Decriminalize marijuana. Tax it like cigarettes and alcohol.
People want social services but no new income taxes? There’s your answer.

Why don’t they confiscate and it then recycle it by bartering it to California.

Did you read the article? Nobody cares.

Massachusetts is a busy state, we actually still have an economy. We are too busy to deal with this, we all have jobs and lives.

Thank goodness we share our wealth with the rest of the country, you’d be screwed otherwise.

I live in Seattle and we could say the same about YOUR state. However, it doesn’t work that way. Your state taxes do NOT go to supporting other states sadly enough, it only goes to feed the MIC in DC. Besides, if it wasn’t for the PACNW, you wouldn’t have cell phones, Seattle is the comm hub of the nation. We host T-mobile, ATT and Verizon here.

Police officers are the wrong people to try to make laws. Their role is to enforce not give suggestions as to what the law should be. There is no reason to change the law that the ballot voted on. The people have decided.

Hey Seattle, check your facts first:

The History of Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., based in New York City and incorporated in Delaware, was formed on June 30, 2000, with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. Verizon began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the VZ symbol on Monday, July 3, 2000.

pot should be legal. if i want something stronger than pot i drink a margarita. when people are high on pot they are calm and relaxed, when people are drunk they want to be crazy, fight, drive like idiots and be obnoxious.

Quit wasting money fighting the marijuana it is time it comes out of proabition. Lets fight the drugs really doing the harm Meth, Coc, Herion, etc . Spend the money going after the bad guys LIKE THE BANKSTERS…..or the Madoffs of the world . It is to easy to put some one in jail for POT…….

your state should be called Massoftaxes

it’s based HERE in Seattle, we’re far more progressive than Massoftaxes could ever hope to be.

Legalize, get out of the dark ages. Did you read the article about Canada coming out with an electric Hemp Car. The manufacturers claim that Hemp among the best the raw materials to make panels out of. It’s light, strong and sunlight is used to grow it and it grows up in Canada with no pesticides. Smoking weed should be legal and it’s taxed regulation will help the economy, but industrial Hemp has even more financial and ecological incentive. Plus it will decentralize production. Everyone should have a Hemp patch. Levis should be made of Hemp again. If you are buying sneakers check out the Path brand sneakers, they’re made of Hemp. Insulation for houses could be made of Hemp, Paint, fuel the list goes on. The major problem is that big corporations are not interested in Hemp because it will take away profits from their toxic patented monopolized crappy products, this is why people need to know about all the positive uses of Hemp. Are there negative uses? I don’t think so. Grow Hemp, Grow Flax and learn how to use these wonderful plants that are naturally part of the planet we reside on. Make the effort to live with less impact because it’s fun, informative, and natural organic Hemp will make it quite easy and inexpensive. Push for legalization and educate the uses and interesting history of this wonderful plant that has often been demonized throughout the ages.

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Yeah their corp office full of suits are there but the real work happens here. Where do you think their server farms are? Where do you think that all the authentication goes on? HERE!

I think I will take a toke for the citizens of Massachusetts. For medicinal purposes only!!! ;-)

For decades the name locally in New England has been Taxachusetts with the alternative spelling of Graftachusetts.

But nearly equally as smug!

Its an urban myth that we pay more taxes

but your jealousy of our superior state is totally warranted

its too bad you can’t enjoy the wonderful things we have here

Mass pays far more in federal taxes than we get in federal benefits

Verizon’s HQ is in NYC.

How many of your tax dollars are paying for a baseball stadium?

Are you ignorant or what? Every city has big server farms.

Kendall Square in Cambridge MA has far more server infrastructure than Seattle.

just jealous i guess

Seattle is progressive? The home of the “teenage dance ordinance”?

Seattle treats its creative artists like garbage, they shut down nightclubs for no reason and their “art museum” is just a joke.

A. Verizon’s engineering (which contols ALL of their network) is here.
B. Stadium was paid for years ago.
C. We are a self sufficient state, meaning with Boeing, Microsoft, T-Mobile being here, we are, for the most part, self sufficient. Minus the idiot crap from our deficit happy Guv’ner of course.

Now you’re touting your ignorance, I have two teen-aged daughters and there is no such ordinance here. Maybe check facts? Yeah and all cities do have server farms but Verizon’s important ones are here.

Go to Belltown or Fremont and you’ll find more than your share of smugness right there in Seattle.

