Were marijuana legal, it could not be cited by police as the reason why their "attention was drawn" to Keith Scott http://www.news-gazette.com/2016-09-24/police-videos-charlotte-shooting-no-gun-apparent-victims-hand.html …pic.twitter.com/VhpOd802lQ
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Ironically, police lobbies always vigorously oppose legalization, even though it'd make their jobs "safer" by reducing violent encounters.
Well, marijuana arrests offer an easy way to meet quotas, boost stats, etc. They're more interested in that than officer safety
and yet most cops I know are dead set against it.
Police lobbies have vigorously opposed legalization everywhere it's come up.
those w/ schizophrenia, wch marijuana is proven to cause & intensify symptoms of, disproportionally incite tense police encounters @mtracey
Trump supports the decriminalization of it I believe, and supports it for medical use.
I believe the Dare program & drug enforcement policies pay a good portion of police budgets.
The true cost of drug enforcement needs 2 account 4 incarceration & trials not just the enforcement. war on drugs will never be won
if someone wishes to use drugs, I doubt there is a law that will stop them. Rehab and treatment would be money better spent.
Nixon introduced to methadone clinics and crime in DC dropped to 55%
@Steveonomics
No, because the government perpetuates the drug war to incarcerate the black populous.
Cc: @billclinton
I think it is time face the obvious: drug policy is the way it is to justify oppressing grps of people.
Following the law is one blindingly simple policy for citizens to avoid all types of trouble with law enforcement.
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