Marijuana

[Massappeal]

Smoke W33d EvErYdAy!!!!

[Super Spy]

I wish I could get a doctors recommendation to own assault rifles.....

[Rhongman]

Maybe that is something that the police could focus more time and energy on if they weren't too tied up trying to enforce outdated marajuana laws

I'm not LE, but I have several friends and family in LAPD who share this poster's opinion.

Why have the LEOs on this thread quietly skirted around this response? Maybe because they agree but don't want to admit it?

[fullrearview]

I'm not LE, but I have several friends and family in LAPD who share this poster's opinion.

Why have the LEOs on this thread quietly skirted around this response? Maybe because they agree but don't want to admit it?

There are ways to deal with it... But those ways would violate the civil rights of those who are committing those crimes... The other way requires the victims to step forward and they wont. Would you?

[fullrearview]

As liberal as I am, marijuana should be decriminalize and not legalize.

It was this year. Possession of 28.5 grams or less is now an infraction, and a small fine... Which for smokers, is way better that legalization and huge amounts of tax!

[Rhongman]

There are ways to deal with it... But those ways would violate the civil rights of those who are committing those crimes... The other way requires the victims to step forward and they wont. Would you?

Those aren't the only options available. The other methods would require tons of money, which is the point. In our scenario, reduce the amount spent on enforcing petty drug offenses (marijuana), and hire more qualified officers so that the dept can implement more community based policing methods. There are thousands of college students graduating this year who probably won't be able to find a job in their original field of study. Many of them would be perfect police candidates.

I know that LAPD has a Community Policing Program. Sounds nice, but we don't have enough officers to actually get to know the people they serve. Hire more officers, maybe have them "walk the beat" literally. Get to know the shop owners and residents on a personal level. I bet you the business owner know the thugs who shakes him down better on a personal level than the officers who patrol his area.

You asked if I would go to the police for help if I was in that situation. No I would not, to be honest. But isn't that the problem? That has to change don't you think?

[Paper Boy]

I say 'gets by' because we loose close to 100,000 people a year due to alcohol. You wont find 100 deaths linked to cannabis (car crashes and such; no OD, because OD is 'impossible').

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wrong

"A study by the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research published in the British Medical Journal found that seven percent of drivers involved in a fatal highway crash used marijuana.The researchers estimated that at least 2.5 percent of the 10,748 fatal crashes studied were directly caused by the use of marijuana."

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/pot_driving.htm

"Twice as many drivers involved in fatal car accidents tested positive for marijuana compared with a group of other drivers."

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20051201/marijuana-raises-risk-of-fatal-car-crash

The problem before was there were no real studys, not that there we no deaths or accidents.

[Coded-Dude]

the problem is there is no way to tell if the driver was high at the time of the accident or high the day before, the week before, or even a month before; it can stay in your system for a while IIRC(this varies depending on many things). that's another reason why (I believe) it's illegal. You can't really test to see if a person is under the influence at the time of the test.