marijuana law hasn t yet taken effect. people are already getting the benefit of it? prosecutors across the state have started dropping demeanor drug possession charges for adults bust for less than an ounce of pot. election day voters in colorado and washington state voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana. in other words, you can smoke weed just to get high. legally. the law in washington doesn t take effect until next month. prosecutors say they decided to start dropping cases early. of course, one potential problem with the new law is that the federal government still considers marijuana illegal. and washington state s governor met today with the u.s. deputy attorney general to start figuring out how all this is going to work, or not. a millionaire behind a popular software company mcafee software that so many millions of us have is now at the center of investigation after his neighbor turned up dead. and so did his dogs. and now we re hearing stories about him that even ma
to seek criminal penalties for conduct that will be legal next month. true enough. however, in the same state out in the eastern part of washington state and spokane county, prosecutors there say they plan to keep arresting people just as they do now for pot related offenses. their argument in spokane is the only legal way to get pot in washington even after this new state law goes into effect will be to buy that pot from a state regulated pot store. and those state regulated pot stores don t exist yet, but they might soon be created if the federal government allows that to happen and nobody knows that the government will allow them to happen. this is policy soup, and i don t mean this as a munchies joke. this doesn t make any sense yet. joining us for the interview is neil frank linn. he served in law enforcement for 30 years as a narcotics officer with the maryland state police and is commander of training for the baltimore police department. thanks for joining us. thanks for havin
levels, and i think this is a win-win for police. in seattle the police chief said they re not going to arrest people for possession of marijuana anymore, even though the law doesn t take effect until december. it s a win-win because it has been drug prohibition like with marijuana that has driven a wedge in between police and community. number one, police can get back to the business that they want to do, of what they want to do, and that is to protect people from violent people. rape, robbery, murder. crimes against our children, domestic violence. we can get back to the business of that. we didn t most of us didn t sign on this job to it arrest people for smoking pot. it will repair it gives us an opportunity to repair the damage that has been done between police and community. you know, racial profiling, the foundation for racial profiling today in this country is the drug war. the drug war just doesn t work anymore. there s not one piece of it that works. we have more drugs in
county, prosecutors there say they plan to keep arresting people just as they do now for pot related offenses. their argument in spokane is the only legal way to get pot in washington even after this new state law goes into effect will be to buy that pot from a state regulated pot store. and those state regulated pot stores don t exist yet, but they might soon be created if the federal government allows that to happen and nobody knows that the government will allow them to happen. this is policy soup, and i don t mean this as a munchies joke. this doesn t make any sense yet. joining us for the interview is neil frank linn. he served in law enforcement for 30 years as a narcotics officer with the maryland state police and is commander of training for the baltimore police department. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. what a great lead-in. you are familiar with the laws than i am. did i get the contours of that
very short but 20,000 to 30,000. my god. i do think that it s really more so far it s the level of personal tragedy, and i think everyone understands that. there was an attempt by republicans to try to connect it to benghazi, to aaccuse obama of a coverup before the election as if it had been known before the election it would have had any effect. it wouldn t have. i think the political efforts are now over or seem to be subsiding, and so we re left with what this country really loves, a good, sorted sex scandal. on the issue of benghazi, the president is trying to put together his second term cabinet. there s been a lot of talk where john kerry is going to go. whether he would be secretary of state or defense. there s this question about whether susan rice might be elevated to secretary of state. the republicans, of course, tried to turn it into a national scandal that she commented after the benghazi attack and said that at that point best intelligence indicated it might