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05-12-2014, 03:33 PM
Nebraska cops continue to complain about Colorado marijuana laws
By William Breathes in Legalize It, News
Friday, May 9, 2014 at 9:20 am
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2014/05/nebraska_cops_continue_to_complain_about_colorado. php
The police and statists in NE are using CO's new marijuana law as an excuse to grow arrest people and grow the size of the governments located in NE. Oh, and they get paid to complain about it. Some people just cannot seem to keep in classy :(
http://cdn1.image.bored.com/user/21018/media/54ae3b0069Whine_jpg.jpeg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/nebraska.highway.check.jpg
Here is a NE highway check point. Is it set-up to stop cars with CO plates?
If you listened to the law enforcement in Nebraska, you'd think that the world is coming to an end and it's staring just west in Colorado. They've been doing it for months now.
In their latest installment of public whining, cops say that they find pot in one out of every five cars they search coming from Colorado now - all but admitting that all they do these days is profile cars from Colorado specifically to write tickets and make arrests for even the tiniest amount of cannabis they can find.
According to KETV in Nebraska, lawmakers in that state aren't doing anything about it. Probably because they really can't, aside from asking the feds to sue Colorado to stop the laws. But really, they lawmakers should be telling their cops to chill out and quit fabricating a problem to inflate their budget. Cops in one county say they've arrested more people in four months since sales in Colorado became legal, never mind that marijuana possession and use of an ounce or less has been legal for adults 21 and up for more than a year before that.
"We are paying for them to be housed. We are paying for them to be fed. We are paying for their medical expenses, which a lot of them do have," whined Duel County Sheriff Adam Hayward. "And then a lot of them, even though they have money to buy drugs, they don't have money to pay for an attorney. Therefore, the county has to pay for the public defender."
At least one politician says he wants to make marijuana penalties even harsher next session. "It would be a good idea, in my mind, if they would have harsher fines, as far as those people caught with under a pound," said state Sen. Ken Schilz.
"We're just going to keep after it and try to get ahead of it," Hayward said.
And they've certainly got the local media on their side as well, as evidenced by KETV reporter Dave Roberts quip at the end of his report:
"While Nebraska lawmakers and law enforcers need to work things out, the clock is ticking. With each moment, Colorado marijuana costs Nebraska taxpayers a little bit more."
By William Breathes in Legalize It, News
Friday, May 9, 2014 at 9:20 am
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2014/05/nebraska_cops_continue_to_complain_about_colorado. php
The police and statists in NE are using CO's new marijuana law as an excuse to grow arrest people and grow the size of the governments located in NE. Oh, and they get paid to complain about it. Some people just cannot seem to keep in classy :(
http://cdn1.image.bored.com/user/21018/media/54ae3b0069Whine_jpg.jpeg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/nebraska.highway.check.jpg
Here is a NE highway check point. Is it set-up to stop cars with CO plates?
If you listened to the law enforcement in Nebraska, you'd think that the world is coming to an end and it's staring just west in Colorado. They've been doing it for months now.
In their latest installment of public whining, cops say that they find pot in one out of every five cars they search coming from Colorado now - all but admitting that all they do these days is profile cars from Colorado specifically to write tickets and make arrests for even the tiniest amount of cannabis they can find.
According to KETV in Nebraska, lawmakers in that state aren't doing anything about it. Probably because they really can't, aside from asking the feds to sue Colorado to stop the laws. But really, they lawmakers should be telling their cops to chill out and quit fabricating a problem to inflate their budget. Cops in one county say they've arrested more people in four months since sales in Colorado became legal, never mind that marijuana possession and use of an ounce or less has been legal for adults 21 and up for more than a year before that.
"We are paying for them to be housed. We are paying for them to be fed. We are paying for their medical expenses, which a lot of them do have," whined Duel County Sheriff Adam Hayward. "And then a lot of them, even though they have money to buy drugs, they don't have money to pay for an attorney. Therefore, the county has to pay for the public defender."
At least one politician says he wants to make marijuana penalties even harsher next session. "It would be a good idea, in my mind, if they would have harsher fines, as far as those people caught with under a pound," said state Sen. Ken Schilz.
"We're just going to keep after it and try to get ahead of it," Hayward said.
And they've certainly got the local media on their side as well, as evidenced by KETV reporter Dave Roberts quip at the end of his report:
"While Nebraska lawmakers and law enforcers need to work things out, the clock is ticking. With each moment, Colorado marijuana costs Nebraska taxpayers a little bit more."