[Editor’s note: A version of this post was previously list-served to NORML’s membership in Massachusetts. To receive updates about pending legislation in your state, sign up for NORML’s free list-serv service here.]
REMINDER — On Wednesday, October 14, Massachusetts state lawmakers will hear testimony in support of taxing and regulating the commercial production and distribution of marijuana for adults age 21 and older.
Members of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Revenue are scheduled to hear House Bill 2929, ‘An Act to Regulate and Tax the Cannabis Industry,’ on Wednesday at 10 am in Room B2 of the State House. House Bill 2929, along with its companion bill SB 1801, were introduced by request in March.
NORML founder and Legal Counsel Keith Stroup will testify in favor of the measures [Editor’s note: Read Keith’s written testimony here.] — along with NORML Advisory Board member Dr. Lester Grinspoon (Harvard Medical School emeritus) and members of NORML’s state affiliate, the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition.
This hearing is historic because it is the first time the state legislature has ever debated legalizing the adult use of marijuana.
If you live in Massachusetts, please show your support for these measures by contacting your state elected officials and urging them to support these common sense proposals. If your elected officials are members of the Joint Committee on Revenue or the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, then it is especially important that they hear from you. For your convenience, a pre-written letter will be e-mailed to your state senator and representative when you enter you go here. The Joint Committee on Revenue may also be contacted at:
House Staff Telephone: (617) 722-2320
Senate Staff Telephone: (617) 722-1625
For additional information about tomorrow’s hearing, please visit the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition/NORML at: http://www.masscann.org or visit: http://www.cantaxreg.com.
GO MASSACHUSETTS!!! 81% support medical marijuana…. i will be in love with my state if we are the first state to legalize….. we have A LOT of pot smokers here…. so many that most non-smokers know multiple people who use it…. that helps out like crazy because everyone can see how it doesnt affect lives like the government claims.
Boston Freedom Rally helped also being so peaceful! I’ll be in Boston tomorrow showing my support!
Come on, Massachusetts, you can do it!!
YES! We really need this, I am not a resident of MA, but, I am an advocate for cannabis and Massachusetts is a powerful state. It is close to New York and Maryland/Washington. All we need is one domino to fall guys!
Awesome. I think if we can get the ball rolling in Mass. on the East Coast, and in Cali. and Oregon on the West Coast, the rest of the states would fall in line.
Inform and educate people. Have them check out CannabisPlanet and CannabisTV.org
Can and will this hearing be recorded?
Can and will this hearing be recorded with video equipment, at least a small digital video camera?
finally
Aweswome news! With things like this happening,it wont be long. Time to end the maddness. Stop ruining American lives, American families.
Finally, they listen!
If all goes well, this could be the beginning of the end of the unjust prohibition of cannibus. Lets all keep our fingers crossed and our voices heard!
Btw I picked up “Marijuana is Safer, So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?” two days ago. I’m about to finish the book today. Absolutely fascinating read. Even before I began using cannibus to help with my crippling anxiety, I always took a strong stance against our culture’s practice of worshipping alcohol (a poisonous substance) while demonizing cannibus, which, in my opinion, is a medicinal, Spiritual, and recreational gift from the Gods themselves. This book solidifies what I’ve always believed; that alcohol, although legal and celebrated, is by far a much greater risk to society than cannibus ever could be. My only hope is that more people, cannibus users and non-users alike, will read this book, along with other great and informative books on the subject of marijuana and the laws that govern it, so that we can all wake up to the facts, stop buying in to the propoganda, and make the Federal Government understand that we know the truth and We The People will not accept the lies anymore.
Go Massachusetts!
Looks like $150/oz for the schwag. $250 for the killer.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/186/ht02/ht02929.htm
See section 9.
