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Re:An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin’s E... by ObviousScience on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:41PM (#8811097)
Actually, in 2003, the voters passed an initiative mandating that police lower their enforcement of marijuana in Seattle[1].

[1] http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Two-years-later-littl...

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Re:An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin’s E... by modeless on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:50PM (#8811141)
That's true, but marijuana was still illegal, and some people were still prosecuted. Ultimately the ones deciding who would be arrested and who would be ignored on a case-by-case basis were the police.
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