After Massachusetts voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, top law enforcement officials are scrambling to figure out what they need to do to put the law into effect — despite their efforts to defeat it at the polls.
WTF? Did these idiots just presume that God, country and abstinence automatically win?
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who joined all 11 of the state’s district attorneys in opposing the ballot question, said Wednesday she was working to determine exactly what it will require the legal system to do.
“Question 2’s passage not only authorizes the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana, but also establishes a parallel civil regulatory structure that does not currently exist,” Coakley said in a written statement.
Massachusetts becomes the 12th state in the country to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. The measure passed Tuesday with 65 percent of voters supporting it and 35 percent opposed.
Under the state constitution, a ballot question approved by voters becomes law 30 days after an election.
Street prices are dropping like a stone. The morality brigade is crying in their (inevitable) beer.
#28, Mustard,
I think Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath really means is he is a recycler. He procures his stock from refuse piles and makes them work again by taping on new knobs or sticking coat hangers in them as antennas. He then sells them in his daddy’s second hand store.
#32. Pot is not addictive. Or let me put it this way, pot is less addictive than milk and chocolate chip cookies. It is way less addictive than booze or video games. There is no education or other measure necessary, for pot. It is this “painting all euphorics with the same brush” on the part of the DEA and their cronies that has led to so much human misery and has brought the administration of justice into disrepute.
There seem to be differences of opinion as to whether State law can ever trump Federal law. I think that the solution would be for Obama to appoint a moderate person or persons to head the DEA and then work out any differences with the States (and other countries!) in a reasonable way. You’ll never get that with the incumbent leadership.