>>>California first - Rode Island & Nevada next....
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>>>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/25/calif-pot-vote-isnt-just-hippies-versus-cops/
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>>>It will be interesting when it passes to see if federal authorities sue to keep the measure from becoming law.
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>>I think the biggest opponents of legalizing it are not cops but drug dealers. They have more to lose then anybody else.
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>Well - you might have a point there...however I suspect that there will be more cops voting that drug dealers.
>Anyway it will be interesting to see how the vote goes. I'd really like to see it pass - and based on all the polls I'd seen the people of California seem to be for it. Once they police organizations, bible-tumpers, and pharmaceutical companies start hiring lobbyists and blow a few zillion dollars on a scare-campaign hopefully it will still pass.

I think a lot of cops are indifferent to or opposed to marijuana laws on the grounds that it just interferes with and drains time and resources from real police work. I certainly knew a lot of DEA guys who felt that way ( though of course there are always careerists, power freaks and idiots who just like badges and guns so they can tell other people what to do ) Cops come in all varieties. I don't think as a voting block they will be more than a wash .

Legal medical marijuana seems like a no-brainer and a nice transition to figuring out how to integrate it into mainstream society with the least consequences. I don't hear of it causing a lot of problems where it has been implemented. Obama's justice department is strangely reluctant to ease up on federal interference in state policy, though.