Folks who live in public housing here in Boston can start growing marijuana legally today. What else can they do with their taxpayer-funded electricity? Enjoy Verizon FiOS 150 mbps Internet:
The service can be installed now in Dorchester, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, … Boston has issued a cable TV license to Verizon covering just those neighborhoods … The company’s license with the city says Verizon may avoid installations in Boston when it is “commercially impracticable,” though this exception does not apply to public housing for low-income residents.
What if you don’t live in one of these low-income neighborhoods and/or a housing project?
Verizon told Ars today that it “plans to offer FiOS across the city over the next 6 years.”
How about if you hang out in government-owned real estate in the suburbs? The managers of our airport (dual civilian/military use) sent this email:
For those of you that are authorized to access Hanscom AFB as part of your normal operations at Hanscom Field, please make note of the following article related to upcoming legislative changes in the Commonwealth starting December 15th.
Excerpts from the article:
“Even though Massachusetts has passed legislation that decriminalizes marijuana possession, military installations are considered federal property, so nothing changes as it relates to bringing and or having drugs on base, even for civilians” said Maj. Joseph Bincarousky, Sr., 66th Security Forces Squadron commander. “If anyone is found on Hanscom Air Force Base in possession of or using marijuana, that person will be subject to the federal laws related to marijuana, not to the Commonwealth’s law.”
Capt. Christopher McNamee, 66 SFS operations officer, highlighted that base employees and residents will need prudence when sponsoring base visitors.
“When base residents and employees consider sponsoring visitors on base, they may want to tell their visitors that marijuana, and other illegal drugs, are not permitted on the installation,” McNamee said. “Sponsors are ultimately responsible for their visitors, and if they knowingly allow visitors to bring illegal substances, they will be held accountable.”
Criminal defense attorneys will be getting a bonus this coming year.
Perhaps MIT will grow more mellow.
The exact same federal drug laws that apply to Hanscom also apply in all of the rest of Massachusetts, right? So that Hanscom article could have been published by any outfit in the state.
Pretty soon one of the states is going to stop enforcing laws against fully automatic firearms and let the feds do it if they care. If the states can ignore federal laws on marijuana they can certainly do it also with fully automatic firearms too.