FEB. 22, 2022.....When the Judiciary Committee took a single vote earlier this month to effectively spike Gov. Charlie Baker's drugged driving legislation and hundreds of other bills, nearly two-thirds of the panel was on board.

Eleven of the Judiciary Committee's 17 members voted in favor of an order that sent to a study Baker's bill aimed at better empowering police to detect when motorists are under the influence of marijuana, all but dooming the chances of action this year on reforms the Republican governor has pitched as a matter of life and death.