We have to hand it to the district attorneys – they’re certainly not lacking in boldness.

Three of them – DAs Conley, Leone, and O’Keefe – admitted to the Boston Globe recently that they, like countless other Bay Staters, have used marijuana at some point in their life.

So what distinguishes them from the 7,500 Massachusetts residents arrested every year for low-level possession offenses? Nothing except that they didn’t get caught.