That’s too funny! – The Massachusetts JOINT Committee on Revenue
Yes! Yes! Go Massachusetts! You have always lead this country in the fight for freedom and justice. great to see you folks again leading the push for our just liberties. You folks in Massachusetts are on the right path and a model for all the United States to follow. I am so glad and proud that you will be the first state to make history and bring this madness to an end. Your state is truly the home of the brave Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Please use the information in the book “Marijuana is Safer, So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?” to support our cause in your state. Pull out all the stops and lead us into the light.
yes !! it’s about time this happened, I wonder what other states are going to follow if this gets approved.
WHOO HOO!!! Go MA!!!
Awesome! I wonder how long it will take to learn the results?
This is amazing. I’m ready to move to Mass and pay my taxes to a state that cares!
Please Massachusetts be the first sane state in the union. I m ready to pack my bags and head up to the great state of Massachusetts!!!
Massachusetts has some of the strictest laws in the country, no way will this pass. No chance on gods green earth… You heard it from me first.
Pot should be legal. If the authorities were smart they would make it legal to get pot heads on their side. Most pot heads do nothing wrong accept smoke pot, they commit no other crimes but since of the absurd law we are forced to be on the side of murderers, rapists, and pedophiles.
I promise im a good guy please put me on your side. I dont drink, I dont smoke cigarettes, I pay my taxes, never been arrested, please for the love of god put us on your side law enforcement. We arent bad people, we just like smoking like many of you like drinking.
You can get millions of people instantly on your side by legalizing it. We arent asking for meth to be legal, we arent asking for heroin, we arent asking for LSD, we arent asking for anything but common sense. Pot does not make you go crazy, but what does is living in a constant state of paranoia… Let us give you our money, frankly im tired of drug dealers living the good life with their tax free profits and dangerous life styles..
People can grow their pot in their house or back yard. We will work on the smell if thats your concern! We can develop non orderless strains if thats what it takes. Im willing to comprise if you guys will.
What can not go on is this brain dead assumption that pot is this horrible “drug”. Its no more a drug than alcohol and alcohol FAR MORE impairs your judgment.
Lazyness is not a reason to keep something illegal. Yes there are lazy pot heads, but there is also non lazy pot heads, as well as lazy non pot heads.
You’re keeping millions of good Americans on the side of the criminals, wouldnt it be good to get a few good guys on your side?
If not then keep doing what you are doing. Keep arresting, keep wasting tax payer money, keep flying around in helicopters pulling up a plant and essentially wasting YOUR life away. Do you really feel you are doing justice by pulling up the earth?
Pot would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, create new fabrics available at a lower cost, it has use for construction, its environmentally friendly, it helps sick people, and it grows anywhere with far less nutrients than say that of Cotton. Do your own research, stop believing what you are told. Heck dont even believe me, go search for yourself about the uses of Hemp & Pot.
THINK.
I always thought CAL would be the first state – MASS is better, due to it being closer to Ohio. I guarentee that MASS will get a HUGE influx of money should this pass. People in other states will see how benign this plant truly is, and see the economy flourish through the roof. Once this happens, I predict state by state legalization all over the country. If it passes, I just know the statue of liberty will have a great big smile on here freedom loving face.
this is awesome folks. i can just see it spiraling all the way from mass on down to fla and across to cali. i cant wait.soon, i and millions of good americans may actually be able to have our personal life back. big kudo’s to norml and the good folks of massachusetts.how did they get this thing up for vote? oh hell, we here in fla have got to copy.ha….peace to you all…
i hope this passes…especially since i live in mass.
Wow! Go Mass!!!
END CANNABIS PROHIBITION WORLDWIDE
TAX,REGULATE,CONTROL AND HAVE NEW JOBS FOR THIS ECONOMY SO EVER BODY CAN GROW CANNABIS TO BE FREE.
Dan if u live in Massachusetts, u should do everything in your power to spread the news! Let’s not waste time an do this ASAP! (added by Mobile using Mippin)
The bill allows you to grow your own! like the founding fathers intended!
This is an excellent way for the state to make some money. It’s already being sold, let’s let government-run services profit from it!
go mass show us the way!!!
