Pubdate: Wed, 30 May 2012
Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
Copyright: 2012 East Valley Tribune.
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Author: Mike Ross

COPS LOVE GOING AFTER MARIJUANA USERS

The "drug war" is just a jobs program for overpaid and under-worked
cops. It's takes lots of work to hunt down and arrest real criminals
like burglars, robbers, rapists and murders. That's why cops love the
"drug war!"

It's much easier and safer to arrest harmless people for victimless
drug war crimes then it is to hunt down real criminals. All the cops
have to do is illegally stop and search 100 people and they can
usually arrest one or two of them for victimless "drug war" crimes.
And at the end of the day the cops will brag they are making the
streets safer by arresting these harmless people who's only crime is
laughing too loud or eating too much after smoking a doobie.

Of course the police say that drugs cause crime. That is a lie. It's
the laws against drugs that cause crimes. Because marijuana is illegal
an ounce of weed is going to cost anywhere from $50 to $300. And of
course sometimes people do steal because they can't afford the high
black-market prices of drugs.

If marijuana was legalized you could buy a kilo of weed for no more
then a head of lettuce costs. And of course that would pretty much put
an end to people stealing because of the high cost of black-market
drugs.

It's time to legalize drugs and make the cops hunt down real
criminals.

Mike Ross
Tempe
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