Guest Column: Cronies Get in on Marijuana  Guest Column: Cronies
Get in on Marijuana  There is something incredibly sleazy and
sordid about “retired” politicians getting rich selling
marijuana. Delahunt, Finneran, Buoniconti, Nuciforo, Lees are
just a few of the names linked to a medical marijuana regulatory
scheme administered by their cronies.  When there was an
opportunity to take a leadership role and to speak up against
marijuana prohibition, did they? Or did they acquiesce in what
has been perhaps the worst example of scapegoating and bigotry
in modern times, as they dismissed and ridiculed any reformer
who believed society could do better?  The medical marijuana
regulations in Massachusetts are a prime illustration of
bureaucrats running amok and going off the deep end with
ridiculous complexity. Similar things are happening elsewhere.
In Washington state, where full legalization was supposedly
passed, an individual citizen can get 10 years in prison for
growing a single plant, while government-approve