Someone should have dropped this case before it got this far. Retreat could have been the better part of valor for these towns so I'm glad they pushed it!
It is not the chief's discretion at issue here, MGL prohibits the issuance to anyone convicted of possessing even 1 joint (statutory lifetime DQ) and it doesn't matter if it was a single incident 80 years ago! So Comm2A is actually going after the state law with this suit.