Lawmakers in Maine are considering legislative changes that would remove criminal penalties for drug possession. The changes would mean that those who get caught with the drugs might instead just pay a fine or be required to undergo some health assessment.
Oregon Became 1st State to Decriminalize Most Drugs
Previously Oregon was the first state to move ahead with decriminalizing most drugs and there could be other states that follow in the same path. Filling up prisons with people for personal habits and drug use does the community no good, it takes valuable resources away that could be used elsewhere. It also brings danger to communities, splits apart families, and causes suffering and pain to those who are only trying to pursue their own peaceful activities that don't bother anyone else.
We've seen police harass stage 4 cancer patients by searching their hospital rooms for cannabis in the past. The war on drugs hasn't worked, will never work, was arguably never meant to work, and is more a war on individual liberty than anything else.
There are hundreds of people who get charged in Maine every year still for drug possession and changing those rules might mean just making money off of those actions instead of ruining the persons life over it.