The War on Drugs just got a little smaller in Cambridge, Massachusetts this week.
On Monday, the city council voted 8-1 in favor of making arrests for entheogenic plants "amongst the lowest law enforcement priority" and calling on the Middlesex County District Attorney to stop prosecutions regarding such hallucinogens. As a result, the measure all but decriminalizes mushrooms, cacti, and ayahuasca in the city.
Boston Mayor and federal Secretary of Labor nominee Marty Walsh supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour but when speaking about minimum wage, he incorrectly stated his state's minimum wage.
Walsh said Thursday he thought minimum wage in Boston is $12.75 an hour. It was last year. However, it is now $13.50 an hour — an increase of 75 cents an hour that took place on New Year's Day this year.
