In previous editorials, we described the so-called Bathroom Bill as the death of common sense in Massachusetts. Here is another example.
The Boston Globereported on Wednesday that the Cannabis Control Commission has "unveiled an unusual training and mentoring program to help people from minority and low-income neighborhoods start or work in marijuana businesses." Unusual is the operative word!
The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill banning so-called "conversion therapy" for children – but only after dropping a provision that would have defined seeking it as child abuse.
The measure would make it illegal for licensed mental-health therapists to offer techniques for patients under 18 years old designed "to impose change on an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity," on pain of losing their license to practice.
