Illinois Police Threaten to Kill K-9 Dogs if Marijuana Is Legalized

P.J. Media ^ | May 8, 2018 | Tyler O'Neil

[AAABEST]

ROFL... that's the first thing I thought of when I read the title.

"Don't legalize marijuana, or we'll kill these dogs."

[jazminerose]

If they are strictly dope dogs and not dual purpose, eg patrol and dope, they could possibly be adoptable by civilians.

There would be no problem rehoming K9s into experienced homes. I used to do it myself. There are plenty of former handlers and IPO trainers who will be happy to take them.

This is a despicable piece of grandstanding.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A lot of people would LOVE to have dogs like these!

Every mom with a teenage boy.

[ZOOKER]

There will always be places where you can't smoke dope.

Would you want your bus driver or airline pilot blazing up on the job? How about school hallways? Judges' chambers?

Even if you make it legal, you still need the dogs. This is over-the-top non-issue

[FreedomNotSafety]

“And am I allowed to vote and voice those opinions without being labeled ‘anti’freedom’. Apparently not. Quite ironic.”

“allowed” by whom? Did you join some sort of polite debating society? I am labelling you as anti-freedom. Without a law in place it is not a crime to use mj which is what freedom looks like. With the idiotic laws you support we are less free. With all of the repressive government power grabs you support even the non mj users are less free.

You are anti-freedom.

[FreedomNotSafety]

I knew a well trained hunting dog turned family pet after it’s owner passed away. The dog adapted fine. He flushed every living thing in the small yard he was penned in. Couldn’t take him near water. But he loved the kids.

[publius911]

Police organizations oppose legalizing marijuana for recreational use, and some marijuana advocates have condemned them for dangling canine death as a political tool.

I have never used marijuana and never intend to, but I must agree with the loser dopers on this one.

Any member of a police department who would make such a suggestion doesn't belong in law enforcement.
Hell, I would never want to live in the same neighborhood with such a presumptuous emotionally dead loser.

[bramps]

But you might as well understand that you are supporting civil asset seizures, gun control, no-knock warrants, and other totalitarian idiocy when you support continued prohibition.
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Adding condescension and strawhen does not reinforce your argument.

[bramps]

So in your philosophy of government, anything that is “a bad idea for society” may properly be banned?
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I hate to break it to you but the answer to your question is undeniably yes, obviously constrained within the Constitution, and determined by a vote of the free public which is obviously going to depend on everyone’s life experience to tell them what’s good and bad for society. If you have a different philosophy please expound upon it. When may something be properly banned from society and who gets to determine it?

[bramps]

With all of the repressive government power grabs you support even the non mj users are less free.
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You started hitting the bong early today huh?

[minnesota_bound]

I remember seeing a Dragnet episode in the 1960’s showing a dog finding drugs. It was new back then.

Narcotics: DR-21
Episode aired 30 January 1969

Dragnet Jack Webb “Alcohol VS. Marijuana & LSD” Great Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

[ExGeeEye]

Since the dogs are trained to “alert” on command (there are too many stories about dogs alerting on the total absence of criminal leaves), it’s only necessary to retrain the two-legged critters that certain leaves are to be ignored.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Never touched the stuff but even if I did it’s no defense for your power triping. MJ is not nearly as addicting as ruling over people. I avoid both. You are anti- freedom.

[Chode]

so much for them being a member of the police... kick one and you goto jail, they can kill them with impunity

[NobleFree]

So in your philosophy of government, anything that is “a bad idea for society” may properly be banned?

I hate to break it to you but the answer to your question is undeniably yes, obviously constrained within the Constitution,

"Yes, except" is not "yes."

and determined by a vote of the free public which is obviously going to depend on everyone’s life experience to tell them what’s good and bad for society. If you have a different philosophy please expound upon it. When may something be properly banned from society and who gets to determine it?

This nation's Declaration of Independence gives the American answer: "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men". [emphasis added]