ST. LOUIS • The fine for getting caught with a small amount of marijuana has been reduced from a range of $100 to $500 to a maximum of $25 under a new city ordinance.
"For a lot of families in the city of St. Louis, $100 or $500, you might as well ask them for a million dollars," Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, who sponsored the legislation, told the Post-Dispatch.
It passed the St. Louis Board of Aldermen last month 24-0.
Decriminalizing marijuana even further was a topic of debate once again during the board's session, but of two dueling marijuana bills, only Reed's more conservative proposal, slashing the amount users could be fined, made it across the finish line.
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