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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Fritchey ? Shuftan made his comments after Commissioners John Fritchey and Luis Arroyo Jr.  both Chicago Democrats  announced they would introduce a resolution next week to put the question on the March 20 primary ballot.
After his announcement   Fritchey  made the rounds of the county boardroom at an unrelated committee meeting  asking for support.
A longtime advocate of making recreational marijuana use legal   Fritchey  pointed to the legalization and taxation of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington. State and local governments in Illinois could expect to bring in $500 million a year in pot taxes based on those statesâ experiences   he  said.
âItâs about unclogging a court system that is overburdened â  Fritchey  said. âIf we can take these cases out of the court system  we will be doing a tremendous service not just to the individuals but to the court system as well.â
âAlmost 90 percent of these cases get dismissed  doing nothing but leaving individuals with an arrest record â  he  added. âWe are wasting court resources. We are damaging lives. And we have the ability to do better.â
Fritchey â a former state lawmaker â also said  he  hoped a successful ballot question in Cook County would spur legislators to take a vote on a potentially thorny issue during an election year in 2018.
Sen. Heather Steans and Rep. Kelly Cassidy  both of whom like  Fritchey  live on the cityâs North Side  introduced legislation in March to allow the possession of up to 28 grams of pot  or about an ounce  and to grow five plants. Their proposals call for a tax of $50 an ounce  plus the standard state 6.25 percent sales tax. Local governments like the city and county collect their own sales taxes  so they likely also would bring in more money as a result of legalization.

A: Neutral
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity David Inscho ? The recent settlement capped a case that began with a descent into depression and paranoia in Janene Wallace's late twenties and eventually resulted in imprisonment  a nearly three-month stint in solitary confinement and finally  a death by hanging   family attorney David Inscho  said.
At the time of  her  suicide  the George W. Hill Correctional Facility was run by private prison operator Community Education Centers but the company was recently acquired by another prison operator called The GEO Group. Pablo Paez  a representative for The GEO group  declined to comment on the litigation but said that "GEO was in no way involved with the management of the facility at the time of these allegations."
Wallace then refused to bathe  made irrational statements  rubbed menstrual blood on a shower wall and accused the guards of trying to hurt her  according to emails between officials at the facility that were provided by  Inscho . She was placed in solitary confinement and a sign was put on her door that warned that she was "unstable" and instructed staffers to "use caution."
"What she needed was a mental health evaluation and mental health treatment. That never happened "  Inscho  said. "She was mentally ill. She needed help."
After more than 50 days in solitary  which included a guard telling her to "go ahead and choke yourself" following a threat from Wallace that  Inscho  said was made after a period of 85 hours of uninterrupted confinement  she hung herself from a vent with her bra.
David Byrne  warden of the Hill facility  did not immediately respond to a voicemail seeking comment about Wallace's death. But  according to a transcript of a deposition provided by  Inscho   he has admitted that something went wrong.

A: Positive
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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Botticelli ? âIt forced the office to take a policy position that it may or may not agree to â Michael Botticelli  the former director of the drug czarâs office  told HuffPost. â[It] hamstrings you into a policy position that might be the policy of the day but that might change.â
The statute also made answering questions about marijuana policy complicated. When  Botticelli  was a deputy within the office  Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced legislation to remove the by-then-controversial language on marijuana. The bill went nowhere.  Botticelli  struggled even to answer questions on the subject.
Operating within these political and legal constraints   Botticelli  and others adopted more nuanced approaches to their work. The office pushed to obtain more federal funding for treatment. It supported states that sought to route those addicted to illegal substances like opioids away from the criminal justice system and into treatment.  Botticelli  supported the Justice Departmentâs efforts to shed the more onerous drug war era initiatives such as requiring mandatory minimum sentences for even low-level drug possession.
Later in that interview   Botticelli  was asked about legalizing marijuana  not just decriminalizing penalties for its use.  He  said  he  was against statesâ commercializing the drug. âIt becomes an addiction to  unfortunately  a tax revenue thatâs often based on bad public health policy â  he  said.  His  predecessor had had similar reservations about outright legalizing marijuana.
 The closest Botticelli  came to addressing the decriminalization issue directly occurred when District of Columbia residents voted to ease restrictions on marijuana use. âI might not agree about legalization  but I do agree with our own ability to spend our own money the way that we want to â  he  said.
Neither  Botticelli  nor  his  office would go much further than that during the eight years of the Obama presidency. Had they done so  they would have incurred blowback from both parties in Congress and alienated drug prevention advocates who oppose marijuana use. More importantly  the controversy would likely have distracted from the more critical opioid epidemic. That crisis ended up driving home the argument for a public health approach to drug addiction.

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