Police Speak Out Against Marijuana Prohibition and the Drug War

You know who profits from marijuana sales in the U S of A? Everyone involved. People who use it are no longer going to be jailed, peoples businesses will not be broken into unlawfully and ripped up from the ground, sick people will be able to live longer and more fullfilling lives, jobs will be created by farmers, brokers, and retailers alike, while at the same time less people will be losing thier job due to drug tests, easing the burden of government unemployment, which will trickle into welfare, bringing down the percentage of people in the US who are on it, and last ( and probably least in my eyes) the US can tax it and use it to send more of our kids to school so they can work, or whatever they are really going to do with it.

I wonder who really profits from marijuna sales in the good ol US of A ?

As much as pot smokers annoy me (sorry Current users) I cannot deny the logic of the pro legalization argument, and have agreed with it for some time. If someone like me believes in decriminalization, I wonder how it could possibly still be an issue.

bout time they finally started getting the picture

But where does it stop....that is what worries me.

Politicians like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were afforded the luxury of lies. Ronald Reagan was allowed to make this statement and no one corrected him. Everyone just moved along.

"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan

Politicians should be held accountable when they lie! Because the costs are too high, when they are allowed to lie.

Political philosopher and right wing conservative hero to millions of PBS TV fans, for 40 plus years, founder of the National Review Magazine William F. Buckley, and Nobel Prise winning economist Milton Friedman, "Father" on today's "let the miracle of the free market rule," both advocated that drugs be legal, sold and taxed like any other products in a capitalistic society.

After Buckley advocated this I think too strongly, he and his talk show "Fireing Line" was off PBS.

What Buckley predicted was that if "street" drugs remain illegal, the constantly high demand for them would be so high, and the supply would be so low, the underground ecomomy of those supplying thes drugs would become richer and stronger than many governments. Some governments might end up actually belonging to the drug cartells: either by simple purchase of power by bribery, or through controlling of banks through the weight of their huge off-shore secret laundered deposites.

I noticed one of the first things the Reagan administration did upon taking office in 1980, was to abolish President Carter's executive order that all banks disclose to the government all deposits and transfers of amounts over 10,000 dollars, for routine checking to discourage money laundering by drug pushsers and suppliers and organized crime. And to help find these criminals to begin with. Reagan agreed with the banks' objections that this was an "invasion of privacy of some of their best customers, and would cost them too much to comply.

Shortly afterword Nancy came out with her forcefull "Just say no to drugs" public relation's slogan. The Central Intelligence Agency supplied cocain to the United States during this period, and into the George Bush I era even more. Please see the writings of Gary Web regarding Reagan-Bush-CIA drug smuggling during the Reagan-Bush years. Web committed "suicide" by shooting himself twice in the head while investigating this story, not too long ago.

Marlboro Green does have a nice sound.

I never thought that there would be a police organization devoted to legalizing pot. That's awesome! I've heard from a small number of individual cops that they're not going to go through any real effort to find a small amount of pot but none that came out and said "This is stupid. Legalize it." I'm going to pray to Bob Marley's spirit tonight and tell him about this.

Cannabis should have never been illegal in the first place.
Voted up for being the voice of reason.

Let's do it! Always envisioned going to the store for a pack of Marlboro Green.

definitely a progressive step from police...

love this post

Damn Sttraight

"It's easier for teenagers to get marijuana than alcohol," Gray said. "That's because alcohol is regulated and controlled by the government, and illegal drugs are controlled by drug dealers. They don't ask for IDs."

This is so true in my own personal experience. I tried smoking first time when I was 9, I got drunk first time when I was about 12. I consistently smoke from age....ehhh about 15 onwards. I only picked up drinking a little before turning 21. I rarely get drunk, but I always get high. This is the theme for the vast majority of my friends.

Throughout highschool I had no trouble and any one that looked for it had no trouble getting weed, oxycontin, xanax, and some other goodies. Alcohol was always impossible to get unless you had older siblings or friends.

even dick cops are tired of arresting people that aren't causing any problems.