Boston Globe: Pot not a crime, but trade still has victims

Possessing less than one ounce of marijuana is no longer a crime in Massachusetts. But crime still flows from supplying it. To understand how far and how violently, consider again the story of Justin D. Cosby, who was murdered inside a Harvard University residence...

The Harvard Crimson: A Drug that Kills

The Kirkland shooting trial exposes the dangers in the disconnect between the health and legal consequences of marijuana In May 2009, Justin Cosby, a 21-year-old Cambridge resident, was shot to death in the basement of Kirkland House. But Cosby wasn’t fatally wounded...

TOWNS WITHOUT REEFER MAD ARTICLES

TOWNS WITHOUT REEFER MAD WARRANT ARTICLES (Updated June 26 at 6:15 AM) As of now, we have identified 169 towns whose town meeting warrant(s) are/were not infected with the madness and 16 towns who took no action, indefinitely postponed or defeated the proposed by-law....