Yeah, I guess they have nothing better to do other than cruise the strip, bust brothels, hang out in bars, buy drugs, and worry about cellphones while ROBBERIES, RAPES, and MURDERS go UNSOLVED!!!
And that "good Samaritan" you thought you saw?
“Earlier this month, police wrapped up a 30-day sting involving plainclothes officers mimicking tourists and other pedestrians. Once they were panhandled, they essentially became victims guaranteed to show up for a trial”
Why not HELP OUT the PANHANDLERS and SOLVE the PROBLEM?
Related: Marijuana Makes MSM Monitor Mad
Yeah, LORD HELP US if it would actually HELP PEOPLE! Anything that might actual help you stay alive, this government opposes.
Also see: Boston Globe Traffic Detail
Why would you want to worry about them when there are bong shops to bust?
"A matter of function; Allston shops closed over alleged drug paraphernalia" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | July 5, 2010
The police raid on Matthew Yaffe's Green Side Up Gallery was one of three since April in Allston, where police have been cracking down on so-called head shops, stores that sell pipes and rolling papers that can be used to smoke marijuana.
Didn't VOTERS DECRIMINALIZE POT?
Then WHY are the BOSTON COPS WASTING VALUABLE TIME and MONEY?
The busts were well planned. Officers took photographs of the shops before making their arrests, and interviewed North End tobacconists to bolster their argument that the Allston shops were selling drug paraphernalia.
Actually, there is SOME DISPUTE about that and it TURNS out the NEWSPAPER is MOUTHING the COP'S LIES for you, Boston!
Don't believe me?
READ ON!!
“We’re not looking to put anyone out of business [who is] running a legitimate business,’’ said Captain James Hussey, who runs the Brighton district. “These places were set up, it appears, just to sell drug paraphernalia.’’
Lawyers for those arrested say the shops were licensed by the city and state to sell the products, and police had no basis for shutting down the shops. But Hussey said two of the shops — neither of which belonged to Yaffe — did not have proper licenses displayed.
Gee, that sounds like HARASSMENT considering ALL the ILLEGALITY that takes place in this state every day!
Business leaders in Allston, a neighborhood popular with college students and graduates, said they are dismayed by the hard line authorities took.
“Very draconian,’’ said Bob Webber, president of the Allston Board of Trade and owner of Model Hardware. “Troubling to me is that these places were licensed by the city. It was almost like they got the green light, and shortly after opening they got blindsided.’’
Hey, it's MASSACHUSETTS, sig heil!
After Yaffe’s arrest, Hussey met with Webber and other business leaders at the police station, where Hussey said he would try to come up with guidelines for other glass pipe sellers in the neighborhood who are nervous they could be raided.
Didn't VOTERS DECRIMINALIZE POT?
The dispute between the business owners and police centers around the state law against drug paraphernalia, which can include bongs and pipes, but also blenders, balloons, and even spoons.
I thought we were ALL on the SAME SIDE?
The law, however, stipulates that authorities should consider various factors before deciding that such equipment is being used illegally. For example, police should weigh expert opinion on the objects, as well as whether they were found near drugs or had drug residue on them.
“The law is very clear that none of it is illegal unless the person sells it knowing that it will be used to ingest a controlled substance,’’ said Yaffe’s lawyer, Joshua Krefetz. “They have to show that he knew someone was going to use one of his products for drugs and then they have to show that he sold it to that person. . . . That person doesn’t exist.’’
Hussey said detectives found no drugs in any of the stores, but he disputed Krefetz’s interpretation of the law, noting that in one shop, detectives found a gas mask with a bong — a filtration device used for smoking — attached to it....
Hussey said the crackdown was sparked in April, when a Brighton officer stopped by the Wild Side smoke shop on Harvard Avenue, saw the wares, and learned the business did not have a proper permit on display.
Yup, RAPES, ROBBERIES, and MURDERS going UNSOLVED, and yet the Boston cops are STOPPING and SHOPPING at HEAD SHOPS!!!
Ex-firefighter to spend 8 months in prison for growing marijuana
A federal judge in Maine, sentencing a 32-year-old former Boston firefighter on a marijuana-growing charge this week, noted that the man had admitted smoking about 2 ounces of the drug each week during the time he worked as a firefighter, prosecutors said.
Is that a lot?
Awww, let the fire burn, right?
So when is the undercover sting operation at the firehouse?
Now where were we?
Detectives came by a few days later and saw products, in addition to the gas mask, “that jumped out at them as things that aren’t sold in the normal course of business,’’ Hussey said.
On April 30, they arrested one of the store’s employees and seized hundreds of pipes and bongs....
Hussey said the raid on Wild Side prompted police to look around the neighborhood for other alleged violators.
NOTHING BETTER to DO, huh?
“After doing this, [detectives] said, in fairness, let’s make sure there is no place in the area doing something similar,’’ Hussey said.
So about two weeks ago, detectives from Brighton entered Yaffe’s Harvard Avenue shop and took him away in handcuffs.
“I was shocked,’’ said Yaffe, who opened the store about nine months ago. “Cops came in and said, ‘We’re closing you down.’’’
According to an affidavit attached to the warrant to search Yaffe’s store, detectives consulted with two North End tobacconists four days before the Wild Side bust.
“Detectives . . . learned that there is no legitimate purpose for nonconventional pipes such as glass or porcelain pipes, stone pipes, ‘bongs,’ or like devices,’’ the affidavit read. “Such items would normally be used with illegal narcotics.’’
Stephen Willett, owner of L.J. Peretti Co., one of the North End tobacconists referred to in the affidavit, said he does not recall speaking to any detectives. But he did not dispute the affidavit’s characterization of glass pipes.
Translation: The COPS LIED in filing their LEGAL AFFIDAVIT!
Here is an IDEA, Boston:
GO UP to NEW HAMPSHIRE to GET YOUR STONER PRODUCTS!
I read that the TAXES are LOWER, too!!!
F*** doing BIDNESS in Massachushitts!
And to the REST of the WORLD, go ANYWHERE but HERE!!!
“Everyone knows what they’re used for. We all went to college. It’s not a mystery,’’ said Willett, who is 59. “I don’t take any umbrage with that. I believe in personal liberty. I would like marijuana legalized so that I can sell it.’’
In AmeriKa?
In Massachushitts?
Give the PEOPLE what they WANT?
Surely you have been SMOKING SOMETHING, sir!!!!!!
In Massachusetts, possession of small amounts of marijuana has been decriminalized, but possession and distribution of drug paraphernalia remains a crime.
Well, PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS find a WAY!!
Wow, am I EVER GETTING some '60s flashbacks!
Anybody got a soda can?
Yaffe said he refused to sell to anyone who said they wanted the pipes for drugs. Customers usually bought the pieces to smoke legal herbs for spiritual rituals, he said, or to decorate their homes.
Hey, just fighting government lies, 'er, fire with fire.
And DJ Lawton, who owns The Joint, which was raided in May, said he sold pieces valued at up to $15,000.
“I’ve literally lost hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars since this debacle,’’ said Lawton.
Well, it can't be that much. If so, YOU have a PROBLEM, Massachusetts!!!
He said he wants to open another shop in Allston, but it won’t have glass pipes.
Instead, Lawton said, “I’m getting into the food business.’’
Translation: the police intimidation and state tyranny worked and forced him out of the business.
So when are you going to go after and shame the war criminals and looters?
Also see: America Asleep in the Streets
Isn't that also what weed does?
