It's hard to make stoner jokes about this week's hearing for House Bill 625 (and corresponding Senate Bill 1161), which would “regulate the medical use of marijuana by patients approved by physicians and certified by the department of public health.” Sure some token pot smokers were on hand at the Massachusetts Statehouse, sporting homemade jewelry and Rasta head wraps for their testimonies before the Joint Committee on Public Health

Dr. Keith Saunders. As the president of the commonwealth’s official NORML chapter, Saunders was the voluntary sacrificial lamb at the rally this past Saturday. At 4:20pm, he took a small nugget and approached a police officer to provoke a $100 civil penalty, which, after much hilarity and stupidity ensued, he was finally given.