Decrim dead in Connecticut

(Connecticut Post) HARTFORD — A 1:30 p.m. deadline for action came and went in the Finance Committee this afternoon, killing a bill that would have decriminalized penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana.

The legislative inaction came as a defeat for Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, who wanted to model Connecticut law on a Massachusetts referendum last fall that made possession of small amounts of pot punishable by infraction penalties.

The bill, along with legislation that would have prohibited smoking in the state’s Native American casinos, died as a chief opponent to the pot legislation, Sen. Antonietta Boucher, R-New Canaan, talked on the subject through the early afternoon deadline.

…Boucher seemed to gain momentum last week when Capitol police arrested a state officer in a national marijuana-reform organization on a disorderly conduct charge after state officials intercepted a threatening e-mail he directed toward Boucher.

So the representative who received a threatening email by mistake from a former NORML VP filibustered marijuana decriminalization to death.  That must be how state legislators “go postal”.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead, famed anthropologist.

“Never doubt that just one person in that small group can screw it all up for the rest.” — Russ Belville, NORML podcaster.