Public Reacts to Gov. Rick Perry’s Recreational Marijuana Comments

Published April 19, 2014

Public reacts to Gov. Rick Perry’s recreational marijuana comments — His office says he doubts, however, that it will be legalized here any time soon, and that he still favors rehab and diversionary programs for minor offenders.

Criminal records leave mentally ill struggling to succeed
Going through the court diversion program has encouraged him to take part in mental health and drug abuse treatment. Among his biggest challenges now are finding a job with his criminal record and lacking transportation. Glen Yerkey, 26, speaks to …
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One woman's struggle to overcome a life of prostitution
In recent months, she's been attending daily drug-rehab meetings, and to get her daughter back, she enrolled in a class for domestic-violence victims. But she knows that's … Jackie, now 9, slept in the front room on a couch in the dank Florida heat …
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