Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
I am anything but ignorant.
I do disagree with the statement that the war on drugs is a war on the young simply because the young aren't the only ones who use drugs.
I also stand by the statements I made regarding the arrest rates for young tokers as opposed to older ones , young tokers are rarely activists and fail to realise that it's no good arguing with plod as they are simply doing thier job and have no power to change laws.
The laws are put in place by politicians and it is there that our attention must be focused , the cops are simply tools of the "justice system".

Teenagers frequently smoke outdoors because of parental objections , this makes them more visible than someone like myself who does most of thier toking in the privacy of my own home.
When toking outside most teenagers do so with a group of friends which can be a problem if the old bill happen to pass by because there will always be one twonk in the group who draws attention by thier totally paranoid reaction.

I hold with the idea that these are the main reasons that more youngsters than old hands get busted.

I was never under any illusion that the articles you posted were your own words , I was simply countering the information with my own view, that's kind of the whole point of forums.
Was the intention only to have those who agree in this thread ?
If so then you're definately going to be disappointed.
i agree with most of what u say, sounds reasonable, except that when it comes to legislature and the people to work on marijuana laws, its these very very same tools of the justice system and their bosses who start campaigns to keep the laws the way they are, just look at MA & MI for their local proposals and who is opposing them in public, its the DAs and Police unions and departments' chiefs

its crazy aint it? they are neutral law enforcers, until their interest and bread n butter is jeopardized (i know, we got good cops too, but generally speaking they are against any change in favor of marijuana in national and local law)

the savings savings that we chant on taxpayers money if this war stopped is their budget and salaries and raises and bonuses that we want to cut or at least force them to do the real policing on hard crimes and violent ones for the same or lesser thing