[UPDATE: October 30, the family of the young man entrapped by police in this case have filed a lawsuit. Read more here.]
In late 2012, a Riverside County, California police officer infiltrated a local high school, befriended a vulnerable, special needs student and then proceeded to send more than 60 text messages begging the student to buy him weed. The student, who had been diagnosed with autism as well as bipolar disorder, Tourettes, and several anxiety disorders (and noticeably handicapped) became overwhelmed by the pressure, and the desire to keep his only friend. He finally agreed to buy pot for “Dan” (the undercover cop). It took the teenager weeks to find anything, eventually buying half of a joint from from a homeless man downtown.
Then, as reported by Reason Magazine, “On December 11, 2012 armed police officers walked into [the student’s] classroom and arrested him in front of his peers. He was taken to the juvenile detention center, along with the 21 other arrestees, where he was kept for 48 hours. First hand reports claim that the juvenile center was caught off guard by the large number of arrests and that some youths had to sleep on the floor, using toilet paper as pillows.” The child was also expelled from school.
This story is a grotesque example of how our nation’s marijuana policies continue to encourage the use of barbaric and predatory tactics by law enforcement officials. They are financially incentivised to not only target otherwise law abiding citizens, but actively work to manipulate innocent children. Aside from the gross misappropriation of limited police resources, this incident clearly highlights many of the tragic implications marijuana prohibition continues to have on our nation’s youth. Further, zero tolerance policies in schools have proven to be ineffective in the very purpose for which they were originally designed. The practice of engaging in high school undercover drug stings has proven to do nothing to curb teen drug use. It does however, leave the student body traumatized and resentful of law enforcement, making them less likely to report legitimate crimes in the future. It is an egregiously unfair and punitive practice by educational institutions to expel students as punishment for any infraction of a rule, a significant portion of which are for non-violent low level drug violations. How does removing a minor from what is intended to be a stable, nurturing environment do anything to help prepare these individuals to lead responsible productive lives? They are now forced to sit at home with nothing to do but hang out with other expelled peers, or in a juvenile detention center.
One can argue that this all leads back to the financial incentives driving police officers to arrest as many individuals on drug charges as possible. Every year, law enforcement jurisdictions are given federal grants, swat gear, overtime pay and assets based solely on their number of drug arrests. Perhaps it is a result of former Governor Schwarzenegger’s passage of SB 1449 in 2010, which reduced the crime of possession of an ounce of pot from a misdemeanor to an infraction for adults 18 and over. Now, the only way to keep up their arrest rates is by targeting minors – whose charges remain misdemeanors. It is time to stop the madness and put an end to these insane zero-tolerance policies. Our children’s future depends on it.
**The family of the student framed by an undercover officer have set up a fundraiser to support their lawsuit against the school district. Click here for more information.
Your tax dollars at work, people.
We really should focus on getting these people out of politics and enforcement AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Protesting and whatnot are valuable tools, however, I believe nothing speaks louder than money and votes. Stop giving them your money and votes and give them to someone who deserves them.
This is really making me sick. Please NORML, organize a March to the White House! Please! When I was in high school early 80’s they did something similar to me at La Mirada High School in California. They busted me for seeds in the trunk of my car after illegal search (didnt know this then) and called my girlfriends parents on me. I am so sick of the U.S. Government lies I want to march to White House asap. I will walk from Colorado al the way to the White House with signs if you arrange it and get people to join me. My e-mail is jdbdroid1@gmail.com if you wish to contact me for a march.
ANGRY
This is sickening! Very angry.
I am so angry right now that, for the first time, I don’t have anything to say. Or is it that I have plenty to say but right now it would only come out as an incoherent mess of violence and hatred directed at our so-called heroes of law enforcement and the DEA? Either way, I could kick a puppy* right now, I’m that pissed.
The undesirables of society aren’t the ones in jail. They’re the ones in law enforcement. For some reason, that job seems to attract all the most sociopathic and psychotic narcissistic authoritarians.
*Don’t worry, I won’t, I would never, but I could.
