LETTER: Senator Singer team urges Lakewood officials to prevent ‘Impending Catastrophe’ as Marijuana dangers lurk
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Thank you Mr. Senator for all the good you do for our community. I would like to share my opinion with you and others who are curious enough to read this.
Marihuana legalization does pose a problem for our adolescent, children. If kids are using the substance it is extremally important that the parents should be aware of it for many reasons. However I don’t believe that our hard working and devoted police officers are the right people to deal with this problem. The police should be reserved for catching the illegal distributors, and for more dangerous substances. Police should never be allowed to have unprofessional interactions with community members.
Police should be able to notify parents at the very least. How else will parents be “aware of it” as you say? Also, unprofessional. Police confront crime. Anything the law says is a crime is a crime. And once it is considered a crime, police interactions are “professional” and part of their profession. It happens that confronting marijuana users and arresting them was once professional, despite the fact that sadly it isn’t today. But telling the parents of minors, who are not legally allowed to use it, should be considered “professional” according to this new very low standard of drug law enforcement.