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5 Reasons Cops Want to Legalize Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 06/30/2015 - 08:45

The job of law enforcement has always been to protect communities, but marijuana prohibition has created a distraction to effectively maintaining public safety. Marijuana prohibition and the drug war as a whole have contributed to an overall decrease in public safety and misdirection of valuable resources. Here’s why law enforcement across the country and around the world are pushing for marijuana legalization:

  1. Marijuana prohibition overburdens the legal system. Each marijuana arrest wastes time and resources at every step of the legal process. The arresting officer must file paperwork and possibly make a court appearance, which account for time and money that could be spent going after people who are actually posing a danger to others. Lawyers, often public defenders, take on numerous drug cases at once, and a presiding judge must waste his or her time hearing those cases. In 2013, 82 percent of all drug arrests were for possession of a
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