In my opinion it’s because of the availability of “weed”..In some cases it’s easier to find and in MANY cases the police departments are lazy and don’t want to work to locate the DEADLY drugs nor put themselves in harms way because we know that these “weed” smokers are carrying tech9s or AK47s<–sarcasm..so therefore the Lazy police know if they go after the "weed" they don't have to deal with a dangerous situations at hand. I mean seriously it makes them look weak and scared..I'm more then positive I've had tougher steaks then some of these Lazy Police officers. As long as they get a Drug Bust on record it makes the people(tax payers) think their tax paying dollars are being put to good use when in all honesty there are kids out there Dying from DEADLY DRUGS that should be their(police) priority before they worry about trying to get rid of some plant that is a Medicine. No matter how much they spend or how many people they have nor how many hours they put in trying to dispose of Marijuana it will never happen. They are, they have been and always will be fighting a losing battle..
Alcohol and tobacco are also illegal drugs for teens. All drugs are bad, right? So why not entrap, arrest, and expel the entire student body, then close the school to save us all a bunch of the taxpayer’s money?
Straight up BS!
Are you kidding me?! Where does it end seriously?
WE MUST PREVAIL! KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!
What a waste of resources. Scum bag department. What the hell did they hope to accomplish??? They lost a lot of support i would hope. So many law suits against law enforcement for civil right violations and many more illegal and un CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. WHEN WILL OBSERD ACTIONS AGAINST DECENT CITIZENS STOP!!????!! WHAT A SHIT STORM OF SCHEMING POLICE BULLSHIT!!!
That is the most fucked up thing I’ve ever heard. Are you serious. Poor kid. Out of a whole high school of kids experimenting with all sorts of things and they choose to fuck with this poor young man. Unbelievable.
I have a mild form of autism (Aspergers). I was lucky. The officer that arrested me told me he could have arrested me in front of my peers and marched me out of my work place handcuffed. He waited until I came home instead. What really angers me is that the sativa varieties of our favorite weed seem to help me see the stuff I’m missing in my mind.
This is NORML at it’s best in giving you the news about prohibitionist crazed enforcement tactics to justify anti-cannabis police existence and their job security. It is news that will not be aired on major networks.
This is a “crime against humanity”.
What kind of judge would hear a case like this.
The police involved need to be in prison.
This country is being ran just like the nazis ran Germany. This article makes me sick. That undercover cop should be in general population with the people he has arrested.
This will blow your mind as well. It’s legal for a cop to impersonate you on your phone. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/01/police-imitate-drug-dealer-text/
The drug war was designed to take away our rights. Nixon had to get the hippies some how.
I have seen first hand how police treat the intellectually disabled. Their behavior is just disgusting. They actually get their rocks off praying on the weakest people in the community.They are despicable monsters and the most dangerous criminals in our community.
End the drug war and get the mafia out of our police force.
The war on drugs is a war on rights. Positive thoughts go out to everybody who has been wronged by these police who violate the law and get away with it. Our rights have been trashed.
ANGRY!
Surprised? No. Angry? Of course. This story is tragic and it’s supposed to be an example of how our government and law enforcement protect and serve the public. What makes me angry is the obvious fact that this endangers the public – this story and many others highlight the dangers.
Add to that NORML’s news that the US Supreme Court has declined to review the petition and a lower court’s decision upholding the DEA’s claim that marijuana “legitimately” belongs in a Schedule One classification.
President Obama promised laws and regulations based on science. The DEA consistently denies the science and it is a dept. that is routinely hands off to Congressional Oversight, although Congress isn’t much to respect when it comes to possessing sight.
If there’s a legitimate rogue agency in the federal gov’t it’s the DEA. Next to them is the ATF. They are nearly autonomous in the breathe of what they are permitted to do.
The result is a moral and very harmful effect on society. Stories like this one along with millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens who’s lives are ruined for marijuana and the fines and seizures of property have become a lucrative tax revenue for all of law enforcement and creates a vicious circle of harm and hate and escalation of focused activities towards marijuana and a lack of attention to genuine crimes.
Consider that possession of a pipe or a half a joint is equivalent to assaulting someone to a near point of death. With a federal government having a psychosis that promotes treating marijuana like a dangerous, violent attack on society, as a pariah, an everyday reality it is scary to wake up knowing that those who lead this country are as a majority quite ignorant and refuse to believe it.
I love America, but what’s happen(ed)ing to US?
