Local Attorney discusses what it means for the DOJ to move to reclassify marijuana. A local criminal defense attorney explains what it means for the U.S. Department of Justice to try and reclassify marijuana on the federal level.
"Schedule one is your heavy drugs, your methamphetamines, your fentanyls, your heroin, your cocaine, and marijuana was in that category. Now it's going to a schedule two, which is basically maybe ketamine, anabolic steroids," says Luis Gutierrez, a local criminal defense attorney. "In fact, here in El Paso, it's just site and release on marijuana right now. I think it just cost way too much money to house people and wait for bond reductions and things like that. I have not seen a possession of marijuana case here in El Paso arrest in maybe two years," says Gutierrez.Some people believe reclassifying marijuana at the federal level could benefit the community and state overall.
"I think that's going to benefit everybody, taxpayers, citizens, everybody, because I mean, it's taxable. So it goes back to the government and helps build schools and roads and all that," says Jesus Sanchez, an El Paso resident.
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