Posts Tagged law enforcement officers

Frank-Paul Marijuana Bill Seen as Unlikely to Boost Jobs

Posted by admin in Business on June 26, 2011

What isn’t clear is what federal decriminalization of marijuana might mean for jobs. For example, law-enforcement officers now tasked with targeting and arresting those who grow and use marijuana would instead be allocated to some other police function…

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California: Police Group Backs Marijuana Measure.

Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 25, 2010

A national group of African-American law enforcement officers has endorsed Proposition 19, a ballot measure that would tax and regulate marijuana in California.www.nytimes.com

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California Cops To Waste More Money ‘Eradicating’ Pot

Posted by admin in World News on May 8, 2010

Local, state and federal law enforcement officers will gather May 10-13 in San Diego to begin “organizing” this year’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), which has failed annually since 1983 to achieve its stated goal: reducing cannabis use and availability in California by “eradicating” illegal grow sites.

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Oklahoma: Medical Marijuana in OK | Hemp News

Posted by admin in Political News on March 6, 2010

There’s a move underway to legalize the use of medical marijuana in our state. Fourteen states have already done it. One Oklahoma woman tells us, when she tried to talk about the issue with her state senator, she ended up face-to-face with a number of law enforcement officers.

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Is war on drugs worth it? Maybe not, new FBI data suggest. |

Posted by admin in Political News on September 15, 2009

Many law enforcement officers now say the drug interdiction effort is costly and unsuccessful. Someone is arrested on a drug charge every 18 seconds in the U.S., and the bulk of drug arrests in 2008 were for simple possession, almost half for marijuana.

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