marijuana initiatives make it on the ballot

The push to make marijuana offenses a low priority for Santa Cruz police is part of a statewide effort to build support for changing state law to legalize the drug's use by adults, proponent Andrea Tischler said. Similar proposals have been made in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

Instead, Tischler said police should focus on violent crimes.

"We should be able to direct police to work on things we consider important," Tischler said. "We're talking about private use of marijuana. We're not talking about using it on the mall or minors or people driving a car."
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/arc...es/02local.htm

Like Teischler said, I think there's enough violent crimes to keep the police busy....why hassle harmless tokers!:thumbsup:

amen. i live near one of those areas, and i'd love to see it happen. i'm definately voting for legal home use.

The voices of rational drug law coming from law enforcement... poetic

Hey, don't knock it. If we weren't hearing law enforcement becoming more reasonable on this issue I would be worried. They have to live here too.

Honestly, if it wasn't for our drug war (especially on marijuana) and traffic tickets they would be our best friends again. As it is I can't even invite a cool LEO to one of my parties without risking going to jail.

I just wish the government would regulate drugs instead of criminalize them. Keep crack, coke, heroin and meth illegal, by all means. However, if the drug isn't physically addictive and doesn't cause more damage physically than alchohol then it should be sold, taxed and regulated in my opinion. Replace the dangerous law enforcement position with a regulatory one and we will all be happier. Seperate the most dangerous of the drugs and concentrate on them, eliminating them in an avalanche of LEO attention. This was the point of Mexico's controversial legislation Bush and our DEA pressured into dropping.

I want other choices, safer choices, than alchohol and I guess we'll keep pushing until we get them.

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don't forget about these guys... some cops aren't soo bad ;)

I don't find many cops to be bad honestly. They are people like us, most cool and some assholes. I reserve my disrespect and anger for the arrogant assholes who make bad laws and use law enforcement to shove them down out throats. For the people who make and influence our laws in ways that have nothing to do with the best interests of the American people.

Police have to live with that as well, in many cases even more than us.

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Originally Posted by newactivist

I don't find many cops to be bad honestly. They are people like us, most cool and some assholes. I reserve my disrespect and anger for the arrogant assholes who make bad laws and use law enforcement to shove them down out throats. For the people who make and influence our laws in ways that have nothing to do with the best interests of the American people.

Police have to live with that as well, in many cases even more than us.

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Some police are very reasonable people. I was attending Medical Marijuana Week, here in San Francisco and SGT. Baca let me use his lighter to re-light my joint. I then proceeded to have my picture taken with him and a few of his fellow officers, all arm in arm, smiling for the camera, with me in the middle.
dai*ma:stoned:
Have a nice weekend

America legalized "Marihuana" to support our troops during World War II.

http://www.chaozation.com/politics/hemp/HFV_video.htm

cool....I can just tell the bud is gonna get better as lawws loosen up in the area