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TexasTowelie

(116,875 posts)
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 03:10 AM Apr 2019

Lower 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

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Canoe52

(2,963 posts)
3. The 28 grams I just purchased here in Washington State would get me some serious time there.
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 04:09 AM
Apr 2019

How Middle Ages of them.

IADEMO2004

(5,885 posts)
4. Dark Age. Voting rights and registration, Women's Rights, Medicaid mess, Steve King
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:11 AM
Apr 2019

Plague of Fox/GOP and hate radio in the population needs a cure.

rurallib

(63,207 posts)
5. Was talking to a state senator last week and told her
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 08:10 PM
Apr 2019

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

(5,885 posts)
6. Mental health, Judicial nominations, Education...... long troubling list
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 09:06 PM
Apr 2019

Soon a baby born in Iowa and ready to go home must have a car seat social security number and handgun.

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