Consequences of Legalization according to Illinois

[KMFJD]

http://theweek.com/speedreads/77190...ijuana-legalized-theyll-have-kill-police-dogs

They're gonna euthanize a number of their sniffer dogs....smh

'The training director of a police K-9 academy in Illinois claims that if the state legalizes recreational marijuana, it will likely have to euthanize "a number" of its pot-sniffing dogs, The Pantagraph reports.'

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Those poor dogs in Colorado, Washington, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Maine (to be continued...)

 

[Thebobo]

lol what a load of bullshit.

"Marijuana advocates are skeptical about the threat. "The idea that legalizing for adults to have an ounce on them will equal ... all these dogs being euthanized, that seems kind of ridiculous and hyperbolic," the executive director of the advocacy group NORML, Dan Linn, told The Pantagraph. Petrilli likewise said the dogs would likely continue to live with their handlers in retirement, and in states where the drug has already been legalized, some K-9s have simply been retrained to ignore the (much more frequent) whiffs of pot. Read the full report about what is to become of the police dogs at The Pantagraph."

 

[ch33zw1z]

I'm sure the dogs will keep busy with items like heroine, meth, and cocaine. No problem found.

 

[balloonshark]

Maybe they can pick themselves up by the bootstraps, go back to school and learn to detect more dangerous drugs.

 

[PottedMeat]

i'm sure there are quite a few parents that would love to adopt a weed hunting hound

 

[1sikbITCH]

The truth of the matter is this power tripping POS is going to likely lose his gun and his badge from downsizing and now he's acting like a 3 year old threatening to kill dogs.

I say legalize weed or...

 

[Genx87]

Cops killing dogs? Seems like a sport for them.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

 

[K1052]

Total bullshit. We're probably going to legalize next year.

 

[sdifox]

Hold it. The next man that makes a move, the doggie gets it.

 

[Sunburn74]

I guess the rational thing to do is to hire no more dogs, wait until all the current dogs are dead and then legalize marijuana for human consumption.

 

[dank69]

Yet another standard example of conservative logic.

 

[brycejones]

http://theweek.com/speedreads/77190...ijuana-legalized-theyll-have-kill-police-dogs

They're gonna euthanize a number of their sniffer dogs....smh

'The training director of a police K-9 academy in Illinois claims that if the state legalizes recreational marijuana, it will likely have to euthanize "a number" of its pot-sniffing dogs, The Pantagraph reports.'

This has to be about the dumbest argument I've ever seen against legalization. Next up: If we throw less people in jail for pot we'll have to kill the guards we don't need anymore. Won't someone think of the guards and their families?

 

[zinfamous]

Maybe they can pick themselves up by the bootstraps, go back to school and learn to detect more dangerous drugs.

 

[interchange]

Yet another standard example of conservative logic.

Yeah it's pretty gross. I won't necessarily label it conservative logic, but I agree there is a big differential especially under Trump in weaponizing these leaps of logic. Some people are certainly intentionally copying Trump's tactics because they have worked to mobilize a large group of people. The net effect, of course, is that the Republican party alienates people they need to stay in power and the effectiveness of governance overall suffers greatly. But for the individual Republican politician, they always have more to gain by being Trumpish. Prisoner's dilemmas are intriguing, but this one is not good for the country.

 

[vi edit]

This has to be about the dumbest argument I've ever seen against legalization. Next up: If we throw less people in jail for pot we'll have to kill the guards we don't need anymore. Won't someone think of the guards and their families?

Democrats should have used this this logic when debating Obamacare repeal. What are going to do with all of those nurses and doctors that will be unemployed? I guess we'll just have to kill them. Won't somebody think of the nurses!