Kdo5

No.

It is only decriminalized for less than one ounce. So its still illegal but your permanent record wont be stained if you are found with less than one ounce of marijuana.

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IcyPatriot

you can smoke a joint in Copely Square and if you get caught you pay a fine. Will cops really care to arrest people so they can pay a fine ... probably not to often.

scout

Reminds me of my high school days. Another student made a lamp base in wood working..............lamp by day, bong by night.

MrBigglesWorth

[QUOTE]it was all fear mongering!!!!!

people blink when they get stared down by the govt.

deval patrick fear mongered a couple weeks ago

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I voted yes on decriminalization. Good to see it passed. Sucks about question 1. I guess we get what we deserve in this state. The dog track thing is so stupid. It's fricking dogs running around a track, what needs to be outlawed? Dumb people voting cuz they like little doggies.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
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[QUOTE=MrBigglesWorth;1146468]Agreed. Hard to believe so many were suckered. It wouldn't have screwed services or forced property taxes up like they claimed, just would've made politicos more creatively thoughtful and accountable in how they spent our money. A damn shame it didn't pass.

scout

Didn't even know about the dogs (don't live in Ma). So are they trading dogs for slots? What's with the dogs?

PatsFanInVa

So what you're saying is that you guys STILL can't enjoy the simple pleasure of getting stoned and watching a bunch of half-starved speed-freak canines chasing a mechanical rabbit?

Damn shame.

Stokes

Is this a nod to "Dazed and Confused" or just a coincidence?

Anyway, I'm happy about the turnout on the questions today. I voted yes on all 3, with the yes on 1 being largely symbolic. A big reason to be against question 1 was that there was no tie in to reduction in spending, so the gov't would just have found other ways to take revenue.

Good times on question 2, why waste the resources on arresting and dragging these people to court instead just have them pay a fine. It makes it a net gain of money for the state (fine dollars coming in instead of funds spent on arrests/court proceedings), and starts removing the stigma from a drug that is IMO no worse than alcohol, and definitely no worse than the prescription meds routinely given out to calm people down.

As for #3 there was more to it for me than just liking dogs. We adopted a greyhound when I was younger and from seeing ours and talking with other owners they exhibit some behaviors that point to their mistreatment (nervous behavior, fear of humans especially men, the fact that they learned to sleep with all 4 paws up in the air because their pens were too small to stretch out in, etc.) I'm glad its done with here, let's go ahead and replace the dog tracks with some casino gambling, probably a lot more money for the state than what the tracks brought in. Everybody likes bright flashing lights and blackjack!

PressCoverage

Hopefully, you weren't as ignorant to the other issues as you clearly appear to be on this one:



A. Culling the Litter

The process of selecting only the fastest greyhounds for a stint on the racing circuit begins just moments after a puppy’s birth.9 Some greyhound breeders are so seasoned that “they can tell from the greyhound’s joint structure and health at birth whether the pup has a chance at the big time.”10 Those pups that will not succeed on the track are put down on the spot by “bash[ing] the head in.”11 If the runts are not killed immediately after birth, the breeder typically culls them from the litter within the first three weeks.12 Because a greyhound’s racing capacity is not always visually discernible at the outset, the culling process continues at the training grounds where young greyhounds learn to race.13 It is there that “the slow afoot, the slow to learn, or the just plain stubborn get winnowed again.”14 As the pups grow older, death usually comes by bullet, though it has been rumored that sport fisherman have also purchased young greyhounds for shark
bait in Key West, Florida.15

The inexperience of amateur backyard breeders interested in
turning a quick buck multiplies the number of puppies that will be
born and killed for lack of racing potential.16