Party tonight in Weymouth to celebrate and politic, gather our people for the upcoming local battles. I look forward to the first city that decides to repeal or amend this. 10,000 stoners on city hall!

No surprise that the ONLY people against this are police… smell something fishy?

Drug testing in jeopardy? My god we test peoploe who stack meaningless movies on shelves.. yet the most powerful positions, hell ALL of them… are exempt from testing?!?!?!?!

Our last 3, count them 3 Presidetns have smoked marijuana and yet they sit in the White House while thousands of decent tax paying Americans are sitting in the big house…. How can this be allowed to continue?

Welcome to the hypocritical States of America

Anyway congrats to you guys in Mass for passing the vote… hopefully, one day, we here in Florida will have a similar action in the future.

Consider the fact that most judicial systems also sell their revenue streams (fines/court costs/tickets) on the International Markets. If your in the know, and know how to use dun & bradstreet you can find out for yourself.

Now you take all that and realize that they have now lost a revenue stream. Some banker or broker somewhere isn’t going to get his new BMW as soon as he wants this year.

Now add the pressure that will be applied from above to lower management. THey will begin to make up any number of stupid ideas and some will be so devious you will not believe that people can be that way.

Start waking up to how deep drugs have gotten into banking in this country.

You keep trying to fight a system that you believe is just religiously motivated.

No, your not getting it. It is people who are financially motivated and using religion as a cover.

…Wake up, follow the money

It is Massachusetts. But Dennis, if you point to one party or the other as being more responsible for the war on marijuana, you have fallen into the trap that politicians of both parties have set for you. They want to keep us busy pointing fingers at each other instead of holding congressional and state politicians’ feet to the fire on this subject.

Take note…the same number of people were arrested for simple marijuana possession during Clinton as during Bush, about 5 million each.

How do you explain this?

Further, in every period of drug war ramp up, the Democrats controlled Congress by a wide margin. They are the people and that is the body that make laws. The Republican Congress between 1994 and 2002 did not appreciably change drug laws.

Some of the most virulent prohibitionists are Democrats, such as California’s Dianne Feinstein and Harry Reid, who promised me on a radio talk show call in 2000 (KKOH Reno) that, due to a conversation with a handicapped person he knew to be of good character, the congress, “should look at that,” meaning the medical marijuana question.

Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, where the modern medical marijuana movement began, has not been interested in the subject since becoming speaker.

Where is your criticism, Dennis, or even your acknowledgment of this betrayal by so many Democrats for so long?

See how they have got you in their trap?

Prohibition of marijuana and other drugs and its drug war implementation are the most bi-partisan policies of all. Both parties love, cherish and protect it equally, mostly because so many state and congressional members and leaders come out of Law Enforcement.

And this is a jobs issue for law enforcement, for if 770,000 people a year were not arrested and adjudicated for simple marijuana possession, far fewer cops and judicial personnel would be necessary.

Or those that exist would have to start fighting real crime, like murder, rape, and child molestation, which is far more dangerous and far less fun than harassing pot smokers.

If you insist on blaming one side or the other, people like say me, a Republican who has been in the anti-prohibition trenches since my first trip to Amsterdam in 1986, you will never be able to bring a plurality or a majority of people behind us and into the movement to end these counterproductive laws.

It is up to you, and others like you, to lay down your differences with “Republicans,” and set your sites on those who support and defend marijuana prohibition, whatever their party or whatever their opinion on other issues.

Your choice,

Eric Johnson

The take home message is follow the dictates of your employer or find a new job.

This site about made me cry, it is soooooo sad that this is the culture of the people “protecting” us. It is sad that the job of Police Officer attracts mainly total scumbags.