Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121202:14:46:00
Forcing legalization could have discretion of who to bust. >> institutional memory is pornlt. if you are a 42-year-old police officer, you have spent 15, 20 years busting people for marijuana. it's going to be a weird thing to turn on a dime. >> extremely weird. >> are we pretending cops don't smoke? >> no. no. >> i think alcohol and marijuana are different. they are instructed in so far let's set up a system like alcohol. >> that was an explicit argument. >> alcohol is responsible for 1 million more arrests a year than all drugs combined. 2.6 million arrests a year. this idea that it's no lon...