,497 posts)confiscate their cellphone to track down the dealer of that demon weed.
Canoe52
(2,963 posts)How Middle Ages of them.
IADEMO2004
(5,853 posts)Plague of Fox/GOP and hate radio in the population needs a cure.
rurallib
(63,152 posts)that Iowa which was once viewed as a fairly common sense type of state is now viewed as a backwater of civilization fighting with Mississippi and Alabama for the bottom.
She asked me why and I listed pretty much what you posted there. Pretty much all of that except the radio has happened since the Return of the Branstad.
He took the fucking Republican sledgehammer to our state and walked away. And left us as a backwater state.
IADEMO2004
(5,853 posts)Soon a baby born in Iowa and ready to go home must have a car seat social security number and handgun.