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Joseph Moody: “When you look at decriminalizing possessions of small…”

Featuring: Joseph Moody, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 78

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Criminal Justice The Next Five Years

Published | Video Starts at 32:05

I think that's the population that most people are talking about figuring out how to fix that. Within criminal justice. You know, we took a small stab at it on the local level. When you look at decriminalizing possessions of small amounts of marijuana, now that's locally. It's a local tax cost. That's going to be something that's going to save at the smaller level. But you have a huge amount of the people we talked about sitting in those county jails. (32:05–32:13)

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Asserts that decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana is a local tax cost issue.

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