"Drug tools at corner store? Lynn youths just say no" by Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff | April 1, 2010
LYNN — Alerted by members of two youth groups, authorities are clamping down on stores that sell them. The Police Department is taking note. The Health Department is stepping up enforcement. And the City Council is working on an ordinance that would ban certain products....
Nice to know the little fascists are out there looking after us all.
Didn't voters decriminalize the stuff?
Why not tax it like you do everything else?
Oh, I see, chemical company intere$t$ are more important, if you know what I mean.
Councilor Daniel F. Cahill, who is sponsoring the ordinance, which will impose up to $300 in fines on violators.
Oh, fee, tax, same thing. So much for your vote, voters of Massachusetts.
It took a bunch of keen-eyed teenagers to get action from adults in Lynn....
Wow!
Good for them, huh!?
Good thing they were not out protesting wars based on lies or corporate looting.
The situation in Lynn is the latest in a number of youth efforts across the state. From Boston to New Bedford, youths have galvanized against marketing tactics that promote alcohol, tobacco, and junk food teens say harm their peers....
I'm sure the kids mean well; they can't help it if they are blind. Look at the society in which they have been raised.
With training from the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program on what to watch for, 12 teens fanned out across the city last summer, surveying 32 stores within an eighth of a mile from schools.
I'm not saying it is bad; I'm just saying the kudos are coming from the agenda-pushing paper that covers up certain crime syndicates. This is a nice, feel-good, diversionary story, but not news as far as I am concerned.
And why are package stores located so close to schools?
They carried a check list, ticking off items such as spoons, lighters, and loose sandwich bags, which health officials say are used to store marijuana....
Were they wearing arm bands on their brownshirts?
The Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce did not respond to a request for comment last week, and several markets did not respond to a reporter’s questions about the effort....
Neither would I. I wouldn't want to talk to a Globe reporter.
I would say get away from me.
Why are you coming to sow conflict in my town when your city is so full of s***?
Oh, and about those drug cases:
"Ruling on drug cases may spur appeals; Hundreds could seek new trial, early release" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | March 27, 2010
Hundreds of drug cases could be appealed and some convicted drug dealers could win early release because of a ruling by the state’s highest court yesterday that retroactively applies a new constitutional principle to drug trials held from 2005 to 2009, lawyers said.
Really, I mean, let's stop wasting taxpayer loot while contributing to corruption and crime by decriminalizing (like the voters and citizens want) and legalizing then taxing (like the politicos love to do) to solve the budget problems (maybe; given the way they handle loot, maybe not).
Let the booze companies or whoever bring it to you; the real issue is self-cultivation (and not only for smoking; hemp served a variety of needs until after WWII and its been all propaganda from the government ever since).
Related: Study: Smoking Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer -- It May Prevent It!
Yeah, I guess they wouldn't want you to know that, either.
Explains why it helps with the pain and appetite for sick people, doesn't it?
In a closely-watched, 6-to-1 decision, the Supreme Judicial Court moved to clear up confusion created last year when the US Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts routinely violated the rights of defendants in drug trials by not having a chemist testify in person that a seized substance was in fact an illegal drug....
What? Here in smug, sanctimonious Massachusetts?
Also see: Coakley's Missing Case
I used to think she was a good AG; however, after the denial over the blown campaign and other things, it's probably best she is not in Washington. She would have been over her head and a rolled rubber stamp for Democrats.
Not that it mattered; Dems did end-run around the filibuster fooley that had the press tied up for a year.
The SJC also said the appeal will be available to drug defendants even if the defense did not object at the time of the trial, settling a key question that has bedeviled both attorneys and prosecutors for months....
Defense attorneys down on the job, too?
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And I thought there were signs around here:
"Belmont police believe Vincent P. Cedrone, 52, is the man seen on a surveillance video prying a bronze plaque from the front of the Homer Municipal Building, in Belmont Center on March 21, and driving off in a small white sedan.
What, going to the scrapyard for some $$$?
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And look at what happened when little Johnny got to class:
"13-year-old’s pocketknife leads to charges
Needham police are charging a 13-year-old Pollard Middle School student with possession of a dangerous weapon, after the boy allegedly brought a pocketknife to school, according to Chief Thomas Leary.
Not a gun?
Police were contacted March 19 by school officials about a report that a student was selling knives at Pollard, Leary said. After investigating, police determined that was probably not the case.
WTF?
The student found with the pocketknife is being charged in Dedham Juvenile Court, he said.
This is nuts!
The PC and TYRANNY have REALLY GONE FAR ENOUGH!
Related: The School Crotch Inspector
Is that how they found it?
Police can’t comment on the details of a juvenile case, but generally in such cases, they file a complaint application and then a clerk magistrate holds a hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for the charges, said Leary. “In this day and age we have to take these reports seriously,’’ he said.
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Must have been nothing to it because I never saw another word.
