Comments on: Ex-Cop Gives Tips On How To Hide Drugs

Former Texas Drug Cop Makes Video Titled 'Never Get Busted Again'

[blahblahbla5]

Agnim, you're advocating jailing a cop for excercising his right to free speech? You're proving the point - the War on Drugs is nothing but a totalitarian enterprise that destroys the Constitution and emboldens Un-American busybodies such as yourself.

"Drugs" (which includes caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, prescription drugs, "herbal" remedies, and currently-illegal drugs) are inanimate objects.

The only "clear and present danger" to Americans is attitudes such as yourself. This police officer is not doing this to get rich, and he's clearly as as serious as a heart attack, and your suggestion he should be jailed for speaking out merely betrays your abhorrent attitudes towards freedom and liberty.

[agnim]

"Everyone in this country contributes to the destrustion of the american nervous system in one way or another....that is unless they live in the mountains and don't pee in the streams.

Posted by RonaldStark at 12:05 PM : Dec 22, 2006"

Can I tell you that your response is infantile?

Drugs represent CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEMS OF AMERICANS, PARTICULARLY THE YOUNG ONES!

I have to think that this foolish ex-policeman is joking; but even so they should have jailed him a bit as a joke reaction to his mindless little game.

[blahblahbla5]

By the way, the War on Drugs *is* primarily a war against marijuana smokers.

Please check out this article:

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7040

Quote:

Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 88 percent some 696,074 Americans were charged with possession only. The remaining 90,471 individuals were charged with "sale/manufacture," a category that includes all cultivation offenses even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. In past years, roughly 30 percent of those arrested were age 19 or younger.

And there you have it. The War on Drugs is a national disgrace, committed primarily against consensual, private marijuana users. This is a farce.

Another good site (called "Truth: The Anti-Drug War"). Note all the data on the site is US government, grade-A choice data, and all meticulously sourced:

http://www.briancbennett.com/

[blahblahbla5]

First, the idea that this guy is doing this video to get rich is ridiculous. For a successful ex-narcotics officer, there are many, MANY other avenues to make money, such as consulting, working in private industry, training, et cetera. And that's only for the "legit" ones. Second, I am in recovery myself. I consider myself a marijuana addict, and possibly an alcoholic as well. I have no place in my life for this stuff right now.

However, I think throwing people in jail for consensual, private behaviors is one of the most abhorrent things possible in a supposedly "free" society. This guy is providing a public service, and probably is trying to make up for all the harm he has done to people in his years as a narc cop.

Of course marijuana should be legalized. Yesterday. The only thing that a free society should regulate is your behavior towards others. Anything beyond that is Orwellian nonsense for insecure busybodies. The War on Drugs is communist totalitarianism, American-style.

[ronaldstark]

if pot was legal in the US it would be legalized mostly everywhere. How many countries had laws against pot before DuPOnt...I mean the US gov't had it banned? Do the research and you will see we forced most countries to make it illegal.

[elpuma2]

Think of the great job these police officers and DEA agents could be doing by fighting real crime
instead of attemting to enforce ridiculous marijuana abatement and prostitution laws?

[stanleyrice]

Mr. Sanders, as with George Bush, believes he is on the light side and anyone who believes differently is demonized as being on the dark side! Interesting! There is no difference between the guys with the badge and the demonized, except which side of the bars they stand on.

[xenalily]

RonaldStark- here are a few things that keep me from believing that marijuana should be legalized and that it would save the US so much money:
just as growers and distillers regulate the production and standards of purity for alcohol, marijuana would have to be cultivated and regulated and tested. Then does the US government start cutting subsidies and paying American farmers to grow pot because it isn't legal overseas so they can't import it? What keeps the drug from being stolen from US subsidized farmers in this country and being put on the black market for sale in another country where it isn't legalized? How may people in the US would realistically support having their tax dollars used to subsidize marijuana farmers only to have that money lining the pockets of thieves when the crops are stolen? There aren't enough countries in the world who have legalized pot to make a profitable export and the US government would be so busy catching up with those smuggling it out of this country that it would more than likely equal the amount they are currently wasting to catch those bringing it into this country. We can't even regulate immigration how could we regulate marijuana?

[nadeau4201]

reddrubydoo... hell yeah!!!!!!
My 6 year old asked a cop once "Shouldn't you be at a doughnut shop somewhere?" Ah I guess my hard work paid off. The only thing these a**holes serve and protect is their own interest. I tell my kids to watch out for them and to know your rights because in my town I live near the state police barracks and they love pulling over teenagers just for the hell of it. They treat everyone as suspect and it's no wonder why some people hate them. Oh and stupidpig144 go smoke a dooby you sound a little up tight.

[peaceforusa]

Legalize Marijuana, tax it like cigarettes and alcohol...government wins through the extra tax monies it collects and all the people who enjoy getting high can do so, and the taxpayers get rewarded because they can finally release all the prisoners that are in prison on marijuana charges and they can go to work instead of us paying for them. Just don't get high and drive or you will be cited for DUI just like alcohol. That should be the law of the land!!!