Comments on: Marijuana Busts: ‘Where The Money Is’ For Police

By: johnny1

johnny1 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:32:11 +0000

how many teachers get laid off?

chasing a plant cost thousands, helicopters, personnel

tax and regulate

By: Bob Constantine

Bob Constantine — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:51:35 +0000

Self ownership is what happens in a free country. Does anybody remember that, the day after ahem “independence day”? When peaceful people are prohibited from owning themselves, at the point of a gun or threat of incarceration who is the real criminal?

I thought government was supposed to PROTECT individuals rights of self ownership rather than submit arrest victims as trophies and collect the “bounty” to advance even more police aggression against people that harmed nobody.

Bottom line, if we live in a country that can tell YOU what you can or cannot put into your OWN body, there is no independence, no self ownership.

Without self ownership, there is slavery. The prohibited substance is irrelevant, if YOU don’t control YOUR body, somebody else does, THAT is slavery.

By: Gonzobot

Gonzobot — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:09:17 +0000

I love how much sense that makes. Fund anti-crime based on how much crime they stop? Doesn’t that mean that when there is 1 crime left, that they can’t solve, they will never have the funds to solve it?

And what the hell? They get half a million of federal funds to do ONE THING, except they can’t actually use the federal money for some of the expenses, so they have to spend their own budget on it? Wouldn’t it make sense to, I dunno, NOT waste $350,000 in the first place, and then save however much in overhead it would cost?

Christ. Is the real solution to the burgeoning police state actually ACCOUNTING?

By: yes19

yes19 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:11:01 +0000

Stop the waste of law enforcement resources. Stop racially biased arrests. Support California Proposition 19 to regulate, control and tax cannabis. Visit http://yes19.org

By: Norman Lepoff, M.D.

Norman Lepoff, M.D. — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:33:41 +0000

Very good idea!

By: RJ

RJ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:06:32 +0000

plants lots of poison ivy around the fields

By: Norman Lepoff, M.D.

Norman Lepoff, M.D. — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:34:20 +0000

Legalizing Cannabis will empty half of our prisons. and result in a substantial decrease in prosecutors, cops, parole officers, probation officers, and prison guards all of whom suck the life blood out of our economy with their exorbitant, overly inflated and undeserved salaries, benefits and pensions.

By: Norman Lepoff, M.D.

Norman Lepoff, M.D. — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:31:49 +0000

Besides what may be stolen from the evidence room, does anyone really believe that when they say they got one ton of something, that they really got one ton? No. They probably stole 4 tons, as one makes it into evidence.

Prohibition is the biggest cash cow the cops have ever had. They will fight to the death to keep the status quo.

The Arrest and Prosecution Industry is determined to maintain the war on marijuana, at the expense of our citizens. Law enforcement officials are not motivated by maintaining public safety. They are motivated by one thing: job security. These people are not out to protect people; they are out to fight a literal war on marijuana, medical or otherwise. As they fight this war, they do their utmost to ensure that we remain awash in alcohol, cocaine, meth and heroin, the substances that contribute most to the crime, violence and corruption that keeps them busy and wealthy.

By: D. L. Snead

D. L. Snead — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:19:52 +0000

Nicely written article by Mr Elliot. To us, it seems a taxpayer funded rat-hole of pot prohibition failure. But to police, prosecutors, prison guards, and other drug war camp followers, it is a gravy-train of perpetual pot busts and other make-work. To authoritarians, pot prohibition is an easily made sop to police – where police (and military, think: Praetorian Guard) return the favor to those politicians.