I have almost 10 years of education and work experience in law enforcement both as a city police officer and deputy sheriff. The majority of my law enforcement career was spent working with the local communities and neighborhoods to reduce crime and community problems.
In my last few years as a police officer, I began to have regular encounters with citizens who were medical marijuana patients. It was during these incidents that I began to see that these patients were not the dirt bags and addicts that I had been trained to believe they were -- they werent drug abusers looking for an excuse to get high. I found them to be average people who wanted to live normal lives, fr