San Marcos activists target TXST students in push to decriminalize marijuana
Kelly Higgins, Democratic candidate for Hays County district attorney, talks Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, on the Texas State University campus about a measure on San Marcos’ Nov. 8 ballot to decriminalize some lower-level marijuana charges.SAN MARCOS — Activists are turning to Texas State University students to increase voter turnout in San Marcos as part of a push to decriminalize low-level marijuana offenses.
Decriminalizing marijuana in San Marcos and other cities would mean that there would be no tickets or arrests for Class A and B misdemeanor possession. It would prevent the police from testing the THC content of the substance. Additionally, police would no longer be able to make arrests based on the odor of marijuana.
In San Marcos, activists said they noticed the need to get Texas State students registered to vote in recent months when collecting signatures to get the decriminalization proposition on the ballot. More than 11,000 people, many of them students, signed on, but fewer than 5,000 of those signatures could count toward the effort because people’s voter registrations were not up to date.
“No one should be incarcerated or locked up or have to go through the complicated legal system for minor possession of marijuana,” Cross said during a Monday news conference about the launch of the student-focused, get-out-the-vote campaign. “It is traumatizing, it is expensive, it is complicated. People should not have to go through that.”
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