ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s legislature apparently won’t eliminate criminal penalties for marijuana possession this year, but a House committee isn’t ruling it out for the future.

The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill Wednesday creating a task force to study decriminalization that would make a recommendation by June 30, 2016.

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