Pubdate: Fri, 18 Oct 2002
Source: Pahrump Valley Times (NV)
Copyright: 2002 Pahrump Valley Times
Contact:  http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1125
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1531
Author: Michael Lind
Cited: Marijuana Policy Project ( www.mpp.org )
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?162 (Nevadans for Responsible Law 
Enforcement)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?163 (Question 9)

MORE OPINIONS ON POT FROM NEAR AND FAR (5 OF 6)

With only weeks to go, the Nevada ballot initiative to legalize marijuana 
is in a dead heat. Are some police officers breaking the law in their 
desperate scramble to try to defeat it? A few hostile police in Las Vegas 
may have.

A few days ago, they removed three ounces of marijuana from an evidence 
locker and waved it around on national TV in an attempt to show that three 
ounces is too much for personal use.

By doing this, the police may have broken the law, which states that they 
can only possess drugs in the context of performing official duties-not to 
use them in a political campaign.

And they may have broken the law a second time by campaigning against the 
initiative while on the clock; taxpayer money cannot be used to pay their 
salaries while they are campaigning against the initiative. The MPP 
campaign must be fed up with cops who think they are above the law, and 
these rouge cops should be prosecuted.

Michael Lind

Ojai, Calif.
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