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US NV: Edu: PUB LTE: Retired Cop Says 'Vote Yes On Question 7'

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1410/a10.html
Newshawk: The GCW
Votes: 1
Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2006
Source: Rebel Yell, The (U of NV at Las Vegas, NV Edu)
Copyright: 2006 The Rebel Yell
Contact: http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/letters-to-the-editor.php
Website: http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1362
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1393/a07.html
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge

RETIRED COP SAYS "VOTE YES ON QUESTION 7"

To the Editor,

As the debate takes place on October 17th, keep this in mind. 

As an organization of hundreds of law enforcement professionals, we support the Nevada effort to have the governement, not criminals, regulate marijuana.  Marijuana prohibition reduces public safety.  Road officers in Nevada will spend about as much time searching for a baggie of pot, as they do searching and arresting DUIs.  Detectives/narcs who bust those who sell adults an ounce of pot are not at that moment searching for child molestors, rapists and those breaking into our homes. 

During my 18 years of police service I was dispatched to zero calls generated by the use of marijuana.  What else do you need to know that pot use by adults in their home is not worth police time?

Officer Howard J.  Wooldridge ( retired )

Education Specialist, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( www.leap.cc )

Washington, DC



MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman

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