By Brian Kyes and Edward A. Dunne
As police chiefs representing the memberships of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Massachusetts Major City Police Chiefs Association, we stand united and take this opportunity to express our utter displeasure, absolute outrage and quite frankly our sheer disappointment with an apparent cartoon that appeared in the April 15 edition of the Cape Cod Times.
This incredibly offensive and damaging caricature, titled the “Game of Life or Death” created by Mike Thompson of the USA Today Network, depicts police stopping a white motorist and sending them on their way, while a black motorist would be pulled from the vehicle at gun point and ending the stop with the loss of their life. This type of failed humor at the expense of brave law enforcement officers who put our lives in harm’s way each and every day to protect our respective communities is not only irresponsible and offensive, but also attempts to incite anger, violence an
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Should Massachusetts decriminalize psychedelic plants?
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By John Laidler Globe Correspondent,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Somerville, Cambridge, and Northampton have acted to significantly limit arrests for the possession, cultivation, and exchange of psychedelic plants. As an Army veteran and a volunteer for Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, I believe our Commonwealth should follow their lead by decriminalizing these substances.
Psychedelic plants like psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and ibogaine have life-changing spiritual properties. Older Massachusetts millennials suffer among the highest depression rates in the nation, yet one study found mushrooms are four times more effective in treating major depression than conventional medication. A recent analysis of clinical trials cited the benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy in treating PTSD and terminal illness anxiety. A single non-addicti
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