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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.

“I think the cops and prosecutors in Massachusetts are whining though.”

I didn’t think of that- I thought that the state guidelines suddenly included hashish and oil and THC because they wanted to decriminalize cannabis in general. You may be right.

There are cops who won’t enforce the new law, but those articles said that they just won’t issue citations, making pot legal, at least in some MA towns.

Once they see a way to make it a “revenue stream” they’ll be out busting people to collect the $100 plus any “outdoor violation” fees and whatever else they can think of.

Once a “posessor of less than an ounce” looks like an easy $200 or so with minimal paperwork, it’s an industry!