New live map shows 13 marijuana incidents and arrests in Boston weekly
An average of 13 people per week face police harassment or arrest because of marijuana in the City of Boston alone, Boston Police Department data show.
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An average of 13 people per week face police harassment or arrest because of marijuana in the City of Boston alone, Boston Police Department data show.
By Whitney A. Taylor, Political Director
This week, six professional legal associations joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts in calling on the state Supreme Judicial Court for a global remedy to the 24,000 unresolved cases stemming from the Dookhan drug lab scandal.
Photo: Members of the Massachusetts Election Modernization Coalition celebrate the option of early voting, available for the first time on October 24, 2016. Photo by Caley McGuane.
It must be terrifying to wake up in your own home in the early hours of the morning to a military-style weapon pointing in your face, with armed men shouting at you in a language you don’t understand.
The Supreme Judicial Court held today that existing law does not provide a "safety valve" from mandatory minimums sentences, while calling on the legislature to consider reforms to the mandatory minimum drug laws that have produced harsh racial disparities in Massachusetts.