Select board writes letter to Boston urging review of marijuana policy

Almost a year later, Carl Seppala, a select board member, volunteered to put together such a letter which was sent to Boston yesterday. On Jan. 22, the board decided to assemble a draft of the letter, saying that it “agrees that it is time to acknowledge that the doctrine supporting the current drug war has failed and to begin the serious consideration of alternatives.” The letter stated that “the misplaced focus of the drug war is eroding the civil rights associated with the Fourth Amendment.”