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Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signed a bill decriminalizing marijuana Thursday night, making Delaware the twentieth state to end jail time for possession of small amounts of the drug.

Almost as soon as the Senate passed the bill by a 12-9 vote that same evening, Markell jumped on the opportunity to sign it into law. There was little uncertainty as to Markell’s views, since in March, he wrote a letter to the editor at The New York Times stating that he is “hopeful that [his] state will decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.

The legislation was first forwarded by Democratic Rep. Helene Keeley in the House earlier this month, where it received no support from the GOP. After it passed, Democratic Sen. Margaret Rose Henry, the chair of the Judiciary Committee, sponsored the bill in the Senate.