Hopeful @ #11
{…stop buying in to the propoganda, and make the Federal Government understand that we know the truth and We The People will not accept the lies anymore.}
I couldnt have said it better my friend and this statement goes for all governemnt does.
Hell yea MA,Now for the rest of this Country
The way i feel, if a cop feels the need to mess with me on a piddily ass crime (smoking some cannabis) then they (cops) can hav to it cuz im not quitting,by the way when they (cops) get back to the office i really hope there proud of bustin me for my personal use,not to mention all the laughs they get from there co- workers
P.S Cuz i dont carry weight,
Posted this on digg.com. Let’s try to push this to the front page. http://digg.com/politics/BREAKING_NEWS_Massachusetts_Lawmakers_To_Debate_Marijuana_L
People are going to use marijuana whether it’s legal or not. Nothing will ever change that. The state of Massachusetts may as well make money off it!
Boston here I come!!!!
How can any government (U.S. or other) ignore the research and fact that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol? Time and time again, the majority of politicians argue that the safety of marijuana is not along the lines of decriminalizing it or legalizing it. They time and time again say this country is not in favor of decriminalizing illicit drugs…
How and why!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? If it(decriminalizing marijuana) was put to ballot in the next primary election in 2010, I bet the initiative would passes easily. The thing holding it back is… the politicians and their special interests (be it Big Pharma or police organizations). If it was truly up to the AMERICAN PEOPLE… using or growing marijuana responsibly would not be a punishable act or a crime. Neither would be growing industrial hemp!!!
We still live in a fu*ked up world.
“The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of america”
No more true of a song has been sung.
The Serf –
“People can grow their pot in their house or back yard. We will work on the smell if thats your concern! We can develop non orderless strains if thats what it takes. Im willing to comprise if you guys will.”
I am sorry… but WTF!? So f*cking what if marijuana smells once it is growing? Get the f*ck over the smell people.
Try living in Wisconsin next to some dairy farms that spread crap on the fields and then drive on the highway back to the farm… that means crap on the roads and on your car!!! That is a much much more smell most people would not want.
So… cow crap or marijuana smell? Hmmmmmmmmmm… I think some people are just assh*les.
To Mr. Stroup,
That is a very well thought out message. You have done fine job of covering all of the propaganda of the last 72 years. Thank you for taking the time to get this right. I think this will become a historical document. It will be the shot heard around the world. I honestly thought California would be the first state to repeal prohibition of cannabis. I hope the good people of Mass. proves me wrong. We all need to remember that the American Revolution began in New England. I lift my bong to salute the New England freedom movement.
To all of you old enough to remember I want you to think about this. Can you imagine going to your local cannabis outlet and looking over their fine selection of Panama Red, Columbian Gold,Thia stick or Lebanese Blond Hash. Oh the good old days are actually in front of us.
Norml – I read the testimony that you intend to present tomorrow. Very well done. However, I’d revise the introduction:
“I am here today representing NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a public-interest lobby representing the interests of the tens of millions of responsible marijuana smokers in America.”
Change “smokers” to “connaisseur” or some other crafty word-smithed phrase.
well its already decriminalized here, its the next logical step (:
As a teen who uses cannabis for muscle tension, anxiety, and depression, I look forward to the many experiments and medical trials that will legitimize its many applications so that young adults like me will finally be taken seriously regarding our reasons for cannabis use.
The one problem I have with the bill is the restriction of sale to those under the age of 21. If I can smoke harmful cigarettes and join the military, I should be able to use a harmless, medicinal herb.
WOOOOOHHOOOOOOOO
my fingers are crossed, C’MON MASS. WE’RE ROOTING FOR YOU .
I really hope Mass makes this step forward. Their laws are already lax, and if this happens I’m sure that many other states will follow. I’ll be hoping for the best tomorrow!
If justice finally prevails. The dominos may finally begin to fall and other states will follow suit and legalize aswell considering how pretty much all the states are going bankrupt. LEGALIZE IT ALREADY… NOT ONLY HERE BUT WORLD WIDE.
