Former Seattle Chief of Police Norm Stamper dishes honestly and frankly about why marijuana should be legal in an interview with Reason.tv.
The interview is a rare attitude from someone who was paid to be an adversarial member of the war on drugs for several decades — an honest view that acknowledges the drug is involved in greater illegal activity but the act itself might not be as apocryphal as everyone says and believes.
[...] people within law enforcement have begun to question the war on drugs. Norm Stamper, a former Seattle Police Chief, an active member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) [...]
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