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Massachusetts

MannyGoldstein

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2. That's just terrible.

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 08:00 AM

Dec 2013

But New York's laws are even more lenient on these "tokers", and their arrest rate is 2500% higher.

Somehow, NY is able to overcome its handicap; we can, too.

(In all seriousness - I'm wild-guessing that it would be legalized if a relevant case ever hit the SJC. Perhaps they never got a relevant case because their are so few arrests.)

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Massachusetts worst in country for pot busts. [View all] MannyGoldstein Dec 2013 OP

It's not an "arrestable" offense, unless you're carrying a ton of weed on you. MADem Dec 2013 #1

That's just terrible. MannyGoldstein Dec 2013 #2

NY has stop and frisk, we don't. The S/F laws cause the cops to pull out the weed and then accuse MADem Dec 2013 #4

Maybe Mass residents don't get high? Scuba Dec 2013 #3

You can't throw a rock in Boston without hitting a college or a university! MADem Dec 2013 #5

lol In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #6

We do, but... pipi_k Dec 2013 #7