Like eveyone else here, I too hope the Gods of reason find their way to help make this a reality..and if so, i packin’ up and heading east. Having said that, it’s still a big IF so I’m going to give reservation to getting too humpfist over anything until it actually happens…I’m just sayin’…
YES WE CANNABIS!
to; paul armentano, wouldn’t it be a good idea to bring up an industrial hemp bill to go along side this bill???
LEGALIZE IT !!!!!
Marijuana will never be legalized in MA wake the fuck up
This is great news. Norml, please make a post right after this happens and fill us in on the details. Wooooohooooo
21 is far to old of an age restriction for that reason I want this bill to fail. 15 is far more reasonable. Same thing for alcohol. Those with principles contact your representative and let them know why you oppose this unjust meaasure.
If they don’t legalize, it’s ‘cuz Obama called and said no. Vote next time for communists, if you can. It’s a free country lol
Does anybody know when/where/how we can view the hearing and results?
Valid medicinal value, it’s a victimless crime, the War on Drugs WAY too costly, too many arrests for simple possession, tax it and use the money to pay for health insurance and to reduce the deficit…Need I say more?
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#56 i assume you dont live in or near massachusetts…. trust me, massachusetts will be one of the first ones to legalize…. we will be having medical marijuana soon if we dont legalize first….. there are more marijuana smokers in mass per capita than california…
#58 i can only assume you are 15….. the youngest the legal age should be for recreational use is 18. 21 is easier to pass….. someone your age should not be using marijuana recreationally….. however, there should be no age restrictions on medical. you think alcohol age should be 15 too? why dont you concentrate on your schoolwork…. when you pay your dues in school, then you can get fucked up legally… ok?
Hey, George Washington was a cannabis breeder and grower, doesn’t that make cannabis as american as apple pie?
It is about damn time this happens. For far to long politicians have ignored the facts about marijuana (that it truly is less harmful than alcohol) and have based all their decisions on the misinformation propagated by the DEA and other anti drug zealots. It just makes sense in this economy too, the government can tax it just like they tax alcohol. Lets just hope this happens, it would be a giant leap forward for the legalization movement.
#58
….gtfo
This still going on?
So, any news on this?
42. Marcus Says: – Yea tell me about it… If you search for news stories as of late that was one of the biggest concerns and complaints they were receiving. Wish I had the news article but I believe it was a med patient and its neighbors complained the smell was like being within feet of a skunk and it attracts skunks!!!
I frankly dont have a problem with it and love the smell of bud but like I said compromise. If this is their only concern your dang right ill find strains without smell or very little.
However like I said this has no chance of passing. I hope im wrong, I really do but reality kicks in. This is the same state that past the quarantine law and has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. Mass. regulates airsoft guns for crying out loud!
Cant wait to hear the results.
Yea Massachusetts! Be the first in the pool and the rest will follow!!
No updates yet? NORML, please post all information on how it went, the % of for and against,etc. and continue all of your hard work to press this issue, thanks for everything!
Any word on what happened with this today????
[Paul Armentano responds: There is a brief summary of this morning’s hearing on the NORML Audio Stash blog here:
http://stash.norml.org/brian-bergeron-report-from-massachusetts-hb-2929-legalization-hearing. Also check out: http://www.masscann.org/ for updates.]
I absolutely support any state legalizing, and especially as a resident of MA. The laws have improved now that they decriminalized weed but you can still get busted for distribution or something if it’s over .oz. GO MA!!!
#58 you are out of your mind we have to be reasonable about this if it’s going toi happen. If alcohol is legal at age 21 I’ll be happy if we can legalize weed at 21 as well. Once it’s legalized it will allow ppl t cultivate as well meaning the days of people getting robbed and murdered over weed are over.
Woohoo, hope it passes.
Thanks for the heads up via this page/RSS feed. I was able to notify my parents who then wrote their reps.
