2y ago

Ohio Fraternal Order of Police hoping for a 'no' on marijuana initiative: 'Drug use and crime will go up!'

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Ohio Fraternal Order of Police hoping for a ‘no’ on marijuana in Ohio

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2y ago

Ohio Fraternal Order of Police hoping for a ‘no’ on marijuana in Ohio

www.cleveland19.com /2023/09/07/ohio-fraternal-order-police-hoping-no-marijuana-ohio/

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FOP is against it? Sounds like a great reason to vote FOR it.
- I don't want FOP goddammit I'm a Dapper Dan man!
  
  "Watch your language young fella, its a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan I can order it for you.. have it in a couple of weeks"
Can't wait for the day when smelling MJ isn't probable cause to ruin your car.
- isn’t probable cause ruin your ~~car~~ life.
Won't crime go down if it's legal?
- pretty sure that's the case in the places where it has already been decriminalized or legalized outright; plus, it frees the resources and manpower that departments and agencies devote to the heinous crimes of weed possession and use.
  the police, on the other hand, would lose easy targets to detain, abuse, harass, beat up, or shoot, all while hiding behind the flimsiest excuse and the easiest lie of 'i smelled weed', and enjoying the benefits of qualified immunity that comes from such claims.
  
  Yup, just about the easiest targets of all. Your average cop would much, much rather arrest a stoner in dreadlocks than bother with genuine bad guys.
- They won't be able to pull over random black people because 'they smelled marijuana', and obviously every one of those was on their way to commit a crime.
  
  Guess they'll have to smell fentanyl, which has no odor.
- I never really heard of police/crime incidents in my hometown involving weed before or after weed became legal in Washington. So I'd assume there really hasn't been a noticable change, which is still better than the fear mongering that crime will increase upon legalizing weed.
  
  In illegal times and places, getting busted for weed is/was so common it only made the news when celebrities are/were caught. Can't much speak to the here and now, but I grew up in (suffice to say) an earlier decade of the illegal era, and dope busts were incredibly common.
- Yes and so will personal property confiscations (cash, vehicles, etc) I.e. police budget bonuses
can we be real?
Police training is basically a diploma mill. It's a joke in most places. You've got people that barely passed high school in some cases, going to a community college with next to zero entry standards, doing this training that often contains no real legal courses.
They don't know shit about the subject matter.
“But then we won’t have easy justification to go off the rails!”
If you consider marijuana a drug, then yeah, drug use will go up, dumbasses, that's the point.
If you consider marijuana use criminal, then yeah criminal activity will increase, dumbasses, that's the point.
- Granddad — is that you?
Follow the money
Maybe theft of potato chips.
- Aggravated assault on ice cream.
  
  War crimes of pizza.
Yeah I'll let y'all know the next time the FOP manages to influence my opinions on basically anything. Oh they said it's bad? Then it's most likely fine and they've got ulterior motives.
All im hearing is police are pro-crime
- well, they do have a vested interest on keeping at least the perceived crime rate high. otherwise they lose their budgets for cosplaying special forces, or even their jobs and the 'privileges' that go along with them.
They are more concerned that easy drug busts and overtime will go down.
- Seems like a great reason to vote yes!
a very compelling reason to vote to legalize cannabis
Who's with stupid?

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