1.0 link 64198 <![CDATA[Dodd Would Decriminalize Pot]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/12/dodd-would-decriminalize-_n_64198.html Bill Maher handed Chris Dodd a smoking fatty during the HuffPost/Yahoo!/Slate Candidate Mashup, asking a surprise question about legalizing marijuana. To his credit, Dodd didn't pass. He puffed.

"We're cluttering up our prisons, frankly, when we draw distinctions" between booze and pot, Dodd said. "So I would decriminalize, or certainly advocate as president, the decriminalization of statutes that would incarcerate or severely penalize people for using marijuana."

Also harshing Dodd's mellow: racially-biased laws that penalize crack cocaine users more severely than...

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