Happy New Year massachusetts Stoners

A new law comes into effect in Massachusetts tomorrow allowing citizens to possess marijuana amounts of under and ounce. There is still a 100 dollar fine given but it dose not go on the persons record and the fine is similar to or less than other fines like open container and public drunkenness.

The upside is the ability of the judicial system to be more free to pursue other more serious and violent crime, as well as increase tax revenue.
The downside is that many police officers feel that they are able to catch bigger criminals if pot is found giving them reason to do more searching.

Hooray for the underage stoner because a minor consumption ticket it much more expensive then that of the pot possession, unless you have a lot on you when your caught and you have to forfeit that pricey bud as well. Perhaps this is change we can believe in?

I am for this law, thinking too many people locked up are just drug offenders who go to jail and learn how to be bigger and better criminals rather then treated like someone who made a mistake and must now atone for it by serving others. Pot can trigger scizophrenia in predisposed people some studies show, but it's overall effect on society is probably less than that of alcohol.