Boston Police waste Time looking for Pot at Phish Concert
Drug warriors hate a party, but they loathe a concert. It’s pretty standard fare for local cops to waste time looking for pot at a concert simply because the band has a 420 friendly message, but even after the voters passed Q2 the police act like they don’t know what to do with their time.
Boston police threatened to whack weed enthusiasts this weekend at Fenway Park but could not say how many $100 pot citations were issued to fans of Phish and the Dave Matthews Band.
Despite the weekend-long music mayhem, police tallied just one arrest – for distributing nitrous oxide-filled balloons – according to BPD spokesman Eddy Crispin.
The reason the “Bosto PoPo” wouldn’t say how many citations they issued at the concert was because they didn’t issue more than a handful. The “high” profile crackdown they were touting and hoping for was simply a bust. Another taxpayer funded wild goose chase puts the local residents further at risk for violent crimes in a city where in the past years 6 out of every 10 murders went unsolved.
The sad fact is that police love to bust non-violent pot smokers. We’re generally very co-operative, seldom refusing a search, and rarely resist arrest. What cop in his right mind would go out an stake out a killer, when his time could easily be taken up with a few arrests and some quality time with a laptop. Besides, even if you don’t smoke pot, Dave Mathews and Phish allways put on a good show.
And for the record, the pot smokers won another battle against the police that night.
“I’m not scared; we’ve smoked a couple of bowls right here,” said shirtless Johnny B., 24, of Rochester, N.H. “I think they are going to let it go, turn a blind eye to it.”
“Just look around, everyone’s happy,” said Brent C., 28, of Marshfield. “There’s no trouble. Just beer, barbecues and bros.”
I guess we’ll win the war on drugs one jam at a time.
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No fines given out. Check the link.
http://www.mikecann.net/2009/06/boston-police-decide-not-to-fine.html
Which works out great for us at the Freedom Rally. If they decide to target our event, it will get very interesting.
The question to ask is what committee, group, person(s) are behind the initial complaint that stirred up the police wasp nest in the first place?
I live in Mass and average about one show a month during the summer. Smoking bans have made the venues generally smoke free but the parking lots have always been a tailgate party of drinkers and smokers with little problems.
The first step to starting problems is to send out the police as an offencive force looking to start trouble instead of just having them on scene in case of emergency.
I think many of the front line officers working these events clearly know this. The worry is when a directive comes down from the top for officers to proactively seek out and write as many $100 marijuana tickets as they can.
Is this a local town committee problem or a chief of police problem? Who is the misguided person that needs a carreer change?
Any Ideas?