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Cut Your Grass
by Lee

It’s nice, once in a while, to see democracy actually work.

A Santa Barbara judge has upheld a city ordinance requiring police to make enforcement of marijuana laws their lowest crime-fighting priority.

Although Measure P, which was approved by 65% of the city’s voters last November, does not decriminalize marijuana, it will further reduce the already infrequent arrests of adults possessing small amounts of marijuana.

Santa Monica, my part of Los Angeles, also passed a similar measure last election cycle.

The judge rejected the city’s claim that state and federal drug laws made the local measure invalid. “Police officers can still arrest those who violate drug possession laws in their presence,” Anderle wrote in his ruling. “The voters have simply instructed them that they have higher priority work to do.”

And they do.  There’s bums and gangs and hippies who need badly their heads beaten in, and if the police are busting some guy for smoking a doobie and watching South Park they’re not going to be able to swing those nightsticks.

Posted by Lee on 07/11/07 at 08:45 PM (Discuss this in the forums)

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Posted by on 07/11/07 at 10:57 PM from United States

I’m not exactly sure how this is going to free up police resources, since now the cops will have to be even more on the lookout for darkies trying to seduce innocent white girls by intoxicating them with reefer madness.

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