Posted on 12/10/2015 10:17:56 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
NAPLES, FL - They're normally the guys locking people up for marijuana possession, but a group of current and former law enforcement officers will meet in Naples to push for people's right to get high.
Not all law enforcement officers are on board, however. Legalizing marijuana, it's a hot-button issue in Florida.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is pushing for the change to save taxpayer dollars and valuable resources.
"Sixty-thousand people get arrested every year for marijuana possession. That's a waste of law-enforcement resources," said Ray Strack of LEAP.
The group meets Thursday in Naples. The Florida Sheriff's Association is not on board with the plan or Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummel.
"No, I don't want to see that in Florida. We want to be known for our sunshine, our beaches, and Mickey Mouse. We don't want to be known for marijuana," said Sheriff Bill Prummell. "I'm just kind of surprised that fellow law enforcement are 'pro' this."
At the top of Thursday's agenda? Promoting initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana.
"We believe strongly in a regulated market. That's what we have [with] alcohol and tobacco," said Strack.
We found people Wednesday who said the current pot penalties are a waste of time.
"I think people would be surprised there's a lot of up-standing people that do it; they just haven't gotten caught," said Punta Gorda resident David Choken.
But Sheriff Prummel said catching pot smokers usually leads to other crimes.
"I don't see it as a waste of time because, like I stated before, they're likely involved in something else, or they're going to expand into something."
The meeting is free and open to the public Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Collier County Library Headquarters in Naples. If you plan on going, you can expect to learn about three amendments focused on the decriminalization of marijuana.
“fails to achieve its ends when overused as in capitalizing 60 consecutive words.”
YYour opinion may be valid.. but nothing else has helped you follow the logic!
Simply: decriminalization merely legalizes crime.
Criminal attorneys push to profit from changing law to make illegal legal.
You're suggesting that criminal attorneys will profit from defending people of being charged with doing something LEGAL?
Which is a good thing when a law, like the law banning pot, causes more harm than it prevents.
No..
I believe any attorney is a criminal “pushes to profit” from changing law to make ILLEGAL actions LEGAL i.e. pot, prostitution, heroin, opium.
But ironically, the more decriminalization of penal law that determines what is threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people the greater reduction of their own scope to practice law! LOL
But, easier money is made by just CHANGING the law that protected the public from practices that endangered society.
BTW now you understand why I tried capitalization to catch attention for understanding.
If someone during Prohibition pushed for its end while maneuvering to profit from that end, would that have been "criminal"?
I have no idea what this means.
BTW now you understand why I tried capitalization to catch attention for understanding.
I do?
Actually, just like ConservingFreedom, it just looked like a lot of shouting to me. I won't speak for him, but for me, I just took it that your capitalizing every word was a matter of you getting shrill because your arguments weren't going well. I'll use capitalization to emphasize a word or two, just like you did appropriately in this most recent post. Emphasizing my every word would be shouting, whether it would be in print or out loud.
You misunderstood. I explained. Take it however pleases you.
Capitalize at will :D
I have no idea what this means. Sorry. I simplified enough. Maybe, stay away from pot!
I think it's an ungrammatical rephrasing of the claim in post #51 ... a claim that merits a hearty, "So what?"
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