The battle over pot legalization will have many twist and turns. I do not get how Americans tolerate this jerk water leadership from their government. We are phonies when we try to show other countries how they should live. FREEDOM IS DEAD HERE! SOME ONE SHOULD “JUST SAY NO” TO THIS KIND OF AMERICA AND IT’S PRISON COLONY MENTALITY. THESE COPS ARE NOT NYPD HEROS! THEY ARE JUST CREEPS TO SET UP AN AUTISTIC STUDENT. HOPE AT LEAST ONE OF THEM GETS A PROMOTION AND GETS TO GIVE ANTI BULLYING LECTURES AT GRADE SCHOOLS.
St. George utah and the whole state is super corrupt. They’ll follow out of state license plates and pull you over for BS infractions so they can search your vehicle without warrant and get away with it. Their state police are the criminals and they are sadistic as possible. Stay away from that evil unconstitutional place.
Having the narcs pressure an innocent person to buy MJ is not new. I saw a lot of them as a public defender. This is what fills our prisons at $125 a day.
If this aspect is accurate,
“…more than 60 text messages begging the student to buy him weed…”
What kind of a sadistic, pathetic, excuse for a person would even do that?
What a prime example of a failed system that this poor kid got setup like this. Is not ENTRAPMENT, (in automobile terms), when the police follow a driver for more than 3 miles?
Isn’t 60 texts actually HARASSMENT?!
What an absolute and astonishing miscarriage of justice.
The spirit of the law, and the letter of the law differ in a key principle –
and this bullshit isn’t in line with either one.
The spirit of the law is not supposed to be a predatory victimizer, that preys on the weak-
nor is the letter of the law a prowling hyena, laughing all the way to the bank.
The law is to PROTECT the people,
not lay in waiting in the brush to pounce on the less fortunate.
This is absurd bullshit, and I dare any politician to defend this atrocity.
We all know that Michele Leonhart would make a whole-heart(less)-ed attempt at it…
@Brian, et al: That is exactly right, that the Drug War is a war on our rights. It was from day one. People wonder, for example, why I’m so down on drug testing, and often are surprised to find that it’s ineffective, unreliable and actually increases the problem it purports to solve. But it is also a form of submissive urination–even if you are totally okay with it, it creates a master-slave mindset in the employee population and preps them to accept even worse crimes against their persons, property and privacy. I submit for your consideration the lawsuits involving employers requiring that, in addition to pissing in a cup, they now also want you to turn over the usernames and passwords of all your private emails and social networking accounts, or the case of Akron U requiring that all applicants (not even post-offer pre-employment hires, but all applicants!) have to submit samples of their DNA for the company to keep and use at its discretion. Both were, to the best of my knowledge, shot down…but so was drug testing for decades until Reagan.
The whole real reason for the Drug War was to acclimate us to the loss of our rights, by giving us a “higher purpose” to sacrifice them too–just like in 1984, where keeping the country perpetually at war gave the powers-that-be the ability to justify any atrocity or violation of the citizens with “we’re at war and you’re standing in the way of the war effort and siding with our enemies!”
@Playtoy: You’re right that many cops are freaking stupid putrid cowards who love to use marijuana and the cushy safety of busting marijuana users to pad their numbers and look like heroes without actually doing anything heroic. Marijuana is used to pad drug testing numbers too–98% of positives are for MJ, but when they show employers their numbers they emphasize the “horrible dangers” of the hard drugs, show them the straight numbers of how many users in general they’ve “caught” and protected employers from, and will simply omit the fact that only 2% of that number is made up of those hard drug users. Same principle is at play here: vast majority of users are marijuana, vast majority of busts are for marijuana, so they’ll show you how horrible and dangerous cocaine/heroine/hard drug dealers get and then show you their “drug bust” numbers that are padded out ad infinitum by simple MJ possession and leave out the fact that only a small fraction of those “busts” are for dealing or for hard drugs.
When marijuana is inevitably legalized across the board, a lot of scumbags in uniform (be it a law enforcement uniform or a drug testing company uniform) are going to have to find real jobs.
