US DC: OPED: Let’s Stop Wrecking Lives Over A Bag Of Weed

Washington Post, 26 May 2013 – For young people denied jobs, crime and public assistance become far more enticing. Marijuana laws create a permanent underclass unable to join the legitimate workforce. In a little office on the third floor of Metropolitan Police Headquarters on Indiana Avenue NW is a small window to the future – open to some, closed to many. This is where you get your D.C. “police clearance.”