Dissent On U.S. Drug Laws May Come With A Loss Of Your Job

United States Customs and Border Protection agents waiting to inspect cars at Nogales, Ariz., an area where marijuana smuggling has been active. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Police Officers Find That Dissent on Drug Laws May Come With a Price -- New York Times

PHOENIX — Border Patrol agents pursue smugglers one moment and sit around in boredom the next. It was during one of the lulls that Bryan Gonzalez, a young agent, made some comments to a colleague that cost him his career.

Stationed in Deming, N.M., Mr. Gonzalez was in his green-and-white Border Patrol vehicle just a few feet from the international boundary when he pulled up next to a fellow agent to chat about the frustrations of the job. If marijuana were legalized, Mr. Gonzalez acknowledges saying, the drug-related violence across the border in Mexico would cease. He then brought up an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition that favors ending the war on drugs.

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My Comment: The law IS the law. If you do not like the law, find another line of work or vote for someone who shares your point of view and will work to change the law.