PRISONS FULL OF THE WRONG PEOPLE

American needs to end pot prohibition. Roughly, smoking marijuana is
the combination of drinking a beer and smoking tobacco, both legal for
adults. Every hour our profession spends chasing the suppliers of pot
means we miss DUIs, rapists and other public safety threats.

Even a high-ranking official of MADD I spoke to agrees that police
time could be better spent.

We have been at this pot war for 35 years and have nothing to show for
it, except prisons full of the wrong people.

Officer Howard J. Wooldridge, retired

Member, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Washington, D.C.