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Sorry, not whining, just posting in article links.

I’ts interesting that the state should get a citizen-backed law decriminalising pot, and then immediately extend it to hash, hash oil, and apparently pure THC, without legislative input or due process. It's funny, too, I think, that they perceive a problem with public use of something that will get you a $100 ticket, so they need to “tighten up” public pot use laws, like it's OK to smoke anything anywhere anyway (tobacco). That's why I posted that article.

As for excluding or not excluding salvia, goes to show it's a War On Some Drugs.

The whole thing is quite amusing.

Other articles I dredged up but did not post related to evaluating whether citizen-based initiatives should be allowed, since this was one of them, and Prop 8 here in CA was, and what if the people in MA were allowed to vote on gay marriage?

lol pass the popcorn!

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I think the cops and prosecutors in Massachusetts are whining though. They're the ones stirring up the mess here. Some are saying they won't enforce the new law. They're the ones with all the Chicken Little stories about hash and all that. They're the ones suggesting that people will just lie to police about who they are so they don't have to pay their tickets. When I see these articles it frustrates me because it sounds almost as if these idiots are encouraging young people to lie to police about who they are and their ages and so on. They're encouraging what was a more serious crime in Massachusetts than marijuana possession was even before the law changed. Instead of all this whining about how people might lie to police about who they are, they need to be telling people how serious an offense it is to lie to police.

Similar laws have been working fine in several states since the 1970s. The sky hasn't fallen in states that decriminalized. Per capita pot use isn't even higher in those states. These police and prosecutors just need to grow up and get over it. They lost. Sixty five percent of the population wanted simple possession of pot to be decriminalized and punishable by a ticket with a small fine. These yahoos want to whine about it, try to get the legislature to overturn the new law, which they can do in Massachusetts, so they're using scare tactics, painting these “sky is gonna fall in” scenarios. That ticks me off because I don't think cops and prosecutors have any business screwing with laws like these. Their job is to enforce the laws. They need to shut up and enforce the laws. That's just my two cents worth.