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City approves one-day pot rally on the Common
By adamg on Tue, 09/10/2013 - 6:48pm
This just in from City Hall:
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department announced today that a 2013 Park Permit has been granted to the MassCann/NORML Boston Freedom Rally to hold an event/concert on Boston Common on September 14. The permit gives the group permission to hold the event from 12pm-6pm on September 14.
Organizers had sought a two-date permit for their annual Freedom Rally this year.
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Oh the humanity. I wanted two
Oh the humanity. I wanted two days of pot smoking and hippies. Police state I say.
If anyone's looking for me that day
I'll be manning the Silk Road booth!
Heroic!
Heroic!
On Yom Kippur ?!
On Yom Kippur ?!
BPD? Where are you?
Why isn't the BPD standing on the edges of the common ready to make arrests? (For those without a valid "medical marijuana" prescription that is.)
The rally coordinators are making it easy for the BPD, giving them the time and place.
arresting people?
What would the police arrest people for? Possesing 1 ounce or less of marijuana is decriminalized in massachusetts. It is not a crime. It is only punishable by a ticket similar to littering.
A little news for you
Pot smokers don't really care about legalization. Instead they really just want acceptance to get stoned.
Legalizing pot means taxes, regulation, laws about where they can buy and smoke. All of that "noise" as they would say contradicts their Beavis and Butthead lifestyle. Just give them a joint and leave the complications to everyone else.
slight logic fail
It's not only "stoners" in favor of legalization. I don't smoke, I don't like pot, and I try not to hang out with people who smoke when they're smoking, and I think legalization is a great idea. I want our law enforcement resources to be better used, and I want the government to be able to tax the hell out of marijuana like they do cigarettes. It's nothing to do with acceptance, and everything about money.
What next, beer and wine
What next, beer and wine drinkers will want acceptance to get drunk?
Probably out fighting real crime?
They wouldn't be making many arrests, since possession of less than an ounce is just a ticket. But even before decriminalization, cops here are smarter than to waste time and resources on pot smokers who aren't bothering anyone. The goal of the police department isnt just to make the most arrests or write the most tickets.
Besides, BPD is too busy setting up stings on Molly dealers, since that's the drug getting all the headlines.
Tobacco smokers
The irony is there is more regulation targeting tobacco smokers than pot smokers. There are laws where you can and cannot smoke cigarettes. Laws about who can buy it, at what age, which stores can and cannot sell tobacco. But under the guise of "legalization", pot smokers think they can light up anywhere.
Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact
that tobacco KILLS and pot doesn't, would it?
If smoking is banned somewhere, smoking ANYTHING is banned there
meaning theatres, bars, restaurants, airplanes, MBTA stations and trains and buses, Fenway Park, the Garden, offices, etc. etc.
Doesn't matter if it's a tobacco cigarette, a cigar, a pipe, or a joint. (Not sure what the law says about e-cigarettes.)
What's pathetic is that it's
What's pathetic is that it's fine for a group of guys to smoke joint in the park, but I can't have a picnic lunch with a glass of wine. Give me a freaking break.
I just do not understand why
I just do not understand why anyone cares if someone else smokes pot. Sure, make it illegal in public. I personally do not partake anymore. I love my booze, and let me tell you, a drunk Joe is much more obnoxious than a high Joe.
Hey Bevis & Butthead
go smoke at home!
Clutch the pearls
Let's just get this goofy shit over with for 2013.
Who pays for the damage caused by these and other common demonstrations, protests, etc.,? Just curious. The commonwealth should legalize it so we won't need a 2014 protest. Screw the federal government.
You should trying reading this thing called "The News"
Denver's pot rally this year after legalization drew crowds as large as 10,000+ people.