BURLINGTON, Vt. – New numbers reveal wide variation in the approach taken by police departments across the state when it comes to marijuana.

For the last year year, pot smokers have been spared criminal charges if caught with less than an ounce of marijuana. A 2013 law made that a civil offense — like a traffic ticket. But our look at 13 months worth of ticket numbers found departments across the state take different approaches to policing pot.

Law enforcement officers issued 1,521 marijuana possession tickets across the Green Mountains between July first 2013, and the end of July this year. Citations from the Vermont State Police account for about a third of that number.

Officers in Burlington wrote the most tickets — 111. Just behind Burlington — Hartford — a town with a quarter of the Queen City’s population. Police there issued 106 marijuana possession tickets — the second most in the state. No other local department issued more than 49.

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