Hey, all of you FReepers who think you have the right to control people: Do you want to stop sh** like this? Then legalize MJ and leave the fickin' pot heads alone. They hurt no one, not their kids or anyone else. No worse than alcohol and it might even be less damaging then booze. BTW, before some dumb f*** pipes up, no I don't smoke MJ or tobacco either.
The Gestapo have to justify the Millions spent on Swat teams and their equipment so they stage these phony frickin' raids putting many people's lives in danger and many times raiding the wrong house and killing innocent people. War on drugs my a**, more like war on the American public.
Watching the video of this raid, with LEOs shooting multiple rounds off in the home with little kids present, you'd think this guy had planted car bombs in Time Square....
Legalize or decriminalize? While I abhor the actions the police took in this instance, this guy's neighbors have a right to NOT have a drug dealer who's dealing drugs from his home, living next to them. I would suspect that even after either legalization or decriminalization, selling drugs out of your home, will still not be allowable, nor should it be.
I think a model that is similar to what many states had post-prohibition, would probably work best. State stores selling marijuana collecting the appropriate taxes. And, I would be ALL FOR substantive taxes because there is an undeniable social cost for marijuana. If you want to grow your own, fine. But only enough for your personal consumption, and not to be resold.
The police will always have a duty to protect the community from drug dens. They just need to get a a whole lot smarter with respect to how they enforce those prohibitions. Busting down the door and shooting the family dogs, is not the smart way to go about it.