Posted on Mar 12, 2018
If all taxes went to fund police in schools would you be for legalizing recreational marijuana federally?
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I did some math the other day using the $70 million dollars CO takes in from weed taxes. The rough average expense for hiring a new police officer is about 100k I went on the high side to stay conservative. That would come out to 700 LEOs hired in the first year. That number would go down every year. Eventually no additional police could be hired using just the tax money, but with the average salary of a police being roughly 55k/yr about 1200 police would be in a job because of the taxes. IN just so happens to have roughly 1200 public schools. Now the numbers of taxable weed sales and police salary would vary from state to state but it seems like a very easy solution and to be honest it could be one of the least controversial solutions. Trained guns in every school at no additional cost to people who chose not to partake in cannabis consumption.
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Pot should already be legalized - just like Hemp should not be an issue - especially with all the uses for each of these plants - but then again if they were both legalized it would probably put the pharmaceutical companies out of business.
As for funding police in schools - leave that to the states and local municipalities - not the Federal
As for funding police in schools - leave that to the states and local municipalities - not the Federal
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I am already for legalizing recreational MJ federally. Economically it makes sense. Heck, legalizing ALL drugs and then taxing and regulating them would be more than enough to pay for Universal Health Care - which would cover any medical issues arising from any potential increase in drug-related problems.
As for more cops, I don't think we really need any more - we really need to use the ones we have more wisely. We've slipped into an us v them mentality when it comes to policing, and that's the wrong answer. We need to get back to community-oriented policing where the police are a PART of the community they are protecting and serving. We need fewer cops worrying about whether you're doing 40 in a 30 and more who are walking the streets and talking to the people.
As for more cops, I don't think we really need any more - we really need to use the ones we have more wisely. We've slipped into an us v them mentality when it comes to policing, and that's the wrong answer. We need to get back to community-oriented policing where the police are a PART of the community they are protecting and serving. We need fewer cops worrying about whether you're doing 40 in a 30 and more who are walking the streets and talking to the people.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
SPC David Willis - I get that. I think school shootings are a by-product of greater societal issues and until we address those, no amount of security is going to stop soft-targets from being shot up.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
I totally agree on legalizing drugs. The first thing it does is take the profit motive away from all those selling and killing each other, and at least the addict can get a product that he can be reasonably sure of the strength and purity. If you look at the end of Prohibition, the murder rate plummeted in this country and didn't start rising again until the new prohibitions against drugs started hot and heavy.
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