Cobb County this week became the latest Metro Atlanta county to announce they would no longer arrest individuals caught with misdemeanor amounts of the drug, and will instead confiscate and destroy it. Cobb joins nearby DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties in relaxing their policy on pot, which comes following the signing of the Hemp Farming Act, which allows for hemp plants containing trace amounts of THC to be produced by licensed growers and possessed by individuals. Hemp, which does not contain enough THC to get a user high, is nearly identical to actual marijuana and can not be told apart by law enforcement officers. While recreational marijuana remains illegal in Georgia, a fact which remains unlikely to change in the 2020 session, a slow but steady relaxation on policing it has supporters of its legalization RISING…
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