15 yrs old is WAY TOO young an age to start drinking. Or smoking for that matter; whether it’s tobacco or cannabis. I’m a second generation smoker(cannabis ONLY), and my Mom didn’t let me start smoking ’til I was 18. And 18 is STILL too young for some. And if you are a first generation smoker(A.I.; your parents don’t or have never smoked cannabis), then ya might wanna get a lil’ educational info. before ya lite that first Joint. Don’t get me wrong…I don’t think cannabis is dangerous, BUT it always helps if you know a few facts to way over fiction……….so I’ve been told.?
Yes cannabis is as American as Apple Pie. Now just think of the insanity of outlawing Apple Pie. If G. Washinton was here today the DEA would have to arrest him as a criminal. The more you look at this issue the more you realize how insane the whole constructive fraud has been.
I guess if the founding father was arrested he be depending on his peers to sit on his jury and nullify the law and put this insanity to bed.
Jury Nullification !!!!!!
i thought alaska had already legalized pot??
Though im far from MA im prayin with all my being. Kansas will never legalize but you can bet your ass ill be spending every vacation there!
This is killing me man, what’s the update on all this? There’s gotta be some sort of word…
Its 5PM now the event started at 10AM this morning and there are still no updates?
can we get an update on this issue?
Is it just me or are the taxes per ounce still a little high? if this whole thing is going to work, which trust me i want nothing less, the legal prices need to be competitive with what the illegal sales would be. For the high end stuff, the taxes come to 31.25 an 1/8th. That only leaves 30 dollars to be absorbed in growth, manufacture, and transport BEFORE retail. especially with the type of regulation they are enforcing during the manufacturing processes with specialized measurement and packaging. I’m just questioning if the prices will work in favor of the end-user. Let me know what you think
Soooooo……. How’d it go? We got recordings or anything?
More Breaking News!
Tonight’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer just noted something about marijuana!
Sorry, wasn’t paying super close attention.
Turn it on and tune in!
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20091014advocates_tout_pot_tax_at_revenue_hearing
Ok a few notes about tonight’s News Hour segment on taxing mj in Calif. It was about 5 minutes, maybe a bit longer. They interviewed Rebecca Kaplan (sp?) and Richard Lee. Both noted failure of prohibition and waste of money spent chasing down ever increasing amount of plants while snubbing potential tax dollars.
Also noted was huge tax increase from $1 per $1K of dispensary revenue to $18 per $1K of revenue, but also noted this tax increase was from mj advocates.
The prohibitionist was Scott Kirkland of the Police Chief’s Assn. He spoke of “mj abuse” and how it was “more powerful” these days and the “cost to society” for legalizing it would cost more than revenues would bring in, and of course the obligatory “the children.”
One thing that was a riot, to me, during the interviewers conversation with Kirkland was Kirkland bashing “getting high” then the interviewer asked, “what’s the problem with getting high?” I’d never heard such bold questioning of this aspect of the prohibs boogie man. Kirkland shot back that there would be “lower productivity.”
So the first thought that comes to mind is someone needs to dig up the history of how cannabis has been used throughout history as productivity enhancer. I know I’ve read accounts of workers, typically physical laborers, were given cannabis as a method to make them work harder/longer. But I can’t recall at the moment where I’ve read them.
Here’s my take on “The Children.” I’ve begun to analyze that aspect.
However, no mention of today’s situation in MA. I’ll mention that to them in a letter.
You can write them too:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/letters.html
I’m guessing it didn’t go through if we havn’t heard a peep about it today.
Does anyone have an update? I have been searching online all day and have found nothing. I am hoping for a positive outcome along with most of you!!!
[Paul Armentano responds: Video online here:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-26780-Boston-NORML-Examiner%7Ey2009m10d14-Massachusetts-marijuana-legalization-hearing-video-State-House-10142009. Boston Herald article online here: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20091014advocates_tout_pot_tax_at_revenue_hearing%5D
Way to go MA! I really hope they pass it, then ppl like me with felony marijuana charges can actually get a job without being looked down on. I cant even get a fast-food job, mejyer stores will hire sex offenders, but nobody with a drug conviction….thats BS! What is wrong with this world today, Alcohol kills 80,000 Americans a year..and 440,000 Americans die from tobacco use every year. 1.2 million Chinese, 900,000 Indians, 450,000 Russians, 140,000 Germans, 90,000 British die from smoking every year! There has’nt been 1 case of anyone dieing from marijuana use! What is wrong with this picture?
