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Fun fact: The fine for littering in Washington D.C. is $75 — while the districtap fine for smoking pot in public is only $25.
D.C.’s police chief Cathy Lanier took note of the surprising statistic at a recent speech: “I can’t afford to make jokes about it, but in 24 years of policing, itap a little bit of a shift,” she said, .
The very modern numbers bring up an interesting perspective. In 2015, should local governments be more concerned about littering, a serious but uncontroversial issue, than they are about hot-button marijuana? Let us know what you think in the poll below.
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