That would also help though a lot of bull really believe what they're doing is the 'best' thing or just that the law is the best thing in the world. I have come across some decent ones (who probably get as fucked as the people they arrest) but some (a lot when you put it in perspective) are really devious pricks who will break plenty of rules just to screw someone.Synyster_Step wrote:I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not in a police fan club, but I don't hate them. Sure, they can be real assholes a lot of the time, but they are just men and women trying to make a living just like me. It's not their rules that they enforce, but they have to for their job. I think that instead of attacking (verbally) police all of the time, we should be attacking the officials that we continue to elect into office that have raised large amounts of opposition to marijuana legalization. I think it's just as much bullshit as a lot of other people that it's still illegal, seeing that alcohol, with ~70,000 deaths/year and tobacco products, with ~400,000 deaths/year are legal. Just my .02
Changing drug laws would be the best help though: in the year 2000 the Police Commission did release a report saying that cannabis is the most minor problem that they have to deal with and that the legal implications for users should be reviewed for downgrading (decriminilisation looked possible), even the Daily Mail and some other wanky tabloid that likes to fire up hoity-toity idiots backed this, but then the whole thing turned back to the status quo in 'the war on drugs'. The fact that decriminilisation in Portugal is lowering the negative effects of drugs and less people are using them is never mentioned in mainstream media as well as the fact that cannabis use decreased when it was made class C in the UK. It also has not helped in the slightest that scientists, policy makers and any researcher in general gets hounded when they tell the truth and it isn't what people want to hear (David Nutt is a case in point). The current government has also dropped its evidence-based approach to drugs policy recently in favour of Tory ideology which is 'drugs are bad, the people that use are bad and everyone involved should be put in jail as long as we can hold them there for'.
What would be the best course of action is to use the wide range of evidence available to enact sensible policies that don't incriminate people unnecessarily and deal with the problems in a logical rather than an ideological/self-opinionated way...
