and rescue workers search for victims amid the rubble of a destroyed building following Saudi airstrikes on a funeral site in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on October 8, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Yemen has seen almost daily military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with the UN putting the toll at 10,000. The offensive was launched to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement and its allies and reinstate the resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said in August that the death toll from the Saudi military aggression could rise even further as some areas had no medical facilities, and that people were often buried without any official record being made.per the Defender Association of Philadelphia, those penalties have landed at least 1,000 people in prison. And according to a 2017 Vera Institute report, it costs $42,000 to incarcerate one person for a year.

And from 2011 to 2014, 20 percent of admissions to city drug treatment programs were for marijuana. The city spent nearly $30 million in 2014 for 8,363 admissions to drug treatment programs — 1,844 of them for marijuana.

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Green, an at-large councilperson, brought his case to council in a resolution passed on April 12.

Specifically, it asked the city’s Committee on Law and Government to host hearings on eliminating testing for THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and the penalties associated with a positive result.

The hearings, Green said, will provide information from criminal justice