Pubdate: Tue, 29 Oct 2002
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
Copyright: 2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Contact:  http://www.seattle-pi.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/408

SEATTLEITES WILL VOTE ON DEPRIORITIZING MARIJUANA CRIMES

An initiative that would make marijuana arrests and prosecutions the lowest 
priority for Seattle will head to the September 2003 ballot.

The City Council declined yesterday to vote Initiative 75 into law or to 
offer an alternative measure. Instead, it chose to send the issue to voters 
next year.

The initiative would require the Seattle Police Department and the City 
Attorney's Office to make cases involving adult personal use of marijuana 
the lowest priority for police.
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