{"id":736,"date":"2012-09-22T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T07:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20018"},"modified":"2012-09-22T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T07:39:16","slug":"both-current-and-former-police-officers-urge-passage-of-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/both-current-and-former-police-officers-urge-passage-of-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Current and Former Police Officers Urge Passage of Marijuana Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/both-current-and-former-police-officers-urge-passage-of-marijuana-legalization\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"136\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/LEAP.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"LEAP\" title=\"LEAP\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20020\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/both-current-and-former-police-officers-urge-passage-of-marijuana-legalization\/attachment\/leap\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20020\" title=\"LEAP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/LEAP-136x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When talking about marijuana reform and the war on drugs it is often assumed that law enforcement officials support the status quo.\u00a0 That assessment may be insulting to many officers as the war on drugs has proven to be a failure.\u00a0 It has taken many unnecessary lives, incarcerated teens, put an a strain on the legal system, and still provides no system of regulation.\u00a0 Voters in Colorado may approve Amendment 64 which would regulate, tax, and legalize marijuana.\u00a0 It appears that many current and former police officers are also joining the cause.\u00a0 They are part of a activist group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leap.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Law Enforcement Against Prohibition&#8221; <\/a>(LEAP).\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Ryan now serves on the group&#8217;s board but was Denver police officer for 36 years.\u00a0 He recently said &#8220;I&#8217;d been thinking about this much of my career,<em> <\/em> I saw that marijuana wasn&#8217;t the cause of disturbances, crimes, or homicides\u2014something like alcohol was.&#8221;\u00a0 He also described how much time he noticed officers spent processing low level marijuana charges.\u00a0 He said it could an officer hours and &#8220;That perturbed me, It detracts from the police officer&#8217;s job in my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/09\/21\/current-former-cops-make-push-to-legalize-marijuana-ahead-of-election\" target=\"_blank\">For more on this click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"136\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/LEAP.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"LEAP\" title=\"LEAP\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20020\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/both-current-and-former-police-officers-urge-passage-of-marijuana-legalization\/attachment\/leap\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20020\" title=\"LEAP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/LEAP-136x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When talking about marijuana reform and the war on drugs it is often assumed that law enforcement officials support the status quo.\u00a0 That assessment may be insulting to many officers as the war on drugs has proven to be a failure.\u00a0 It has taken many unnecessary lives, incarcerated teens, put an a strain on the legal system, and still provides no system of regulation.\u00a0 Voters in Colorado may approve Amendment 64 which would regulate, tax, and legalize marijuana.\u00a0 It appears that many current and former police officers are also joining the cause.\u00a0 They are part of a activist group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leap.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Law Enforcement Against Prohibition&#8221; <\/a>(LEAP).\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Ryan now serves on the group&#8217;s board but was Denver police officer for 36 years.\u00a0 He recently said &#8220;I&#8217;d been thinking about this much of my career,<em> <\/em> I saw that marijuana wasn&#8217;t the cause of disturbances, crimes, or homicides\u2014something like alcohol was.&#8221;\u00a0 He also described how much time he noticed officers spent processing low level marijuana charges.\u00a0 He said it could an officer hours and &#8220;That perturbed me, It detracts from the police officer&#8217;s job in my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2012\/09\/21\/current-former-cops-make-push-to-legalize-marijuana-ahead-of-election\" target=\"_blank\">For more on this click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[334,52,166,376,562,56,9,51,563,70,1,3,564,61],"tags":[2912,2632,2744,2954,3135,2636,2631,3136,5,3137,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}