If you have an ounce of pot on you, make it two, and the police pull you over and discover the dope under your front seat – “That $#%@ belongs to my girlfriend, bro” – then you should probably hope you’re in Pharr, because under a new policy adopted last month by the PD, you’ll most likely be released, given a future court-appearance date, as opposed to an immediate trip to the city jail in handcuffs.
Named the “Cite-and-Release policy,” it allows officers in the field the option to release a person with less than 2 ounces of marijuana, as opposed ...