Posted on 01/05/2009 6:33:10 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly
Massachusetts officially decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana yesterday, but many police departments across the state were essentially ignoring the voter-passed law, saying they would not even bother to ticket people they see smoking marijuana.
"We're just basically not enforcing it right now," said Mark R. Laverdure, chief of police in Clinton...
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Ha. Maybe that residence is under a bridge? Around here, the only cites for pot I have personally witnessed were associated with car stops, and there is implied consent to produce ID most places, if you're driving a car.
And that would differ from the status quo in exactly what way?
i don’t know about that. plenty of trannies were willing to pay out the wazoo for androcur when it was on the market. making it free + a trip would just sweeten the deal.
The current prostitutes pretend to care about good old fashioned american values. They even pretend to live them sometimes if they need a few votes.
Sure.
Maybe they should enforce jaywalking odinances, too.
Opiates, meth, cocaine, and the lesser drugs down the scale, can bring other problems not related to their illegality into the sphere of public interest, but those behaviors (child neglect or driving under the influence, for example) are against other laws that would be equally enforceable without regard to possession or use per se.
The "victimless" crime statutes being abandoned would benefit more than harm society, I believe.
Yeah and for the right price you can get a street hooker to pretend to be or do just about anything. So I’ve heard.
Well I don’t care. I prefer to keep the two kinds of prostitutes separate.
(good thing you added that disclaimer after your post)
Legalize soft drugs.
Release non-violent drug law offenders.
Tax marijuana
Harvest needed $$$$ and create a freer America.
No!
Not until the jerks in DC legalize real assault rifles first! And stop with the global warming crap.
Meth - A lot of meth users would burn out and die rather quickly. The chief danger is that some of them would commit wildly violent acts before they croaked.
Cocaine - Unrestrained coke use will cause a lot of strokes and heart attacks. Some will die, but a lot of them will be permanently disabled.
Heroin, morphine, and other opiates. Addiction but continued ability to function. Many will accidentally overdose and some will reach the point where the drug will be ineffective and might have to turn to something else.
PCP - Who knows with these people. They are likely to hallucinate and do harm to themselves or others.
LSD - LOL - anything is possible here. Mild trips, catastrophic trips, death from trying to fly off bridges and such, and maybe a few auto crashes here and there.
Pot - Gradual decrease in productivity with heavy use, and the chance of cigarette like illnesses. Still, not worth all the hysteria and vast expenditure of funds to eradicate it.
Yeah. Why shouldn't the black jazz musicians go back to corrupting the white chicks like they used to?
In new york it’s a criminal summonse and if u give a fake name you’ve got bigger problems.
It's not illegal to give a false name for a ticket? In my state at least that would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a thousand dollar fine. Signing a different name could be considered a forgery, which would be a felony. I had a call from a public defender recently who has a case where a Liberian man who overextended his visa had a fake drivers license. It had his real name on it, but since the document itself is a forgery they are going after the guy for a felony forgery punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Often they'll charge people with the same offense if they give a fake name when they are arrested for something and then sign the booking sheet at the jail using the fake name. I wouldn't be so certain that it is no crime to give police a fake name when they are writing you a ticket. If it is a crime as I suspect it probably is in Massachusetts I think these police and prosecutors when giving interviews ought to be spreading the word that it is a crime and will be prosecuted. As it is it almost seems like they are encouraging people to lie.
Pot causes hard working businessmen to come home and go on mass murdering sprees, dontchaknow. It’s true, I saw it in a drug warrior propaganda film.
Decriminalization is not the same as legalization. Several states have decriminalized pot. Most that did it did it back in the seventies. Decriminalization normally means that the threat of jail time is removed, not the threat of fines though. Usually, it also means that the offense is no longer treated as an actual criminal offense that leaves people with a criminal record. It will be viewed as a civil infraction or a violation like a speeding ticket or something like that, but it is neither a misdemeanor or a felony crime.
The "cleansing of the gene pool" is not to be discussed as a possible solution to drug abuse.
I've been hit from all sides for proposing the same.
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