Here it is! Thanks for posting the link Nathan!
My Report From The Massachusetts Committee on Revenue Hearing for HB2929 (Cannabis Taxation and Regulation) on October 14, 2009
By Brian Bergeron
I just returned home from the meeting at the statehouse. It kicked off at 10am and lasted until close to 1. Though there were other bills on the docket, HB2929 received by far the majority of the attention. I’m happy to say that most of it was positive. I don’t know the exact number but I would say that around two-dozen or so people spoke in support of the bill in a manner of a three-minute testimony. Only one person managed to speak in opposition to the bill. He was from Worcester and was part of a public health/safety organization.
Many of the people that spoke were (and I told them as such) the ‘rock stars’ of marijuana reform. I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Keith Stroup, and Jack Cole (of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) who all spoke. Dick Evans, the author of the bill, whom I had worked with leading up to the hearing to drum up support, spoke articulately as well. MassCann and SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) were also well represented with passionate speakers. It was interesting to see the progression of the hearing. My own three-minute testimony had to do with how the prohibition affects so many issues that are important to the country today—health care, underage consumption, hemp as renewable energy, etc. The committee members started off disinterested, but over time I felt that they came around and started asking pertinent questions. Sadly, only half of the committee showed up, so a lot of our argument won’t be verbally relayed (though many people submitted written testimony). The meeting room was full and at its peak there was standing room only so we were well represented.
In the end, I doubt the measure will pass but it was a great step in the right direction and we will hopefully continue the debate. Mr. Evans felt that this was the largest, most serious legislative discussion for marijuana legalization that he has ever seen or been a part of.
A huge thank you to everyone who participated today in this big step. Good luck to California! Good luck to Oregon! Good luck to every other state that is trying to decriminalize cannabis, or legalize medical marijuana, and end this fruitless prohibition.
One thing that stuck out from the meeting is this: Early on, the committee chairman commented that this is the largest group of people who have ever come before him asking to be taxed.
We’re winning!
Thank you friends and let me know if you have any questions: brian@brianbergeron.net
[Paul Armentano responds: Boston Herald coverage of today’s hearing here: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20091014advocates_tout_pot_tax_at_revenue_hearing%5D
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1204689
# 44. Jed The head: You forgot Maui Wowie.
# 58 miguel carlos: The brain is still forming up to the age of 25. 21 is completely reasonable.
masscan.org is a well organized and well thought out site, nice to see.
You know that when MADD wants to decriminalize MJ, that says something LARGE!
I’m prayin’ hard. A landmark ruling like this would help MA recover from whatever $$ woes it’s currently feeling – and attract new residents.
I, for one, would seriously consider leaving a good job with decent bennies here in the midwest, and moving back to MA ONLY if this is passed.
WOW… if I came home from Iraq with the freedom to actually do something that didn’t make me sick, have hangovers, or do incredibly dangerous stuff… that would be amazing. I do get annoyed that I am in my 6th year of being in the military and I am constantly surrounded by hype about loosing certain freedoms. There is a HUGE amount of military members that smoke weed and don’t get caught simply because it doesn’t really mess with their job function too much and they can play the piss test game well 😛
I personally don’t smoke anymore due to the fact it’s illegal and my son and wife mean way more to me than to risk jail.
GOD SPEED MA!!!
Oh… and before anyone says “Well you are military you wouldn’t be able to regardless..” My contract expired not long ago.. I’m just waiting to come home safely with my unit now and then I’m done.
I watched the video. Considering that I am eager for my Dad with Alzheimer’s to use it, I am not keen on the high $$$ of the tax. Like many my folks are on a “fixed income.” He will soon be loosing health insurance I think, given his age (81), and former benefits package.
