A thought-provoking piece from NORML Outreach Director Russ Bellville has been published on the Huffington Post. The title really says it all -- "If 'Cops Don't Make Laws, They Just Enforce Them,' Why Are Police Opposing Marijuana Legalization?"

The following is an excerpt, or you can CLICK HERE to read the entire piece:

Since fourteen states have legalized the use of cannabis for sick and disabled people we here at NORML have reported on numerous stories of medical users harassed, arrested, and jailed by police. We have also reported on healthy adults in all fifty states whose lives are turned upside down by an arrest, sometimes losing student loans, jobs, children, pets, dignity, property, and freedom over a single joint, seed, or even a cannabis stem. When we and others bring up these insane injustices to the police who are making these arrests, we often hear the platitude that "cops don't make the laws, we just enforce the laws."

So why do we consistently see representatives of law enforcement opposing medical marijuana, marijuana decriminalization, and marijuana legalization efforts in state legislatures?