MASSACHUSETTS
In response to Jeff Sessions’ childish revoking of the Cole memo, Massachusetts State Representatives Dave Rogers and Mike Connolly filed a “Refusal of Compliance Act,” which would prevent local and state authorities from handing over people who follow state cannabis laws to federal agents.
“… I do think there’s something to the idea that by decriminalizing something, you take it out of the shadows. And then the incentives are not there for the bad guys to do massive criminal sales. Again, you wouldn’t have heard it from me when I was in the Justice Department.”
Former Gov. and Federal Prosecutor Bill Weld
Tom Tancredo
U.S. Representative
"Throughout my career in public policy and in public office, I have fought to reform or eliminate wasteful and ineffective government programs. There is no government program or policy I can think of that has failed in such a unique way as marijuana prohibition."