BALTIMORE (AP) - Baltimore's acting police leader says officers will continue making arrests for pot possession, hours after the city's top prosecutor says her office will no longer prosecute such cases.
Acting Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said Tuesday that Baltimore's officers will keep making arrests for illegal marijuana possession under the law. He says they will only stop doing so if Maryland's legislature ever changes the law to make all possession legal.
Maryland's governor signed legislation in 2014 that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of cannabis. But marijuana possession above small amounts remains illegal in Maryland.
Asked what she would do if police presented her with a pot possession arrest in coming days, State'sProsecutor Marilyn Mosby says her office would "release them without charges."
