Cop Asks Obama to Consider Legalizing Drugs

Retired deputy sheriff MacKenzie Allen asks President Obama to consider at least a discussion on legalizing drugs to stop the violence inherent in the criminal market created by prohibition. This video was recorded for YouTube's "Your Interview with the President" contest. Go to http://www.youtube.com/askobama and vote it up!

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[jray707]

THE PEOPLE IN OFFICE ARE OUR EMPLOYEES, WE SHOULD HAVE TO VOTE IF THEY GET PAY RAISES NOT THEMSELVES. OUR GOVERNENT CONTINUES TO FAIL TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT. THEY CONTINUE TO MAKE MORE WHILE WE SUFFER MORE. STOP THE SPENDING ON THE DRUG WAR FOR YOUR OWN PERSONNEL GAIN!!!!!! IF YOU CANT GIVE US WHAT WE WANT GET THE HELL OUT SO WE CAN PUT SOMEBODY IN WHO WILL!!!! SHAME ON YOU OBAMA YOU HAVE FAILED US. DO WHATS RIGHT OR THE OUT, I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR YOUR RE ELECTION. TIME FOR REAL CHANGE NOW!!

[smittygreensmile]

Mr. Allen,

The leader of our country demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge and concern not only about addiction and treatment, but about the relationship between black market money and violence.

As a paying contributor to LEAP, I now have a question for you Mr. Allen.

Knowing that the government is not listening, where do we go from here?

Will LEAP finally begin to organize protests and boycotts where police officers and citizens march side by side?

What do we do now?

What comes next?

[iplz]

RON PAUL !

[sdkee]

@djkly1

Cocaine, amphetamines, and alcohol were all legal before the government discovered a fetish for controlling alcohol. Please give contemporary examples of "people committing crimes" back when these were all unregulated by the government.

My point is that you can't. You would be hard pressed to find an obvious *addict* to, for instance, cocaine, while it was legal over the counter.

Now that the government has gotten involved, you can easily find dead bodies and lost liberties.

[djkly1]

@demfings ..government. I am simply saying that, ALL drugs should not be legalized, but marijuana should be because they are spending wayy too much dollars on its eradication, and its not going anywhere. Eradicators have admitted that they are losing the war on cannabis, and its prohibition is causing the upheaval of drug wars and thousands or more ppl filling up the jails etc. Cocaine, meth, alcohol etc is usually the backbone for most of the people comitting crimes, thats why they're a danger.

[djkly1]

@demfings Cocaine, Heroin & amphetamines are either pure or enhanced forms of medication used in the medical field for pain relief etc. and must be used in the proper way by licensed or trained persons. People therefore found ways to manipulate and abuse these drugs and thats what made them dangerous/illegal. I know about the 1960's anti-government tendency and that was mainly focused on marijuana & LSD hence the hippie era, nothing dangerous was involved with marijuana alone only to the....

[demfings]

@djkly1 You also must be missing the fact that all drugs have been legalized in some places and it has made them, and less people use them because the forbidden fruit aspect is gone and there were no major issues from them. But why does the government have the right to tell you what you can and cannot put in your body anyway, why not tell you that you can't eat Mcdonalds? Obesity is a much larger problem than drug abuse in this country. You should be allowed to decide for yourself to use or not.

[demfings]

@djkly1 They aren't illegal because they're dangerous, they're made illegal because the people who use the drugs oppose th govt and cause a lot of problems for them, or at least they did in the 1960's. Studies have shown that there is little difference in how dangerous crack, heroin, meth and alcohol are. 95% of users of all of these drugs don't become addicted or have any problem with them ever, you're just brainwashed by above the influence adds to think they're worse.

[djkly1]

@demfings ...It is the issue if the drugs are dangerous or not, hence the reason why they are illegal. But you have alcohol, a drug, on the other hand available to the public. The govt had already made tax stickers etc for taxing marijuana, but not one of them were ever circulated. So they had the method to try taxing, and never tried it, so they would not know what will happen, thats why it stayed illegal up to this day, the law is outdated and needs to be revisited b4 the DEA can get a hold.