"I just hope they never hear about hiding drugs in coffee."

DFrost


Yeah....If he's using that as a major selling catch then this CD will probably be as lucrative as his other business ventures.

Howard

I'll be honest. I think there is a disproportunate amount of law enforcement resources going into enforcing laws about marijuana. I'm NOT condoning it, I would never do such a video (seems to be just a cash making scheme)or other anti law enforcment, pro criminal sort of program.
But, if you asked me to vote on a referendum to loosen up the the laws on weed depending on the form it took I might be convinced if I thought it would rid us of some problems and free us up to catch bigger fish.
My biggest issue is the black market, organized crime part of the distribution and use of marijuana. This is the bad part. I quite honestly don't see a lot of violent crimes perpetrated by the guy that smokes weed. Just the blackmarketeers that live through his habbit. If there were a way to break that cycle I could be convinced.
Problem though, Holland legalized so called soft drugs and in discussing it with law enforcement there they say it was a bad idea. They still have drug crime (one reason they sought to legalize it was to decrease drug related crime), they still battle with hard narcotics, and they still have a black market for the soft narcotics.
Not sure how to get out of the problem we have. My state is battling with the chronic DWI offender and the only thing I'm seeing is new laws and actions against retailers, restaurants, bars, and no real improvment from year to year. Every legislature we get increased enhancements on the laws and greater fines, penalties, longer prison terms, and more people brought into the loop of responsibility and penalized for not following and endless litany of laws, ordinances, and regualtions that have been implemented.
So, if someone has an answer let us all know.
In the mean time I have a job to accomplish and that includes hunting down, capturing, and arresting the folks that choose to violate the laws implemented by our community.. I don't have any interest in helping people violate them even if I don't always wholeheartedly agree with them.

look kevin,
idont know how it goes in the usa but here approximately 90%
of the hard drugs addicted started with light drugs as afirst step than was the harder and harder and just than came the nidelles and pins...
iknow... before the pot there were probably in most cases the cigarettes but the light drugs is aheavy step, give it alegitimization from the law and see where it shall take you in the
addiction statistics and the heavy drugs demands and supply...
sefi.s
israel.

Well, let's just say I'm a child of the 60's (I have a problem remembering some of them) that said, Kevin has stated what a lot of law enforcement officers in the US feel. While I've sworn to uphold the laws as written, and I do, I don't have to agree with all of them. I don't have an answer, wish I did. I've also looked at what Holland thought would be a fix, it isn't working. The wave of violence that is so recognizable in our communities is not generally the weed users. Crack and meth can be thanked for that. Any violence associated with weed is generally from witin the organizations/gangs or whatever and are turf wars. While I have smoked cigarettes, and there may have been a time in my past where I might have rolled one with someone, it hasn't yet led me to "hard" drugs. I don't know what the answer is, I don't know if it's decriminalization, I think education has helped. The sad truth is, there is an appetite and as long as that exists, and there is the staggering amount of money that can be made, we (those of us that work interdiction) have job security.

DFrost

Well this idiot who is trying to get rich off "helping" scums should consider having his tape done in spanish, cause from what i hear the ones that move most of the Weed are spanish speakers.
I guess he was not cut out to be a Good cop, so why not join the enemie, but hey what he is trying to do, Attorneys do it all the time.

Decriminalizing weed wont make things any easier for law enforcement. If a person is going to smoke weed they dont care if its legal or illegal. If they are worried about the law they might feel safer smoking marijuana because they wont get a tough sentence if caught. It's a real head scratcher for sure.

Education is good but I believe the parents play a huge role in how much dope their children end up doing. There's a big difference between experimenting with drugs, and doing them with your parents, or their devil may care attitude in what their kids do.

Howard