The sad mindset of rural cops...

Hey everyone.

I do a lot of work through MySpace promoting my website, Sinsebility.com, as well as campaigning for the passage of Nevada's Question 7 and Colorado's Ammendment 44 in this coming election. The people I target are as follows: all "smokers" over the age of 18, and non-smokers who drink who are over the age of 30, and in both cases I sort them to only friend-request people who have at least some college experience (since voting percentage goes up not only with age, but level of education).

Most of the replies I get are positive. Here are a couple I've gotten in the past week that are a little more disturbingly funny than the rest:

ANONYMOUS DOUCHEBAG 1:

"I'm a cop and how dare you send me this! All pot smokers need to be in jail where there are no trees to hug. If I wanted your input I would have asked it for you. Instead you contacted me. Another reason Pot should'nt be lelgalized is hippies smoking that shit can't write. Read your below message "No having to haul" should be "Not having to haul." Leave me alone and eat some chips or brownies."

ANONYMOUS DOUCHEBAG 2:

"I am a cop and I do not agree with your twisted thinking! Okay, don't you think my job would be a lot easier if all crime were made legal. Why should they make YOUR addiction legal. Wouldn't it have been easier on you if you would have stayed away from illegal drugs to begin with? And I did read your website. It's not that I am not open to someone else's perspectives, it's just that I think it is really childish and immature to spend all of your time trying to tell someone else what you think the world should be like and focusing on one bad part of it, instead of just trying to make yourself better. Maybe think about other pressing issues in the world involving drugs. Young kids are getting addicted to pot and then going to other drugs, and then some of them die, not just from the drugs but from the "scene". Drug dealers and drug users all could have been something better in life, but they all chose to focus on how to make their life legal instead of making the law their life or focuses. Instead of trying to educate everyone else on stupid issues, making you should educate yourself...The only people that think the world would be better with the legalization of pot and that pot isn't bad at all are the people that are addicted to it and know that the world would be easier, not for everyone but for them."

Both of these people have profiles that suggest they actually ARE law enforcement officers, and this is the way they think. Obviously the first dude was way worse (calling my insulting names, attacking my grammar when he doesn't even know simple capitalization and spelling himself), but the second "officer" seemed pretty damn misinformed as well. For example, they still buy wholeheartedly into the Gateway Theory when even anti-drug advocates have given that up in recent years. I'm also not sure where they get off assuming that my ONLY preoccupation in life is smoking weed, when in fact I AM a law student, and I work damn hard at it.

It's sad to think these are the people we trust with the power of the state, especially the first asshole - a man who can't even express an independent thought and instead relies on name-calling and saying that all "tree huggers" belond behind bars. Scary stuff...

P.S. Both of these people resided in rural towns of a couple thousand ppl, max. No shockers there.