St. Louis Police Officer Gets Permission to Lobby for Legal Marijuana

[RainDog]

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/03/4327761/missouri-police-officer-gets-approval.html

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has reversed course and will allow a veteran officer to moonlight as a lobbyist for a pro-marijuana organization.

Dotson wrote to police Sgt. Gary Wiegert on Tuesday saying his request for "secondary employment" will be allowed.

Wiegert filed a complaint earlier this year with U.S. District Court claiming the department violated his First Amendment rights to free speech for refusing to allow him to lobby on behalf of Show-Me Cannabis.

Wiegert worked for three years as a lobbyist for the St. Louis Tea Party. In February, he submitted a new application to the department. The application did not require him to state for whom he would lobby. It was approved but revoked after the department learned Wiegert was lobbying for the pro-marijuana group.

LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) is a great resource to add another voice to the legalization discussion.

http://www.leap.cc/

Retired Superior Court Judge, David Nichols talks from long experience about the profound wastefulness of the prohibitionist approach to drug use and abuse.

[otherone]

1. score one for the first amendment

nice

[RainDog]

2. Quite a few law enforcement folks favor legalization

and, recently, the national lawyers guild endorsed legalization.

it's pretty amazing how many people support legalization - this entire situation has come about because the propaganda outfits of the U.S. govt. cannot control the flow of information about cannabis, or about the wide-ranging variety of Americans who support legalization.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RainDog.

[L0oniX]

4. K & R ...uhm ...is the NSA recording my K & R?

[RainDog]

5. LOL

Since the FBI visited me (and quite a few others in my burg) back when Bush was in power, I just assume the things I say are available if someone wants to find them.

At this point, however, so many people are in support of legalization, the federales cannot intimidate people out of their opinions.