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.
A sensible measure, approved by a huge 65%, but what happens when the mad-dog feds of the DEA step in? No offense intended toward feral dogs.
Sin, degradation, vice, insanity, drug crazed abandon…just another day in the life of John C. Dvorak.
Eideard said, “Street prices are dropping like a stone.”
Got a link?
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(Learn how to use The Google-editor)
Finally, some place civilized I can move to that doesn’t have earthquakes.
As I thought. No link. LOL
Yep, no news items verifying pot prices “dropping like a stone.”
#8 – you’re so droll. Call a friend on the South Side or in the Bury. You do have friends, don’t you?
#9 The type of people I associate with umm, aren’t that brain dead.
My state passed a medical pot law, and I just happen to have a big honkin’ glass greenhouse. I might have a new career one of these days.
Duuuuude!
Paddy, you mean they’re not listed here:
http://www.bls.gov/CPI/
I wonder why not?
Considering how harmful cigarettes and alcohol can be versus marijuana, there’s no reason marijuana should be illegal. Just the misguided beliefs people have thanks to the tobacco industry and corrupt politicians. The problem is decriminalization just gives free reign to drug dealers, when it should be sold and taxed in a store.
@12 Mark
Give it time. When the federal government is squeezed for money during the upcoming depression they will legalize it and tax it. Just like they did for alcohol (repealed Prohibition) during the last depression. Politicians really don’t care where the money comes from as long as they get it.
What would you expect? Obama carried Mass 60% to 39%. The county-by-county vote shows even greater isolation for those dedicated to silly walks.
Urbans areas grow. Education slowly grows towards universal. Reason occasionally prevails.
#14 O’really said, “What would you expect? Obama carried Mass 60% to 39%.”
Dumb and Dumber?
What do you expect from Mass?
It is still illegal. Its a catch 22 so too speak. It might be legal state wide but is still illegal federal. Watch the clip to give you an idea what I am talking about.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/60_Minutes_California_medical_marijuana_system_1231.html
#16 Yep. Prices didn’t come crashing down in CA either.
Hence the comment from the editor that, “Street prices are dropping like a stone.” being suspect and unverifiable. Despite the existence of Google. LOL
I bump my question. States and cities can “legalize” all they want, but what happens when a citizen with a picogram of anything meets with the rabid DEA? Sumpthin’s gotta give, and it’s always the citizen.
#19 “Simple solution.
The enabling legislation expressly makes this a State issue under the Ninth Amendment and forbids any interference by any police agency without the express authority of the Commonwealth Attorney General. All prosecutions will have to be authorized by the A.G. ”
Sorry, just like in CA, the Feds have trumped state law with fed law…
Nice try but doesn’t hold water.
Massachusetts is a great state (although not as great as NY). For one thing, they still have electronics manufacturers like Vicor producing real products for sale in-state. Places like MA put the lie to the trite canard about taxes stifling development.
20,
paddy-o,
Are you for or against states rights?
#21 smartalix joked, “Massachusetts is a great state (although not as great as NY). For one thing, they still have electronics manufacturers like Vicor producing real products for sale in-state. Places like MA put the lie to the trite canard about taxes stifling development.”
I’m in that industry and my father before me. The 95 is now like a mini electronics Rust beltway.
You’re funny as hell.
I would think the simplest solution would be for the State’s to simply not enforce any marijuana laws. If you get busted by a Fed, then you could do time, but if you get busted by State or Local police they would be directed to let you go.
If the Feds threw a fit because of lack of prosecution, then simply set the fine for distribution or consumption to $1.
#23 – O’Furniture
>>I’m in that industry and my
>>father before me.
You both worked at Radio Shack??
Kewl.
#25 Mustard, Hard to argue with facts isn’t it. LOL
Last time I checked, Allied, Kemet, L-3, Jaco, Curtiss-Wright, Elma, ST, HP, and a couple of others, including Vicor (which makes 100% of its product in-state). Sure there have been closings, but to hear the pussy-ass fearmongers there shouldn’t be ANY industry in “taxachusetts”.
#26 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Mustard, Hard to argue with facts
>>isn’t it. LOL
LOL is right! You just can’t argue with the truth! I never knew anyone who was a second-generation Radio Shacker! Wow! They must have a great employee retention plan! LOL! ROTFLMAO!
Think you can get me a deal on a cordless phone?
#27 – smartalix
>>but to hear the pussy-ass fearmongers there
>>shouldn’t be ANY industry in “taxachusetts”.
Hey! One thing you DO NOT DO is call Paddy-RAMBO a “pussy-ass”. Your body will end up in a pile along with the rest of us who dare defy him.
I’ve heard that he’s got a nasty habit of running over those he doesn’t like with radio-controlled cars from “The Shack”.
So, Mary Jane is just a fine and lot of it is available yet I can’t purchase a case of wine over the InterTubes for my private consumption! What a (Nazi) State!
Just what this nation needs: more guys with boobs and bb balls who can’t remember if they are heading for the bathroom or coming back.
Bad enough for senile citizens but now the younger generation can join in the fun.
Okasy so with shot lungs maybe they’ll die before they draw social security.
I’m sure the police prefer going after the potheads who only have a nickel bag of two on them. Rather than the chasing the well armed mass distributors. It’s a easier job, and still gets a good bit of the glory from the public. Take away those easy collars, and the police will have to risk life and limb more often, in the name of cleaning up “real” criminals. But jailing everyone who simply uses a little, is clogging up our legal system, I’m sure. Rather than educating people against drug abuse, or providing some rehab for addicts. The stupid solutions seems to have been to hire more judges and lawyers, to process people who are basically sick and in need of help. Yeah, let’s lock them up first. That’ll cure them. But don’t tell grade schoolers that there’s sh*t out there that can ruin their lives. They might not want to smoke tobacco or drink booze, either. And that would upset those industries. In fact the well informed teenager might even refuse to enlist in military service. Can’t have that. So keep the kids ignorant and vulnerable. And lock up the ones who couldn’t see the line that they shouldn’t have crossed (because we failed to tell them about it!). Ain’t our system great?