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What will the United States look like after voters re-legalize marijuana?
We’ll get to see fairly soon. California residents will likely make cannabis legal when they vote on the issue in November. Among other things, the Tax, Regulate and Control Cannabis Act will free up quite a bit of police time and energy.
Ever since 1937, and especially since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971, law enforcement officers have obediently put the handcuffs on people who smoke marijuana. It’s part of the status quo: police officers arrest people who smoke weed. Everyone knows that buying, possessing, and smoking marijuana is illegal. But it seems that the status quo is changing.
Law enforcement officers are the front line soldiers in the War on Drugs, and they see the worst parts of society on a daily basis. Then why are more and more cops throwing their support to marijuana legalization? Even the top DEA agent in the country, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, has stated that the Obama Administration does not approve of the term “the War on Drugs.”
Don’t take it from me: watch the video to the left. It features former police chief Norm Stamper, a member of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a pro-legalization group. Listen to his arguments and ask yourself, "what is the point of the War on Drugs?"
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