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By TONY WALL - Sunday Star Times Last updated 05:00 15/08/2010 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4025675/Ca...-former-top-cop © 2010 Fairfax New Zealand Limited A recently retired senior police officer who once headed the National Drug Intelligence Bureau says police have made a "tactical mistake" in the way they deal with cannabis offences. Detective Inspector Harry Quinn, who retired in 2008 after 37 years in the police, is calling on senior police to lead a debate on the cannabis issue, saying he is "disappointed" that no one in the organisation is prepared to speak out. He says this is because police see cannabis as a "political time bomb". Quinn, who al…

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Another top expert in the UK has called for drugs to be decriminalised, arguing current tactics have not worked. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/D...alisation_In_UK The thing that gets me is, what's different here? Once again you have someone who's an expert in a field making a strong, rational argument, followed by the same tired old lines from the police and government opposing that view. But you're not reducing drug use!!! The figures show more cannabis is being grown than ever before, meaning demand is higher than ever. You've had decades of a current drug policy to work out how to reduce demand, and all it's done has gone up! Prohibition will nev…

Oh boy, I can feel a rant coming on. http://caivn.org/article/2010/08/10/opposi...abis-act-mounts I just gotta break this down. Starting with the Democrats who oppose the bill. Firstly, Feinstein, who I'm pretty sure has already had many of her remarks debunked, opposed it in part because: "Proposition 19 is simply a jumbled legal nightmare that will make our highways, our workplaces and our communities less safe." See what I mean? But she goes on: " ... the only thing that would be certain is drug use would go up and the state of California would run afoul of federal law and risk losing federal funding." Ahh, so we're starting to get to the real crux of her argume…