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State Chapters => State Politics/Government => Topic started by: bigheadfred on December 27, 2016, 03:36:21 pm
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TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a law which sent many young people to prison for using marijuana.
Being charged with possession and consumption of marijuana will no longer land you in jail in Georgia, after the Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled it unconstitutional to use sanctions prescribed by the law for consumption, purchase, possession and cultivation of the plant for individual purposes.
The Court made its decision based on a lawsuit filed by the Public Defender’s Office, demanding to suspend the penalty of imprisonment, as it is an ‘irrelevant, too strict and degrading’ form of punishment.
http://dfwatch.net/constitutional-court-decides-prison-is-too-harsh-punishment-for-marijuana-use-47065