US OR: PUB LTE: Measure 80 Lets Police Fight Real Crime

Portland Tribune, 13 Sep 2012 – In Dan Staton, Patrick Garrett and Eric Nisley’s op-ed, "Marijuana legalization is a lot of smoke" (Aug. 23), the authors suggest that law enforcement is unified in their opposition to Measure 80 on Oregon’s ballot, but that’s just not true. I am a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, an organization of current and former cops, judges, prosecutors and others advocating for marijuana legalization precisely because of what we saw on the front lines of the war on marijuana.