Rolling Stone Magazine: Five Reasons Cops Want To Legalize Marijuana

I call bullshit. There's huge profits to be had in the prohibition industry. They don't give a fuck about public safety unless there's a buck to be made. Which is probably what the rolling 4th Reich stone article is really about.

I don't think the article in claiming that the entire law enforcement industry feels this way. There is a growing element that does though and they are speaking out about it through organizations like L.E.A.P. The article quotes Norm Stamper who was the former police chief of Seattle and also Stephen Downing - the former L.A. Deputy Police Chief. Unfortunately a lot of these individuals can't speak out about how they feel about the 'War On Drugs' until they are retired. It's taboo for current officers/officials to speak publicly about it because of the political B.S. surrounding the current status quo and police chiefs/officials that might otherwise support this cause 'off the record' are afraid of speaking publicly & the stigma of being labeled 'soft on crime' by the otherwise uninformed public who cannot recognize the detrimental environment that's been created by our current 'approach' to the drug problem.

You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. This isn't a bunch of potheads sitting around a fire dreaming up a way to end prohibition, this is a group of dedicated, long term professional law enforcement officers (most of whom probably do not partake). They are smart enough to realize that the current approach has not been working, and in fact is increasing drug use statistics.

Your opening statement clearly shows you have a bias, but if you examine the entire issue objectively, one cannot help but come to the same conclusion. In fact, I would go so far as to say it's a pretty sad example of your "intelligence" when you are advocating for more of the same approach that has NOT worked for DECADES, and has only served to make governments and the prison industrial complex even more rich and corrupt, while at the same time criminalizing an entire group of otherwise law abiding citizens (which the vast majority of pot smokers are, minus the fact they smoke weed).

Unfortunately, people such as yourself rarely have the mental strength to break out of their programmed "drugs are bad" conditioning, and so I will leave you to wallow in your own ignorance (and no doubt smug sense of superiority over "drug users").

Because then they wouldn't have to steal it from the evidence room to get high?!?!?

True. Not only the whole "soft on crime" thing, but if you look at it from a cop's point of view, advocating to repeal prohibition is like advocating for a huge pay cut.

Right on brother!

Why is it that people always assume that if you are in favor of drug law reform, that you are a drug user? I know tons of people who don't do drugs who are smart enough to see how damaging the current system is. Is it really that difficult to comprehend?

because after having a pack of 'winny heads', instead of that third tipple bourbon, at 4 in the morning, you're more likely to have pizza than a punch up.....

Just wanted to add to the money making machine:
privatized prisons-for-profit (modern day gulags)

Pretty sure you guys did not legalize marijuana but decriminalized it. These are not the same thing.

I want full legalization and not a decriminalization status.

Either way I need some wake and bake.

that is another valid reason to not legalize mj

How in the hell is that a valid reason to not legalize?

Oh bullshit, I know cops, those fuckers get stoned off of, and sell more "Evidence" than you could ever know. Audits prove that on average less than 1/3 of the drugs that make it into evidence lockers actually gets destroyed...

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I have read that MJ is the number one cash crop in Ca. That is a lot of missed revenue unless it was taxed like tobacco or alcohol. Just follow the money. Afghanistan is the worlds largest grower of opium poppies. Just follow the money. Columbia corners the market on coca bushes and coke production. Again you just have to follow the money trail. Who is getting rich and who has the politicians in their pocket. I can make beer, wine, even whisky with a permit but I can't grow hemp, opium poppies or coca bushes. Yet I can walk a block away and buy anything I want in any quantity I can afford. Turn on, tune, drop out.

But the truth of it all is here:

[link to www.jackherer.com]
Please read at least chapter 1, know your history people!

Hey, kiddies, it all about the TAX revenue, remember? Just like corn whisky, as long as the federals and statistisa get their tax revenue they be cool.

Next up for prohibition, Potatos and Tomatos.

Or, in short, you couldn't respond to any of the very valid points I made. And that made you mad.

So?

kills more ? marijuana doesn't kill at all idiot.

So marijuana is bad.

OK.

i'm going to go work for the pot destruction team :) MAAHAHAH cough* MAAHAHAHA cough*

I just talked with a good friend who's a LEO (forgive me, I'm not mentioning for what agency or where for obvious reasons), and he said many of the same things to me. Obviously, they still have to treat it as the crime it is, but he says the attitudes internally are changing as LEOs are getting tired of being put in such dangerous positions over such a harmless drug.

Wish I could be more specific but this is one of the few good guys, don't want to put him in any kind of bad spot for sharing his views with me!

What were you saying?

As always, follow the money to see who's in charge.

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+1

you hungry man... damn. i think we need pizza.......

^^^^
this. I believe this is a huge part of the debacle.

It doesn't matter what the cops want or feel about legalization or decriminalization or whatever because it is Government that will NEVER change the way things "work" for one BIG reason:

Search & Seizure!

They steal 100's of billions (maybe trillions actually) from all sides in the "War", Cartels, Distribution, Users AND Taxpayers. The Government will NEVER give up that cash cow.

When an adult uses marijuana, they sort of "revert" back to their childhood, experiencing a suspension of disbelief and a willingness to try new experiences, discover the exotic within familiar and everyday routines, and to surrender to fun and joy.

Childrens' brains are still forming, and they should be allowed to experience the brief "childhood" years naturally and unspoiled.

How could an adult "go back" to childhood if it had never been allowed to happen?

That is why the oft repeated claims that the THC content of weed is supposed to have gone up so much-they based the historic % on what had been seized, and was still in evidence lockers 20 years later.

How bad does weed have to be to still be in the evidence locker 20 years later???