{"id":6146,"date":"2009-01-06T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-01-06T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:25:38","slug":"another-reason-i-wish-i-still-lived-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6146","title":{"rendered":"Another reason I wish I still lived in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/01\/03\/police_balk_at_ticketing_marijuana_offenders\/?page=1\">The police react <\/a>to a ballot initiative which made possession of small amounts of pot a misdemeanor:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Massachusetts officially decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana yesterday, but many police departments across the state were essentially ignoring the voter-passed law, saying they would not even bother to ticket people they see smoking marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just basically not enforcing it right now,&#8221; said Mark R. Laverdure, chief of police in Clinton, a Central Massachusetts town of about 8,000 residents, who said the law was so poorly written that it cannot be enforced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/sunday-clearinghouse.html\">The Debate Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted in In the news&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/barrydeutsch.wordpress.com\/31\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=barrydeutsch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=176430&amp;post=31&amp;subd=barrydeutsch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police react to a ballot initiative which made possession of small amounts of pot a misdemeanor:<br \/>\nMassachusetts officially decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana yesterday, but many police departments across the state were essentially ignoring the voter-passed law, saying they would not even bother to ticket people they see smoking marijuana.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re just basically not [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}