The police shouldn't be enforcing drug laws.
They should be advocating for legalisation and regulation.
Massive waste of life, time, and money.
They should be advocating for legalisation and regulation.
Massive waste of life, time, and money.
I understand where you're coming from, but a society where the police have total control over who is arrested and who goes free — who the laws apply to — is a much darker world that I don't want a part of.
(And let me head you off — no, it's not the one we live in right now. You don't actually know what it's like to live in a society without civilian control of the police.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
The police have almost-absolute discretion.
(I am aware of the lobbying of police unions, and I don't like it. Police unions are actually a great example of why you shouldn't want cops to be lobbyists, because the shit they inevitably lobby for is in their interests, not the interest of the general public.)