Personally, at this point, legalization isn’t enough. Eliminating the scheduling system isn’t enough. Reforming drug policy to reflect a public health rather than law enforcement approach is also not enough. I want to see every DEA agent, every single person who has ever profited from the Drug War or worked for a Drug War profiteer brought up on charges of crimes against humanity (since this failure of a Drug War has negatively affected more than just America). I want them in jail. I want them all to serve time for their crimes. I want them punished as their innocent victims were punished. I want them tormented as their innocent victims were tormented. I want them to be seen as–and treated as–the criminals they really are.
enddrugtesting.blogspot.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/professional-courtesy-and-negligent-homicide/
Their state troopers will violate you if you’re in a car with out of state plates. Searchnyour vehicle without warrant saying they can smell when they can’t. The troopers are the organized crime.
This kind of thing has troubled me for years.
Our local police have some the same thing.
If they know certain students are having problems shouldn’t they be in there helping them? And building them up! Instead of destroying their young lives. Is school not for preparing our children? For building them up and getting them into the best position possible for the start of their young lives.
Now they are outcasts with a criminal record.
I could go on and on. So sad! So sad!
Lord help these Morons. Open the eyes of their heart. Teach them to serve and protect, not ignore and destroy.
it seems that the majority of americans are finally supporting marijuana law reform but…
The policies for all illegal drugs in the US need reform. Maybe all drugs should not be fully legalized to the extent of marijuana, alcohol, tobacco but right now our “justice system” is causing far more damage to our citizens than drugs ever could. For example a lot of young people use mushrooms recreationally and live functional lives, however possession of mushrooms can be a man slaughter charge. Its hard for felons to get jobs, and its hard for people anyone who has a “criminal record” to get independent jobs after doing time. Getting caught with mushrooms can ruin a life far more than using mushrooms ever could. I wonder the what the stats are on over-doses vs people serving long term sentences for drug related charges vs annual murders in mexico and puerto rico. Meanwhile in many cases drug possession sentences are significantly longer than sentences for child molestation, and the vast majority young people addicted to ADDERALL, xanax, and oxycontin do not have LEGAL prescriptions. Some folks are hugely benefitting from our drug policy but if your reading this its probably not you.
–but you are funding it
What ever could this under cover officer have thought he would gain from all this wasted police time ? People spend decades in jail for cannabis ‘crimes’ – well this undercover officer should spend decades in jail as well for his crime (no qoutes needed !).
The childern the childern we have to protec our childern from the marijunan boggeman
Why dont we march on the school and make this a real big stink. Get it on 60 minutes
This is one of the more disgusting things that I am aware of regarding how law enforcement treats the citizens it is supposed to be protecting and serving. Further, this is exactly why I have lost ALL respect for law enforcement and those that make the laws.
I was ignorant in my youth and actually served 4 years in the USMC thinking that it was a good thing to serve our country (it is) and to serve our Government (it is not). As I approach age 60, I am more disgusted with our Government than I ever imagined possible.
I’m down with a march on Washington like so many others. Maybe, for once, NORML will organize a major event on April 20, 2014 and we can (hopefully) get the point across to the bastards serving in our Congress to pay attention and listen to reason.
On top of that, I wish that the legal minds associated with NORML would find a way to change the marijuana laws by force. I don’t pretend to know how, having no legal training, but there has to be a way for justice to prevail in America or it isn’t the America I would want to call my home.
Wow classic example of life as a 2nd class citizen under the BushObama Regime. This makes me laugh at those parents who are afraid of legalization and who use the excuse “I’m against it because if its legalized our kids will have easier access to it and think its safe to smoke marijuana.” Jeez wake up parents your kids smoking a joint is the least of your concerns. The Police putting your children in jail/juvee indiscriminately, whether they peacefully smoke cannabis with their friends or just are unable to tell when they are being setup by your tax-paid sociopaths/psychopaths, that is the real problem. You can keep your children safe but only if you take the responsibility of teaching them the difference between right (empathy/sympathy) and wrong(Fear mongering/Rights Plundering/The US Drug War).
I hope that bastard that manipulated a mentally challenged kid to advance himself has children or a wife with a mental disorder. Fuck him over good.
@MMJAdvocate – You’re so right about the parents who are against legalization for the safety of the children. Their children are in a great deal more danger from law enforcement than they are from consuming marijuana!
We don’t need a friggin’ nanny state protecting our kids (supposedly). We need for parents to take some responsibility in teaching and taking care of their own kids.
I used to feel bad about people calling the police pigs. Not anymore! “Pig” isn’t really bad enough to discribe this moral failure. This is an example of that “Nazis” bullshit that has been creeping into our government. How can any judge rule in favor of this officer after his illegal entrapment scheme has been layed bare for all to see?
