Time to reform CT’s marijuana laws

On an ill-remembered night about one year ago, John and I randomly decided to research Connecticut’s marijuana laws, you know, in preparation for the unlikely event of ever sampling marijuana. The familiar logo of NORML popped up first on a Google search, and one click sent us spinning through a bad trip of draconian laws, all designed to imprison people for indulging in a plant. For those Argus readers who need clarification, NORML is an acronym for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws; the information they post on state-by-state marijuana laws is 100% legit. Connecticut’s laws don’t seem too harsh—only up to ONE YEAR of imprisonment for possession of a “useable amount” (vague) until you consider what mandatory minimums mean. Mandatory minimums mean that, if you’re caught by the police selling weed in Low or High Rise, you will go to jail for three years. They mean that if you’re caught selling weed to a prefrosh under the age of eighteen, you will go to jail for three years. Our brains were jolted into an epiphany: we must make this information available, using the convenient connections of a NORML chapter. And with the added skills of Nate and after being initially rejected by the WSA and after finally getting recognition from the school and from the Washington NORML office this fall, we are doing just that. If you believe in advocacy, if you believe “victimless crime” is a bullshit concept, if you believe in one of the government’s great not-so-hidden conspiracies, or just the medical-industrial complex, come to PAC 004 on Wednesdays at 4:20.