Marijuana Law is an Injustice

 In the article "Marijuana law just creates criminal" by Hakeem Jeffries talks about the how many people in  New York were arrested last year for possessing small amounts of marijuana. In which people did not know that the government changed the law concerning marijuana and how much you can possess in the privacy of your pocket in public. The policy that police use called "stop and frisk" is when they stop people, question them, then they are searched or frisked to see if they have the drug on them.
   The article is a self-opinion article so most of the quotes are from Jeffries himself. The quote from him that stood out the most to me was "Given the change of law in 1977, had the marijuana remained in the person's pocket, possession would not have been a crime at all." This shows that the government is being unfair in this rule because the people are only doing what the police told them to do but if they hadn't showed them what was in their pocket then they would have never known that they had marijuana.
  I think that having or smoking marijuana is wrong. Though to have the police investigate you for something they probably wouldn't have known you had, without knowing that they do this, is just as wrong as having the marijuana. They should have made the law known because it was not right to not inform the people that this law was implemented on them.
  This article makes me think that the government can just be really sneaky sometimes. Marijuana is wrong and everything but not telling your people that you implemented a new law is wrong too. Though I also understand there reasons for not telling the public about this law due to they would try and hide the marijuana in a better place whenever they are out in the public. Though i dont understand why people just cant be honest about things. It's a shame really. I really hope that once in a blue moon we can have some honest people with honest answers.