THE THIN BLUE LINE

There is NO EXCUSE for killing a police office. There is NO EXCUSE for keeping marijuana illegal.

We have required our police officers to enforce a law that lawyers and presidents disobey with glee.

We are keeping the stupid drug laws KNOWING that marijuana almost certainly cures cancer and relieves epilepsy symptoms.

And of course, people take out their frustrations on the police officers tasked with enforcing this increasingly stupid law.

If you think a police office is unprofessional, then you COMPLAIN EVERY TIME. Eventually, the number of complaints causes the officer to be investigated. If you are unhappy with the investigation, then it is trivially easy to take over a local government. All you actually have to do is VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION. There are usually plenty of local activists who will run for office if they think they have a chance.

OUR DRUG LAWS ARE PUTTING OFFICERS AT RISK. We ask them to enforce a law that most of us will not obey. Officers are not stupid. They know that arresting lawyers and presidential candidates will just end in grief for everyone involved. So IF they HAVE to show a statistical pattern of arresting for drugs, they will arrest the people who quietly go to prison. Such people are usually brown or black.

Of course, if a bent officer wants to control a judge or politician, then the easiest way is to arrest a child or grandchild for possession of an illegal substance.

ANY DRUG THAT IS LESS HARMFUL THAN ALCOHOL SHOULD BE LEGAL.

Did you know that the FDA can order researchers and doctors to BE SILENT about the merits of marijuana?