He lives in a town in MA that reminds me of what I’ve heard about in CA. The property value tax is insane. For some reason the town they live became popular and the prices for everything have skyrocketed.
I’m all for using cannabis to help society, but a $300 tax for a $30 bag just boggles my mind. At prices like that, for sure I would be trying to help my parents set up their own grow op.
Perhaps people think this is a strategy to win over people and perhaps lower the tax later? Ha! Good luck with that one. Think Boston Tea Party.
Give em hell Massachusetts!!
You can never count out Massachusetts, shes been one of the leaders for liberty her entire existence. Sure glad to see her back in the good fight.. Make us proud Massachusetts, give us liberty.
omg yes!!! please go through with it!!!! i live in ma but i am only 14 but this would be amazing!!! this bill has been around for a while and im so glad they are recognizing it finally!!!!!!!!
spread the love
THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITING BECAUSE I DONT EVEN LIVE AN HOUR AWAY FROM Massachusetts so I hope they leagalize it there and after all Massachusetts is a pretty liberal state
More Food for Thought
Our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution, our very contract with our government employees curbs all three branches of government employees from acting as tyrants. It subjects all departments of government (our employees) to a rule of law and sets boundaries beyond which no official (employee) may go. It emphasizes that in this country a person walks with dignity and without fear or it’s government (employees), that people need not grovel before an all powerful government / the hired help.
The Constitution is not primarily designed to protect majorities, who are usually able to protect themselves, but rather it is designed to preserve and protect the rights of the individuals and minorities against arbitrary actions of those in authority – (our employees / hired help).
Every person who, (is an employee) under color of any statue, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage thereof, of any state or territory, subjects or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States (employers) or other person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the constitution and laws, shall be liable to the injured in an action at law, equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.
Therefore Government Agents Beware! To ALL and ANY of those in government jobs / hired or elected employees alike, you all are hereby given this public notice by at least one of your employers that your continuos unlawful behavior in the enforcement of the unconstitutional cannabis laws will hold you personally liable under U.S.C. Title 42 1983. Beware that a Class Action U.S.C. Title 42 1986 thru 1986 suit is being prepared at this time against all conspirators and co-conspirators who have acted and continue to create harmful injury by unlawfully abrogating the inalienable rights secured and retained by the United States People. Further Beware that “I’m just doing my job” statements will not protect you from being found liable under the Color of Law by a Jury of your Peers.
To my PEERS, fellow citizens it is time to act. It is time that we all start to put this government on notice. That if they can not pull their heads out of our ass we must do it ourselves. We must warn them that we can and will take each everyone of these agents of government to Court. We can act through our Courts and our peers will decided this issue not the government. It is time for each and everyone of you to start the process of putting this government on notice. After that we can attack this government in the Courts and they can do nothing to stop it. We are in control, the veil has been lifted, the wool pulled back from our eyes. It is time, It is time and we must not waste it. Each and everyone of us must push now, together we must push at the local and national levels. We are united and we have told no lies, it is the government that lacks foundation in this issue of cannabis. It is they who built this fraud upon one lie after another. It is time, so will you strike with me and the others who have suffered at the hands of these unlawful employees? Send them their notice and let the shit fly.
“All we need is for one state to legalize. Just one state and it will be the beginning of the end for marijuana prohibition.”
Alaska (of all places) already has, so hopefully mass and california will be soon and this ball can start rolling, it’ll never be legal here in Canada until the US does it, our government is spineless that way (see Emery, Marc)
So what happened with this?
Im a big supported of pot beign legal in the state of ma. I also live here it will be great 21 is a good age to by pot. Its better than drinking and somking cigs why not make it legal in the whole would stop this drug in mexico plush they can tax it and get money from people bying it Alchol kills people weed dosnt it helps people and makes them relaxed Legalise it legalize
Why do the article reminds me of one other very much the same one who Someone said someplace else?