Nobody opposes marijuana legalization except more than those who personally profit from prohibition. That much is easy to understand. What's not so easily understood are the arguments they use:
[El Centro Police Chief] McGinley says if pot is legalized in California, it will be a devastating blow to a battle law enforcement has been fighting for years.
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McGinley says the move would turn back the clock, and take away all the time and effort law enforcement has spent educating people on the dangers of drugs. [KSWT 13 News]
Actually, that time and effort is already gone. And I love how he uses the term "educating" as a euphemism for smashing down doors, handcuffing people and taking them to jail.
Still, if you think about it, his argument really strikes at the heart of why law enforcement tends to instinctively oppose fixing our drug laws. They've been "educating" the hell out of everyone for decades and hurting an awful lot of people in the process. It would be supremely embarrassing if it suddenly became clear to everyone that legalization actually works a lot better.
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Sunken Costs
“…if pot is legalized in California, it will…take away all the time and effort law enforcement has spent educating people on the dangers of drugs”—Police Chief McGinley.
In business lingo, this situation is called a sunken cost, which is treated by accountants as a business loss and nothing else. Assets do not include wasted money and effort. Trying to make things different by wasting more money, time and effort is bad business, or in this case, bad government.
…also referred to as throwing good money after bad, or paying for a dead horse.
As for educating people on the dangers of drugs: which drugs? And who says it’s education? Propaganda or prophylactic lying isn’t education. If the truth isn’t good enough to justify what you’re doing, drop it already. No one is going to ‘educate’ people who already have direct experiences with illicit substances. And for those who don’t, they will trust their experienced peers about drugs before they ever trust the prohibs.
Giordano
drug war addiction
Since when has Politics and Common Sense ever meshed? Never. Of course dope cops need job security. What else is an insecure egomaniac going to do except hide behind a badge and terrorize people ? They have to feed that sissy ego one way or the other. All dope cops are either on some drug or they have family members that are. Do they kick down their family`s door? Arrest their brother, son? It`s all a crock of shit. Remember = Common Sense.
drug education is tied up in knots by alcohol supremacism
Either they refuse to educate people on the issue of the relative dangers of alcohol and cannabis, which is obviously not doing their job; or they baldly lie and claim marijuana is more dangerous, destroying their credibility; or maybe they say they're equally deadly, which is still absurd, and bad for their credibility; or if the drug educators admit (are allowed to admit) that alcohol is far, far more likely to lead to violence and death, they preserve their credibility as educators, but the credibility of the law and the government/community is shot to hell.
Funny
The majority of citizens don't understand what it's like to be a cop. So when people bash cops, I get irritated but not really. I used to be an armed security guard patrolling in a vehicle in some ghetto ass places in San Bernardino County. Once I started about a couple days later, I smoked like a pack of cigarettes a day and drank two tall monster drinks a night. The stress, the driving, the traffic and the ghetto ass people all played a factor in me becoming a different person. The stress of not knowing if someone was going to shoot at me played in my head every night. It was starting to become to much stress for me to handle. When you tell someone to do something and they don't listen the first time you become Irate and you just start yelling without knowing it. Shit got out of hand a couple times and it was pretty crazy... So when cops are under stress every single freaking day out there in the streets. I kinda know what they feel like on an everyday bases. Some cops that I've talked to about the stress say that they've grown accustomed to it. So when you see cops getting out of hand on videos that are posted on website like youtube. You've got to think about what has that cop been through to be all messed up like that and so on...
What the cops should start doing is having a freaking Marijuana break on there days off and relax... lol... it sure as hell helped me deal with the stress for sure... lol
The funny part about my comment is that it has nothing to do with the article... lol... Cops should just start smoking the shit on there days off...
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