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Vice Section Commander Doesn't know his job
December 19, 2008 | 10:22 PM
"Vice Section Commander Captain Gerald Matsunaga says "there's no evidence marijuana is a cure for anything, that's why law enforcement is against it.""
This is an absolutely fallacious claim he is making. Police are not entrusted to enforce the laws they are "for" and ignore the ones they are "against". They are supposed to enforce the laws on the books and make arrests according to what is written and passed in the legislature and signed by the governor. Then the defendant gets to go to court where another branch of government determines whether the charges should stand by a jury of peers.
Of course, if police were involved in the original break in and beating, there's no way we will ever find out for sure since they will never turn one of their own in for a "pothead". Nor will the FBI be interested in investigating a crime perpetrated upon someone who was already violating Federal law.
The police, as a government agency, are not to have an opinion on whether marijuana should be legal or not. They may have their own personal opinions, but that should not have any bearing on the law as it is written. Although, as we all know, they do allow it alter their discretion.
Kukui
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