The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, meeting as a committee of the whole, voted 42 to 7 to amend the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to decriminalise private possession of marijuana for personal use and casual non-profit distribution. The same week the American Bar Association's House of Delegates resolved, by 122 votes to 70, that there should be no criminal laws punishing simple possession by users.[1]
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References
- The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · chapter 13, pp. 288–289 · ISBN 1891385062
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