[Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council Passes Marijuana Ordinance 7-0

[Jenifer Cartwright]

It'd be good to know how the ordinance is being applied in Champaign, which has a much worse reputation for harsh and differential treatment than Urbana, Campus, or County. Do we have/can we get info on that? Also, I'm curious to know how long this has been in effect in Champaign.
 --Jenifer

--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council Passes Marijuana Ordinance 7-0
To: "Courtwatch Discuss" <discuss at communitycourtwatch.org>, "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 10:50 AM





Why do you say that, Wayne?

 Ricky


"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin




----- Original Message ----
From: E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag>
To: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7:55:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council Passes Marijuana Ordinance 7-0

Why does that surprise you?  
She is more the libertarian sort of republican than the neoconservative kind.

John W. wrote: 

I'm fascinated that the vote was 7-0.  Isn't Tim Johnson's daughter on the Urbana City Council any more?



On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com> wrote:




On Monday night, October 6, 2008, Urbana City Council passed an ordinance giving police officers the discretion to hand out $200 tickets for first-time offenders caught with less than 10 grams of marijuana (30 grams is an ounce - and a felony). 
Such an ordinance is already on the books in Champaign.
A sticking point in the new policy was whether discretion would be mandated in attempt to prevent racial preferences.
The worry is that, for example, students "with a future" would get a ticket for possession, while local black youth presumably "going nowhere" would go to jail.
No such written policy was put on paper. 
Urbana City Council members Brandon Bowersox and David Gehrig said they would track statistics in the coming year to see if the ordinance is being fairly applied. 
BD
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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com

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