Gov Rick Perry urges move toward marijuana decriminalization in Texas

[SmokinMom]

Hey, it's a start...this is Texas, ya know.

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Thursday voiced support for softening penalties for marijuana use, and touted his work moving in the direction of decriminalization.
"After 40 years of the war on drugs, I can’t change what happened in the past. What I can do as the governor of the second largest state in the nation is to implement policies that start us toward a decriminalization and keeps people from going to prison and destroying their lives, and that’s what we’ve done over the last decade," Perry said, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Perry made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. While he does not favor legalization, he has supported alternate rehab and drug court programs, his spokeswoman noted.
"Gov. Perry has long supported diversionary and rehabilitative programs, like the drug courts we have in Texas that have proven results," said Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed in a statement to Post Politics.
Perry also said "states should be allowed" to decide whether to legalize marijuana.

 

[lowrider82]

Time will tell if he is talking out his a$$

 

[WeedHopper]

He isnt gonna be in Office long enough to do crap about weed. Like Obama,,that sounds great coming from two guys who arnt running for office.

 

[4u2sm0ke]

Its a start right????..at least they are talking it

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Wow....he looks like Rick Perry, he sounds like Rick Perry, but who is he really?

 

[WeedHopper]

A guy that aint gonna do crap,,and wasnt gonna let Obama get one up on him.

 

[SmokinMom]

Nope he won't be in office long enough to do anything, but hopefully it does get people thinking and talking about it. Time will tell, fingers crossed.

 

[trillions of atoms]

I hope mom...its on the ballot here and in fl....yea come on!