Court Rules for Immigrant in Deportation Case Over Drug Offense.
“The social sharing of a small amount of marijuana” by immigrants lawfully in the United States does not require their automatic deportation.
“Sharing a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration, let alone possession with intent to do so, does not fit easily into the everyday understanding of trafficking, which ordinarily means some sort of commercial dealing,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a seven-justice majority, partly quoting from an earlier case.
The case arose from a traffic stop in Georgia in 2007 during which Adrian Moncrieffe, a Jamaican citizen, was found with 1.3 grams of marijuana — “the equivalent,” Justice Sotomayor wrote, “of about two or three marijuana cigarettes.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/us/supreme-court-ruling-on-marijuana-and-deportation.html?hp
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