This is hilarious. The law actually says that posession of an ounce or less of THC is OK! There is a little differnce between a couple tablespoons of marijuana and an ounce of THC.
It does not specify what isomer, so I guess they are all OK as long as you have less than an ounce.
The part about metabolites etc seems to say that a positive dope test is now decriminalized, too, which will be fun once lawyers get ahold of a good test case or two.
Thanks for the research, I did not look up the actual law.
Was it a criminal offense before? They're saying a positive drug test for marijuana metabolites is no different than possession of marijuana. It is considered possession of marijuana. That's not the law in my state. I doubt there are many states besides Massachusetts that make that any type of offense. In most states at least it is not an offense. It's something that can get you in trouble with your employer. You might get your kids taken from you or visitation supervised if you are tested in family court. You might get held in contempt or have your probation or parole revoked if you've been ordered not to use any illegal drugs and you violate that court order, but if for someone reason the average Joe is found to have marijuana metabolites in his system there is nothing the law can do about that. It might be evidence that you broke the law, but it is not a violation of the law itself to have THC or marijuana metabolites in your blood or urine. Massachusetts may have just added a new offense. If the cops really wanted to be jerks they could claim that possession of marijuana is enough to give them probable cause to administer a drug test to see if the person committed the additional offense of having THC or marijuana metabolites in his system. I don't know if that would fly, but I could see them trying something like that.