A Cop Turns

An ex-Texas cop decides to make a DVD telling people how to hide drugs from the cops. Why? Because he realizes how wrong and unfair the war on pot is.

But when Cooper left West Texas and moved to Upshur County in East Texas, things began to turn. First, Cooper arrested the mayor’s son for possession of methamphetamines. He then arrested a city councilman for driving with a bag of pot and a gun. Busting long-hairs on the highway was one thing, but the aggressive narcotics officer was not endearing himself to important people in East Texas. After four years, Cooper left law enforcement behind. He then discovered a little of what life is like on the other side of the police baton.

“I used to break into houses at three o’clock in the morning with 10 other men, after throwing a flash grenade through the window,” Cooper says. “I would drag Mom and Dad away and send the kids to the department of human services — over a bag of pot — and totally ruin that entire family. I started reaping what I had sown.”

Without the cloak of being a police officer and in the middle of a contentious divorce, Cooper was on the wrong side of small-town politics. He was arrested for returning rental movies late and for unlawfully carrying a gun. His ex-brother-in-law, a constable, showed up with an order to remove his two girls. They put up such a fight, the effort was abandoned.

All of the charges against Cooper were eventually reduced or dismissed entirely, but he was angry. So he figured out a way to hit back — and make money doing it.

The amount of time, money and tax dollars wasted on arresting, convicting, prosecuting and imprisoning pot smokers or dealers when there are so many other more important things we could focus on, is absurd. It’s not one of those drugs like Meth or Crack that has massive health and crime consequences. A lot of countries have decriminalized it. Many states have voted to make it legal, at least medically. The Feds keep trying to squash that. You have to wonder what that’s all about.

And no, I don’t do drugs. Never have. But I believe our society would solve a lot more problems and achieve better results if we stopped wasting our time trying to control people and looked for positive solutions to things. Sending people to prison for something like having a bag of weed not only ruins someone’s life, it costs tax payers a lot of money that could go to fixing roads or bridges. Or improving schools.

A lot of cops ignore situations where someone has weed. This guy took his civil disobediance further. You have to wonder when society will stop this prohibition. It’s as pointless as the one against alcohol. 

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