MA Essex County DA Jonathan Blodgett Repeatedly Lies and Misrepresents the Truth About Marijuana Decrim Question 2. Lies, Lies, Lies.

MA Essex County DA Jonathon Blodgett, Whitney Taylor, Emily Rooney, Steven Epstein, James White discuss MA marijuana decrim initiative Question 2 and MA DA Jonathan Blodgett repeatedly lies, misrepresents, changes the subject and seems a little bit out of it....

Reefer madness.

Lie #1. Sorry, Jon, Marijuana is not addictive, nor is it universally stronger today than it was 20 years ago.

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3418#question8
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6603

Lie #2 The marijuana reform side was talking about people being in jail for a joint? Not true. Nobody with CSMP or James White for that instance are talking jail. They are talking tax savings and no criminal record for life so people can get a job.

Lie #3. It's bogus to say a CORI for pot stops one from getting a job? A CORI is for life unless one tries to get it sealed after waiting 10 years after a CWAF that he talks of. Or immediately after being found innocent. But it doesn't help because as the lawyer Mr. Epstein notes the employer can see that you have a sealed record which immediately raises red flags. So an arrest in MA right now for cannabis for one joint is indeed a lifetime punishment for those in certain fields of work. Many jobs check the CORI. Look at boston.com and check the security jobs, "No criminal record", "Cori check" , hotel chains and just above minimum wage jobs, they all check the CORI. Not being able to get a job leads to increased crime. You'd think a DA would care about that. You'd be wrong.

Lie #4
No data on decrim in other states?
http://sensiblemarijuanapolicy.org/news/1/what-law-enforcement-smoking-oppose...

Lie #5, The numbers (cost savings) are bogus.
http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2004/09-17/legalize.html
Laurence Kotlikoff, the chairman of the CAS economics department, adds that Miron is one of the most knowledgeable economists in the world on this particular issue and that his conclusions are worth taking very seriously.
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/endorsers.html
500+ economists agree with Jeff Miron. 3 of them are Nobel Laureate economists vs. Jonathan "Change the Subject" Blodgett.

Lie #6, do I even need to get to this one. The craziest statement of all and from a working MA DA. James White was arrested, cuffed, he was not smoking pot or doing it in front of a cop. I know this for a fact and many the same. In MA people are often arrested for just having some pot on them. It's up to the officer's discretion. I'm sure white folks often get a pass compared to the minority groups Blodgett professes to be following the lead of....

http://sensiblemarijuanapolicy.org/
http://masscann.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLm1Z7oa7RI

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[WarCrime911]

That's why they want to put drug dealers in a "big house" together so they can meet other drug dealers and further their criminal networks and behaviors. I know all about their corrupt system and who it functions to benefit.

The War on Terror and the War on Drugs are both CIA manufactured WARS ON FREEDOM!

watch?v=oszATUJ4IRE

watch?v=EAYwcRnyxJw

[WarCrime911]

These guys are scum bags who profit off the illegality of drugs! The only reason they are protesting this bill is "JOB SECURITY"!

Think About it!

[WeAskThePeople]

THANKYOU DRUG WAR.. you are a COLLOSSAL FUCK UP  ...

[murmur5555]

DA Jonathan Blodgett also lied about the prone restraint death of Mr. Kenneth Howe of Worcester at the hands of the Mass State Troopers. Google: Asphyxial Death During Prone Restraint Revisited: 21 Cases. This is probably how they killed David Woodman as well.

Other mechanisms of death include: Commotio Cordis from blow to the chest wall, choke hold causing cardiac arrhythmia, and "Voodoo Death" from overwhelming fright causing cardiac arrest.

He's a dirt-bag.

[awdammit2]

To drug or not to drug, that is the. . . What were we talking about again ?

[IFlick]

This is one of those individuals who would surely have you executed if at all humanly possible. Men, women, children, the elderly, sick, dieing would make no difference whatsoever. Smoking marijuana would result in an automatic and irrevocable death sentence. In the eyes of this man, smoking marijuana is such an reprehensible crime, the youngest child could not hope for mercy. This person would execute your family in front of you to make his point. Quite similar to the Nazi outlook on Jews.

[Nigomsa]

I amon probation for possesion of UNDER 2.5 GRAMS! of marijuana..........

Fuck these fags that want to keep it illegal... it will never be legal in my life so fuck it good bye corrupt world.

[AmericasGoingToHell]

I live in Essex County and I've had to deal with the court system before. They'r all a bunch of liars.

[thebackwardszero]

"Nicklebag" hahahaha

[theycallmeming]

Jonathan Blodgett DOESNT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE IS TALKING ABOUT.. AND IS A LIAR

[theycallmeming]

BOZO