College Station City Council Is Asked To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession – WTAW

Public comments during the March 9 College Station city council meeting included a request to decriminalize the possession of misdemeanor amounts of marijuana.

A presentation was made by a representative of a Texas A&M student group “Students for Sensible Drug Policy”. Will Leskowitz said the organization “neither condone nor condemn drug use. But we want to simply educate people and bring change to what we believe are harmful drug laws and instead replace them with empathetic and humane evidence based policies.”

Leskowitz asked the council to consider what is done in Austin, which he says would end citations and arrests for misdemeanor levels of possession in College Station. If there is probable cause, the substance can be seized, and a drug paraphernalia charge would not be issued in lieu of a possession of marijuana charge. Additionally, Leskowitz asked that no city funds or personnel should be used to conduct THC concentration testing.

Leskowitz also said they had local endorsements. Two said that was not correct.

Texas A&M student body president Case Harris told the city council that student government does not support decriminalization.

And College Station municipal judge Ed Spillane gave WTAW News the following statement:

I did not say that at all. I met with the group at the urging of (now retired) council member (John) Crompton. I told them I did not…