Legal marijuana opponents are getting increasingly desperate in their efforts to thwart legalization. Maryland is going green. Last week, the State Senate passed by a margin of 34 to 8 a bill that would decriminalize marijuana in the Old Line State. Governor Martin O’Malley – a potential frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination – said in a statement that he would sign the bill. He said: As a young prosecutor, I once thought that decriminalizing the possession of marijuana might undermine the public will necessary to combat drug violence… I now think that [it] is an acknowledgment of the low priority that our courts, our prosecutors, our police and the vast majority of citizens already attach to this transgression of public order and public […] Read More