Submitted by Illinoisnoki1 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:22

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Posted by Mick Dumke on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at the Reader

Cook County commissioner John Fritchey and three Chicago aldermen will hold a press conference Thursday morning to call on Chicago and suburban police to issue tickets instead of making arrests for the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

"The simple truth is that the decades-long policies that we have had toward possession of small amounts of marijuana have failed to do anything other than fill our jails with non-violent offenders, strain our budgets, and according to some studies, even cause an increase in more serious crime," Fritchey said in a prepared statement.

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