Cook County Voters to be Asked Next Year About Legalizing Marijuana

December 13, 2017
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Cook County voters will get their say on whether recreational marijuana use should be made legal for adults in Illinois, after commissioners on Wednesday voted to put that question on the March primary ballot.

Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the advisory referendum, which also has the support of board President Toni Preckwinkle, a longtime critic of the war on drugs. She maintains that current drug laws have a disparate impact on minorities — causing them to languish in jail on minor charges for lack of bail money and giving them a record that makes it hard to land a job. [Read More at the Chicago Tribune]

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