MORE OPINIONS ON POT FROM NEAR AND FAR (5 OF 6)

With only weeks to go, the Nevada ballot initiative to legalize marijuana
is in a dead heat. Are some police officers breaking the law in their
desperate scramble to try to defeat it? A few hostile police in Las Vegas
may have.

A few days ago, they removed three ounces of marijuana from an evidence
locker and waved it around on national TV in an attempt to show that three
ounces is too much for personal use.

By doing this, the police may have broken the law, which states that they
can only possess drugs in the context of performing official duties-not to
use them in a political campaign.

And they may have broken the law a second time by campaigning against the
initiative while on the clock; taxpayer money cannot be used to pay their
salaries while they are campaigning against the initiative. The MPP
campaign must be fed up with cops who think they are above the law, and
these rouge cops should be prosecuted.

Michael Lind

Ojai, Calif.