Law enforcement officials are concerned that marijuana busts, and their ability to arrest people for driving under the influence of drugs, will go up in smoke after the state’s highest court ruled this week that the odor of burnt marijuana does not give police enough...
Well, the chickens of that 2008 ballot law decriminalizing marijuana possession have definitely come home to roost. The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled that the odor of burnt marijuana is no longer enough to allow police to order people out of their car — not...
The state’s highest court, overturning precedent and denying police a crime-fighting tool, ruled yesterday that the odor of marijuana smoke is not enough for officers to order a person out of a parked car, now that possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is no...
In a move that could further weaken the state’s marijuana regulations, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has made it tougher for investigators to sniff out possible pot crimes. The SJC ruled Wednesday that the odor of marijuana wafting from a car is no...
Local law enforcement officials say the state Supreme Judicial Court took away an important drug enforcement tool when it ruled that the odor of burnt marijuana is not enough for police to suspect criminal activity. “They took a tool out of our toolbox with this...
