Two members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and four members of the Massachusetts legislature endorse ending marijuana prohibition. The rest of our congressional delegation has yet to catch up with Barney Frank and Michael Capuano, and 196 members of the...
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...
Marijuana tokers in Leicester might think their police chief is getting a little too high on the state law that decriminalized use of less than an ounce of the drug, and they could be right. Since the law passed, Leicester has issued some 252 citations, a lot more...
RE “SJC limits response by police to marijuana’’ (Page A1, April 20): If a police officer stops a vehicle and smells the distinctive odor of alcohol, the officer has the right to order the driver out of the vehicle. That is common sense, as the driver may be...
Your editorial demonstrates an author suffering “reefer madness,” an illness that causes the sufferer to forget the principles of the Constitution (“Wacky weed indeed,” April 21). The Supreme Judicial Court implies that police may give the operator a citation for...
