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I completely understand why people think this is satire but I am 100% serious.
I own plenty of guns and have trained dogs [I grew up in the 3rd world on a farm]
I do fear estate crime when I leave the ranch because I am the only house way out near the woods. Lots of rural homes in the area have been burglarized, I moved here for a scam job offer and was making great money but now scrape by on less than 15k a year, my family literately survive on donations of post date food so building a good fence and security systems are out of the question.
I understand the lack of respect for police but they are good people doing a job, if drugs were not a crime then people would probably feel differently about them.
I bet police would support ending the drug war if they weren't so worried about their jobs, they know its a scam.
Education and law enforcement has been VERY successful reducing nicotine use especially with the youth.
With an increased police presence less people would smoke in public and dare offer drugs to kids. I hate to see people smoking in front of the local store when school lets out, the kids have to look at that as they walk in to buy their candy. If someone throws a lit cigarette out of their car window we could bust their rear for public endangerment! Sick of seeing bums sift through public ash trays for butts!
Nicotine is an illegal substance?
Someone's mixing apples and oranges ... or cigarettes and joints ...
If we had police that kept people from smoking in public then less kids would or could do it however I would NEVER make it illegal or fire someone for it.
Apparently not enough to know that nicotine is legal, and that increased police presence would not matter one bit.
increased funding for the police would help them enforce good laws like smoking where it is prohibited.
I would prefer that people did not smoke in places were children were present but I would NEVER want it to be illegal.
re-read the post slowly, I never said anything about nicotine being illegal.
the whole point of the thread was that increased police funding thanks to recreational marijuana would be a great thing since the police would no longer be anal probing people looking for pot and could focus on real crime like rape, robbery and domestic violence.
Thats the point, dont hate police, hate the drug war.
One major point that no one has hit on [somehow] is that one of the most powerful drug war internists is the massive amounts of spending and allocations along with property seizures the directly benefit law enforcement. Its my firm opinion that if the men and women of law enforcement did not have to worry about losing their jobs they would be much more likely to help us end this costly, ineffective and destructive policy. By allocating funding that would if fact increase the police jobs and equipment they use to combat real crime we could win them over to our side. Its not the police that are the problem, its the corrupt politicians who bend over for special interest groups like the pharmaceutical company's and private prisons that need to be "defunded" not the men and women working to keep america safe from true criminals.
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