The moral of the story is marijuana prohibition is as dumb as some people...

"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

  It raises several issues of importance to a criminal justice system. (In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that on several occasions I have represented  police officers accused of misconduct or accused of crimes.)

   First, at the most basic level when those charged with enforcing the law violate it that in and of itself diminishes public confidence.

   Second, the hypocricy involved does make it dfferent than when a "civilian" violates the seame law.

    third, the specific nature of this offense involves acts which "obstruct justice" as justice is defined by our laws. Wilfully destroying evidence of a crime is not a trivial matter-- even if it is a trivial crime. (As an aside, when I was kid the police in my suburban community were not above pulling people over or breaking up parties and then giving the kids the option of beig arrested or just letting the cops take the goodies. It seemed like a "win-win" proposition to choose the latter and no doubt explains the "cops always have the best weed" belief).

  Cops who like drugs have a problem. Stealing is illegal, destroying or concealing evidence is illegal, extorting drugs from people in exchange for looking the other way is illegal, and buying drugs illegally is, duh, illegal. From a cop's perspective however the latter might present the most risk of apprehansion even if it is the least serious offense.

  One of the reasons why we should not only laugh at this is that these scenarios illustrate how much power the cop on the street has far from the eyes of courts judges and lawyers. If the cop takes your weed and sends you on your way but busts someone else for the same offense that's not right in a broader sense than weed smoking.

  This cop discreation is also not limited to funny stories of cops getting better weed than they expected and melting down. If  cop give  guy  passes-- or repeated passes-- because they are an informants,  we essentially have cops conspiring with one set of bad guys to get another set  all with little or no supervision or accountability.

Now, tell, everyone:  when was the last time you heard that?

If a regular citizen had done this they'd have serious problems, (don't forget about the part about the coke

his wife, Stacy Sanchez, admitted to police investigators that on another occasion she removed cocaine from her husband's police cruiser -- drugs purportedly earmarked to train police dogs -- and used it during a three-week binge. She, too, has not been charged criminally.

But leaving the serious charges aside, the f**king humor of it kills me:

Sanchez, a Dearborn police officer at the time, told the dispatcher he and his wife had eaten marijuana brownies and thought they had overdosed. He also says he thinks he's dead (at about 1:00 into the call) and asks the dispatcher for the score of the Red Wings game (at about 4:50 into the call).

So...he took someone else's cannabis as evidence of a crime...didn't properly turn it in as evidence...knowingly and willfully baked brownies with it, and then ate the brownies. And he's just going to diddy-bop over the horizon with nary a scratch, when God alone knows how many lives he cheerfully helped ruin by enforcing the insane cannabis laws of this country? As they used to say in school, "What's wrong with this picture?"