By "Radical" Russ Belville on September 9, 2008
How many times have you read a story of a marijuana bust or a marijuana conviction in which the cop or prosecutor involved in sending a person to prison for using marijuana, sometimes medicinally, will say, “We just enforce the laws as written; we don’t have any say in what the people want criminalized or not.”
Unless you count prosecutors in Massachusetts openly politicking to maintain the status quo and their easy marijuana conviction records:
CapeCodTimes.com – DAs fight eased marijuana laws
BOSTON — The state’s 11 district attorneys have each kicked in more than $2,000 to fight a ballot question that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
The $27,670 raised for the newly formed Coalition to Save Our Streets is dwarfed by the $648,473 raised by the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, which backs the question.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone has criticized the question, which he said sends the wrong message to children.
Posted in ACTIVISM, GOVERNMENT, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy, Massachusetts
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And they are spreading lies. One of the biggest is that they say that those that are arrested and convicted for drugs get a one time pass on the CORI. Which is completely not true. I have a CORI for a first time arrest for medical marijuana in MA. So they lie as well.
Video about some of one of the DA’s lies. I need to do another to cover them all. It’s tough to keep up.