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MA: Towns Weigh Recriminalizing Marijuana Use

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Towns weigh ban on pot use By Scott Stafford, Berkshire Eagle Staff Updated: 03/07/2009 Even though 65 percent of voters in Massachusetts agreed with the ballot initiative known as Question 2 ? the decriminalization of less than an ounce of marijuana ? last November, proponents are saying that members of the law enforcement community are trying to recriminalize it. Question 2 reduced the violation's punishment to a citation, a $100 fine, and confiscation of the marijuana. It allowed towns to separately address public use of the substance. That is the clause, Question 2 proponents say, that some towns are using to recriminalize the possession and use of small amounts of the drug. According to Emily LaGrassa, a spokes woman for the Massachusetts attorney general's office, the municipal law unit provided sample bylaw language at the request of the Executive Office of Public Safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).