Weymouth lawmaker would roll back marijuana decriminalization

Oct 5, 2011 | Archives

State Rep. James Murphy is again pushing legislation to roll back provisions of Question 2, a 3-year-old referendum that made possession of a small amount of marijuana a civil, rather than criminal, offense in Massachusetts. Two bills, which are both scheduled for a...

OpEd: 100 years of marijuana prohibition

Apr 29, 2011 | Archives, Published LTE's

One hundred years ago today, Massachusetts Governor Eugene Foss signed into law Chapter 372 of the Acts of 1911, “An act relative to the issuance of search warrants for hypnotic drugs and the arrest of those present.” Since then, marijuana has been illegal...