this law will creat subgroups of people that will face harsher penalties from the college-rejects we all know that grew up to become dirty pigs. im sorry, but ive never met a cop worth the material his badge is made out-of… and im a pot smoking minority so i get to meet new dick cops all the time. it’s always interesting to ask the pigs, “don’t you have anything better to do? like a murder to solve? you know, most rape and murder cases this month will go unpunished and unsolved, and you’re here bothering a regular, working, tax paying citizen like me. thanks for making the streets safe!”

actually… one time a cop harassed me I loudly applauded him in public after saying the above. i think he wanted to beat me up but left me alone like he shouldve in the first place.

This West Springfield one is really scary, though. If I read it right it essentially gives the beat cop the authority to arbitrarily pick and choose which pot smokers are criminals and which ones are not.

Based on what? Skin color? Economic status? The Cops mood?

Can they even do that at all? I would think this kind of law enforcement would wake up the ACLU or NAACP or something.

i live in cali, but this makes me really sad. because of this bill, MPP, and the few policemen influencing our laws, i bet several people’s lives will forever be changed for the worse.

someone won’t get to see his baby walk because he’s sitting in jail, possibly causing psychological damage for growing without her father.

a student will lose out on scholarship money, lose the internship that would’ve and coudl’ve been, and may not finish college at all.

countless teenagers and young adults will have to suffer under social anti-weedism (what i call “racism” against potheads), for simply emjoying a relaxing high.

so lame… this makes me sad.

Of course, “win” in this context doesn’t necessarily mean “make things better for your average pot smoker”. Why would they attempt to amend language that they found so compelling in the first place? It “won”, didn’t it? Time to move on to Arizona for 2010 and make sure that medical marijuana patients who live within 25 miles of a dispensary can’t grow their own medicine and must purchase it from that one dispensary (no shopping around; you have to designate your dispensary) at $300-$450 per ounce. Then it’s legalization in Nevada for 2012, where if the language is similar to 2006′s Question 7 that got 44% of the vote, there will be that “public view” loophole that allows cops to harass stoners by getting them to show their marijuana (a la New York City and Massachusetts).

Remember, they are about marijuana “policy”, not smokers. They’ll be the first to tell you they’re not “pro-pot”, they’re “anti-prohibition”. Keep in mind in 2006 they were saying “No, we’re not pro-pot-legalization” while pushing medical marijuana language in Rhode Island and at the same time saying “Yes, we are pro-pot-legalization” while pushing that language in Nevada.

One thing you can say for NORML: though we lack the massive war chest of MPP (and six-figure-salaried leaders), all our funding comes in little amounts from average pot smokers and pot supporters like you. We can’t do anything that pisses off average smokers, or we’d be out of business.

Now we sit powerless having to watch law enforcement lobbies go against the will of the people and dictate law to them.

Where is the MPP with the question 2 Amendments for 2010 that address this?

But I will not be silent when I find them making what I consider to be legislative mistakes that are bad for our constituents, like decrim-that’s-not-decrim in Massachusetts and the intended medmj initiative in Arizona that surrenders the right for patients to grow their own.

I’d say that’s the very definition of fair.

Bone-weary, I am.