…unbelieveable how much this sucks…this should be on the front page ,at the top!….this should be the straw that broke the camels back…WOW..those that do not understand need to see this…..
Appalling. I am mortified at the tactics used on a special needs student. Isn’t 60 text messages enticement? The police dept – particularly the undercover should be EMBARRASSED by this behavior. I hope the parents get big $$ from the lawsuit.
Been thinking about this a lot lately:I just don’t feel like insulting anyone today. Here I am up on the stage in front of thew whole nation.
How many of you saw America re-framed about the Montana Medical marijuana program? For Christs sake they wanted to give one of the growers 30 years In prison, however because of public out cry he only got 5 years in prison. Only 5 years?!!!
And they wonder why they’re despised by so many people. That cop has no integrity whatsoever. He molested that child and there’s no other way to put it.
This is so Sad, and Our Laws need to change.
this is a call out for OPERATION OVERGROW citizens since the government n scotus . continually deny the people . is time for a call out to all to plant seeds everywhere specially washington dc . spread sead in every public place from mall planters to scotus n potus front lawns .. if they wont change then we change the world by OVERGROWING THEM EVERYWHERE … SPREAD THE SEED N FORCE THEM TO CHANGE . TIME TO OVERGROW THEM INTO SUBMISSION !!!
My son has aspergers would sativa help him? This has gone on long enough it’s time to decriminalize pot and stop wrecking lives over a simple drug possession.
More wasted tax payers money on a setup…
3 year investigation with no suspects. Cause a fictitious problem to scare people and offer tyranny to fix it…
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2012/08/26/utah-media-goes-marijuana-grow-busting/
I love how the kid is wearing a SRH shirt in his school photo….come one, hes wearing a friggen Kottonmouth Kings T-shirt lol, what a dumb video
Entraping underage people should be illegal for civilians and police.
What a piece of shit cop and fuck that school for allowing thier student to be messed with like that. Fail
From an Article in the Idaho State Journal October 4th: Private prison company escapes Idaho following more then a decade marked by scandal, lawsuits. The decision came as Idaho State Police aided by a forensic auditing firm, is investigating allegations of contract fraud and falsified staffing reports. A federal judge also has held Corrections Corp. of America in contempt of court for failing to abide by the terms of a settlement agreement reached with inmates in a lawsuit claiming high rates of violence and chronic under-staffing at the prison.
Thanks to the Idaho ACLU. for the good work.
@parentofaspergers: It’s time to LEGALIZE marijauna. Decriminalization won’t help (as long as it’s still illegal, they will continue to “sting” people), and it especially won’t help in situations like this, as was detailed (they’re targeting underaged kids because it’s still a major crime for underaged kids while it’s not in decriminalized states–or in CA, where making it a simple infraction makes it less profitable for police to sting adults than to sting kids).
We need to legalize and then we need to end the Drug War all together, we need to eliminate monetary rewards for those who fight the Drug War that leads to this sort of atrocity, and then we need to eradicate every industry that has profiteered off of the Drug War and enact major regulations and oversight on those organizations we can’t eradicate (like the police).
enddrugtesting.blogspot.com
BTW, why hasn’t NORML covered the mayor of Denver trying to forcibly re-criminalize marijuana in direct defiance of the will of the people?
[Paul Armentano responds: We have highlighted this issue, including the change.org petition <http://www.change.org/petitions/respect-denver-voters-do-not-criminalize-adults-for-using-marijuana-on-private-property?share_id=tOxMMcWmCM&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition> on our Facebook page.]
that’s fucked up and very very dumb
Entrapment anyone? I’d say the parents should civilly sue the cop, laws aside. Regardless of what he was buying, this ‘cop’ took advantage, and from the sounds of it, harassed, a young, mentally-unstable CHILD into buying him weed. He asked the child to commit an illegal act on behalf of HIM. If i order a hit on someone, it’s me who gets in trouble. If the DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS opens a website where other people sell drugs, he gets fucked, so all I’m asking for is a bit of continuity. Hell, if i ask my friend to buy me weed, its ME that gets in trouble. I dont get how this cop gets immunity from his explicit conspiracy to buy a controlled substance violation. If they ask you to buy some, and you’re dumb enough to, that’s one thing; the weed was bought without knowing someone else would be buying some. However, in this case, the sole-purpose for the kid possessing it is the cop. It wouldn’t have been in his possession without the cop’s intervention, therefore, its a manipulated, false scenario. #Entrapment
Looks like it’s not the weed we should be worrying about protecting our kids from…
That’s absolutely disgusting. Harassing a poor kid to buy pot, only to then arrest him for buying pot? That’s nothing but a sadistic officer wasting tax dollars for some sort of sick game he deems entertaining, but in actuality is outright abusive and so morally wrong. My heart goes out to that poor, poor teenager. I hope the family sues the asshole for endangering their child.
