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MA: Prison--for Pot? Massachusetts voters can Just Say No to bad drug policy.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison--for Pot? Massachusetts voters can Just Say No to bad drug policy. Thursday, May 29, 2008 By Maureen Turner, Valley Advocate I call Dick Evans to interview him. But he has his own question?or, more specifically, an assignment?for me: "I challenge you to find anyone who believes adults who choose to use marijuana responsibly deserve to be arrested, prosecuted and locked up." Evans is pretty sure I'll come up empty; he's even willing to bet a lunch on it. A Northampton attorney and former member of the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, Evans spent decades advocating for the reform of drug laws, and while officially "retired" from the cause, he still tracks it closely. These days, there's a lot to track...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).