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With Washington’s Drug Possession Law Gone, Lawmakers at Odds Over Next Steps

March 5, 2021 Editor Leave a comment

by Ben Adlin


On Wednesday of last week, it was a felony in Washington to possess illegal drugs — even if you didn’t know you had them. A day later, it wasn’t. After a sweeping Washington Supreme Court ruling declared the state’s felony drug possession law unconstitutional, there’s currently no penalty on the books in Washington State for drug possession.

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