Pubdate: Thu, 15 Jan 2015
Source: Ashbury Park Press (NJ)
Copyright: 2015 Ashbury Park Press
Contact:  http://www.app.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5542
Author: Dominick Bucci

BUCCI: LEGALIZE POT, PUT DEALERS OUT OF BUSINESS

I spent 25 years in the New Jersey State Police, 22 of them as a
narcotics officer, and I support legalizing marijuana.

I have seen firsthand that marijuana sold on the street can be
adulterated with all kinds of additives including opium, PCP and
formaldehyde. I have seen street dealers, some as young as 12, selling
other drugs along with marijuana. Once, during a street operation in
Hoboken, I witnessed a 16 year-old male sell drugs to a 10 year-old
girl.

Legalizing and regulating marijuana will put street dealers out of
business and prevent many of these scenarios in the future.
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