This is absolutely sickening. This is the babylon system at its finest. Make the youths sell pot and arrest them. Not only the only youth but mentally handicapped youth. Fuck the system!
I Agree!!!
this is how law enforcement is protecting our children from a culture of ignorance. We are responsible for protecting ourselves from law enforcement.
How much was the officers’ bonus predicated on this entrapement method’s success.
Hmmm. Aside from the moral quandary of this situation, how can this be justified in efficiency and financial terms? Something is being left out of this story because there is no funding for much more substantial operations let alone this piss ant entrapment BS!
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Lame ass Cops
@Demon hype- I didn’t realize what the slime ball was pulling in Denver.. Here in Ohio we signed petitions for medical 2 turn around and have the District attorney or attorney general well regardless the asshole stopped us from going further and putting it on the ballot for voters to choose.. Nope the cocky pricks say that they are “elected officials and they’ll do what seems fit..” Tired of it!! Everyone is getting greased pockets and its screwing America..
Is someone going to arrest that slimebag narco “police officer” (that is a joke) for the crime of “Contributing to the delinquency of a child”? This isn’t legal, and someone needs to be held accountable.
I would have thought this might happen down south, not in Cali… But it also sounds like something is rotten in and around Riverside County. The fact this has been going on for years, well all of those cases need to be reviewed. Straight up abuse like this cannot be allowed. Targetting mentally handicapped and slow learning students in this way really is nothing more than the abuse of those students. They have no value other than be a target for hate; and this is officially sanctioned? Is this a fucking joke???
Wow thats so ugly
How low is it that a defenseless, innocent kid had been tricked by, well, to put it bluntly in my own opinion, what a grotesque pig of a cop. How did he sleep at night knowing that could have been kid that was tricked. In all respects to the parents of this young kid being tricked and to his friends, we have to stand up and change this from happening again because we as true-blood Americans that were raised from the soil we walk across might not be so forgiving to Authority next time. What does that word mean to you all? To protect and serve huh….I pity the sad, sadistic cop and the station he works at, fakers.
How sad is this? How about really protecting and serving by finding the real criminals and stop picking on the innocent children? He thinks he’s somebody, he’s just a bully with a badge.
wish to this cop to die suffering and his family to suffer
Yes, this is our tax dollars at its finest. teaching and encouraging kids to go out and buy drugs. Not only is this whole thing stupid, but that cop essentially put that kid in danger going out to buy the drugs. Just to make an unjustified arrest and make this kid expelled from school. Oh yeah and he was mentally challenged at that. This sickens me so much. I wish we would relieve prohibition and this war on drugs so we don’t have to resort down to something as low as this. That kid and his family must of been very embarrassed. My support goes out to them.
Stuff like this makes regular people like me HATE THE POLICE. In fact since I’ve been a teenager, and for the 20yrs since, the prohibition powered war on drugs has positioned me as completely anti cop. I smoke pot. I don’t take drugs. The fact they would prey on a child who is troubled, makes me want to puke. In the cops face. then punch it. The officer, his superiors and anyone who allows this is a vile excuse for humans. I raise all three of my kids that police are the enemy and will only have contact with you to harm you. Never to speak to them, never go near them. Do not help them…. Again I have no criminal record what so ever. But I smoke pot. And own a business and pay taxes and I’m a dad. The war on drugs is a joke! Anyone who believes this bullshit about arresting people for weed is either profiting from its illegality, or old enough to still be controlled by religion and or govt. In the words of NWA, Fuck the police!
This is completely unacceptable and cannot go unpunished. These thugs who prey on handicapped kids should be dealt with in the most severe way. It’s up to the people.