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Man Given Ticket for Pro-Pot Sticker


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http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp...tion=5&id=28023

 

A pro-pot group alleges that an Aurora, Colorado police officer pulled over one of its members this week because he had a marijuana legalization sticker on the back of his vehicle.

 

Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER - which persuaded Denver voters to legalize adult possession of a small amount of marijuana - alleges the officer told Paul Wansing he was "offended" by the sticker and cited the 25- year-old chef for having a cracked windshield and an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror.

 

The officer, who wasn't identified, allegedly told Wansing that he wouldn't have been cited if he didn't have the sticker on his vehicle and that he didn't want his children to see such "trash."

 

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So, let's just stomp all over the Constitution, officer? What a thug. As Hunter Thompson once quipped: "We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."

 

And is not the drug war getting so insane that people are getting pulled over and harassed because of stickers on their car?

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If it is AGAINST THE LAW to have a cracked windshield and something hanging from your rear view mirror, why SHOULDN'T he be given a ticket? You can get pulled over for not wearing your seatbelt, and in some places for talking on a cell phone, so why not the window? Come on,if he was breakng the law, he was breaking the law.

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I also have to think that cop was looking for the smell of pot. A guy I used to play softball with(who is a cop in Carbondale, IL) told me that they hate citing people for little things like that because of the paperwork stream. Maybe the cop was pissed that he thought he nabbed a stoner and just said the first thing that came to his mind.

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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 13, 2006 -> 09:58 PM)
Yeah because cops have never been known to strongarm anybody or act out of line at all. /soaked in green

 

 

Oh and because that sometimes happens you automatically assume that particular cop was "bullying" someone with nothing but conjecture to back it up.

 

 

Pathetic. Even by your low standards.

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