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MJ Experiment Costs DeKalb Officers Their Jobs
Posted by FoM on September 09, 1999 at 08:22:08 PT
By R. Robin McDonald
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
When two DeKalb County police officers asked a local lawyer to smoke a joint in front of other officers to demonstrate the effects of marijuana on a driver, there's only one question that comes to mind. What were they thinking? 
Maybe they weren't concerned because it was less than an ounce of pot and the demonstration, according to DeKalb police, was in the controlled environment of the DeKalb County Jail. Maybe they were thinking of similar demonstrations in which willing subjects have been asked to drink until they became intoxicated to show what a 0.08 blood-alcohol level really means. Except for one big difference. "Drinking is legal," DeKalb Police Chief Bobby Burgess said. "Smoking dope is not." Officers D.L. Nix and Norman McGrath--both assigned to the department's Strategic Traffic Accident Reduction team--used marijuana confiscated during an arrest by a fellow officer to stage the field demonstration for other officers at the Georgia Police Academy, Burgess said. They enlisted a local lawyer as a guinea pig, police said. The field exercise's supervisor, an Atlanta police officer, apparently didn't try to stop the demonstration. Some of the attending police officers subsequently complained. So did the director of the Georgia Police Academy when he found out. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the participants. But after the DeKalb police internal affairs division began investigating the allegations against Nix and McGrath, Nix apologized and resigned. Two weeks later, on Aug. 24, McGrath was fired, Burgess said. Pubdate: September 9, 1999© 1999 Cox Interactive Media 
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Comment #6 posted by justaguy on April 14, 2001 at 00:20:29 PT:
YO Good idea boys.
Man, I gotta go get my lawyer high!!!
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Comment #5 posted by Mr. $andman on October 16, 2000 at 00:04:21 PT
keep rollem' swollen
hell ya fuck it. Im for anybody that tokes a fattie just puff puff pass it left hand man ya know what. keep the bowl fresh and dont forget who made the shit. ONE
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Comment #4 posted by Bob B. on September 10, 1999 at 09:53:37 PT:
Shakespeare was right. 
William Shakespeare was right when he said "all the worlds a stage" Just when you think you've seen it all...you hear of something like this. Obviously the cops have demonstrated that marijuana is safe to use...after all, they get theirs for FREE.  
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Comment #3 posted by Dankhank on September 09, 1999 at 15:16:41 PT:
Waaaahaaaaa
It boggles the mind, but I'm glad to hear it..I'm from Georgia, have relative there and visit regularly.Wait 'till they hear this ...
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Comment #2 posted by Ganja Man on September 09, 1999 at 12:50:53 PT:
Hope
Maybe theres sum hope 4 D pigs after all!BWAHHAHAHAH!
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Comment #1 posted by DeseretDude on September 09, 1999 at 10:59:15 PT:
What Next?
I cannot believe this. Although it should not be the law enforcement sector that should be aloud to comment in an official format on any issue about the validitaty of a law that they must enforce (Laws are voted on and passed by the people. Law Enforcement is to enforce these laws, not question them! For questioning should come from a different sector)As they are some of the loudest oponents to decrim of marijuana that there is. Yet they have answered one of our arguments. Marijuana is safe to use. The ploice demonstrated this, when they allowed someone to smoke an amount in front of a group of peers. By doing this this they are and then enforceing a these laws is somewhat hypocritical.
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