TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 31, 2017
Tennessee House Criminal Justice Committee Chairman William Lamberth, R-Cottontown, filed a bill on Monday to repeal the partial marijuana decriminalization laws passed in Nashville and Memphis last year, the Tennessean reports. The bill would not only repeal the local ordinances, it would also prevent local governments from creating their own sanctions for drug possession moving forward. The Memphis and Nashville ordinances give police the option of handing out lighter citations for possession of small amounts of marijuana.