Funny haw states are different. In Alabama simple possession and even the simpilist alchohol charges land you in some sort of rehab. No questions asked. In Gadsden Alabama don’t pay your garbage bill go straight to jail.

C’mon RAW!

“Some Massachusetts towns give up on enforcing relaxed marijuana laws, while others struggle to”

I hope this is a sentence cut off and you arent really using dangling prepositions…..

“The ticketing of the individuals isn’t effective without a back up or other consequences for nonpayment of fines,” New Bedford Police Chief Ronald Teachman said.

Sorry chief, but the entire “war on drugs” isn’t really that effective. Let it go. Think of all the meth freaks we could convert to pot if it was legal and less expensive. It could be the “ungateway drug.”

Well thats the south and the north for ya
you still cant buy alcohol after 9pm or on sundays in the south

of course in NJ you dont get sent to rehab. .01 grams of marijuana will get you a $2,000 fine loss of license for 2 years and community service.

Where in the United States will a first time offender do time for possession of an ounce or less?

Where in the United States will a first time offender do time for possession of an ounce or less?

What a story this would be if it was about a real crime. MA cops ignore assault…murder ..theft..arson..disturbing the peace. That would never happen because those things are bad and marijuana is not too bad really. It’s more like littering except littering is actually bad and marijuana is not bad. It may not be good but it certainly isn’t bad.

I like what you say but have you ever noticed that people who like weed often don’t like other drugs? And people who like hard drugs don’t like weed. You can’t hide from youself on weed. Weed makes some people “paranoid” or self concious. If Rush Limbaugh smoked weed the self revelation that he is a pig would kill him. That is why the hillbilly heroin or oxycotin is so nice for him. Because it erases reality instead of revealing it.

You are right.

Shiiiiiiiit … I’m moving (INHALE) to Massachusettsssss … (EXHALE) where’d I put the car keys …

We’re going to shatter the glass here in California this November. I don’t think the prison-law enforcement-industrial complex will be able to hack enough machines to overcome the massive majority of yes votes coming from both democrats and libertarian-leaning republicons. Of course the false polls will come out along with all the disinformation, but it won’t stop this from passing.

Then once the rest of the country sees that nothing bad results, and that in fact a lot of good results, ballot measures will be all over the country in 2012 where the Initiative process exists. The war on cannabis is coming to an end, and this time the People are in for a victory.

Wow! So right! Have you ever heard of a guy named Bob Marley?

After stowing her luggage in the overhead bin a girl takes a seat next to another girl on a plane and asks, “So where you headed to?” The girl seated looking obviously irritated responds, “to a place where they don’t end sentences with prepositions.” The first girl, eyebrows furrowing says, “So where you headed to bitch?”

Decriminalization without decriminalization of the means of production keeps the price high and therefor keeps the bad guys (often violent gangs) involved and highly rewarded.

Give up on this stupid prohibition. We can’t afford the interdiction costs and we can’t afford the damage from gangs who we give all that money to.

Texas….

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When the black person buys or sells to Black person, I HAVER YET TO SEE POLICE OF ANY STATE, COUNTY, CITY OR VILLAGE TO INTERVENE.

If a white person sells in black area or buys in black area police interrupt immediately, let us accept the hard facts. As racist as the white police folks are, none else in the country, can be seen!

There are currently 8 or 9 inmates in prison in TEXAS for life sentences for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Smug? Like the attitude you have about YOUR state? Get real fran, you are guilty of what you point your finger at Seattle for. Hypocrite.

Looks like a true penny stock. Interesting, I found this site on its message boards, has interesting vids about Hemp being a superior alternative fuel source. Corn is a horrible choice for ethanol because it needs lots of water and depletes the soil. Hemp is better however AgriBusiness is screwing everyone. Legal Hemp could help cushion a bad economic situation. Research this stuff, it might make you outraged. Canada already has the upper hand. We’re shooting ourselves in the foot because of a pro corporate disinformation campaign that started in the 30′s. Educate.

http://cannabistv.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/ethanol-from-corn-disaster-cellulosic-ethanol-from-hemp-stability/

Funny! Seriously you made me laugh!

Both NB and the Asics have good shoes, definitely as good as the others. Pick the ones that feel the best to you. Make sure they have good arch supports though: jump up and down flatfooted to feel which ones do the better job.

If you don’t feel like only being common, take a look at that.

You wouldnt believe how long ive been searching for something like this. Browsed through 6 pages of Google results and couldnt find anything. One search on Bing. There was this…. Gotta start using that more often