Massachusetts voters last week, including 65 percent of Milford voters and 66 percent of Framingham voters, approved Ballot Question 2 to decriminalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Now what?

For area law enforcement officials, the answer prompts a long list of more questions. Among them:

Who is going to maintain the registry for the offense?

How are the police going to be trained?

What happens if someone doesn't pay the fine?

"The only thing I can see clearly is that there is going to have to be a little more time to figure things out," said Norfolk District Attorney William Keating. "This was never thought through."

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