Lorenzo Jones is executive director of A Better Way Foundation, an organization dedicated to shifting drug policies in Connecticut from a criminal justice to a public health approach. He can be reached at lrn8jn@aol.com.

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Compassion and Racial Justice, or Criminalization? It's in Gov. Rell's Hands

Posted June 14, 2007 | 03:23 PM (EST)


Early this month, the Connecticut State Senate passed House Bill 6715, the Compassionate Use Act. The bill passed 23-13 after clearing the House of Representatives 89-58 weeks earlier. The bill is now on its way to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Despite overwhelming public support for medical marijuana in CT --...

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