GRAND RAPIDS, MI - City commissioners are voicing support for Grand Rapids Manager Greg Sundstrom's plan to wait on marijuana decriminalization – for at least a few more weeks.

Sundstrom last week changed course and announced that implementation of voter-approved decriminalization will wait until after Kent County Circuit Court hearings on the matter in late April. Third Ward Commissioner James B. White, an outspoken critic of U.S. marijuana laws and the “ridiculous incarceration of our young people,” supports the delay.

“Let’s take the time to implement it correctly. Let’s get it right,” White said. “Otherwise, what you’re going to have is a mess, and I don’t want our citizens caught in a quagmire. I don’t want people caught in a confused situation.

"The people on the commission who were behind it are still behind it, but they realize the same thing I realize."



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In supporting a postponement, White noted that he sees May 1 as “the drop dead date” for implementation of the voter-approved city charter amendment authorizing decriminalization.

Second Ward Commissioner Ruth Kelly echoed that take.

“I’m prepared May 1 (to implement decriminalization),” she said. “If there’s another (court) appeal, we’ve just go to move forward with this.”

Now here’s a roll call of what other Grand Rapids-area cities are dealing with:

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Ottawa County, Taxes up in most communities, down in some



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