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Editor's Note: Dr. Paul Chabot is an Iraq War veteran, serving first at the Office of Naval Intelligence, later with the Defense Intelligence Agency, in conjunction with an assignment in the Pentagon working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Military Command Center. He recently returned from serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with Special Operations Forces. Today, Paul serves with the U.S. 3rd Fleet conducting homeland security exercises. He currently holds the rank of Lt. Commander, with the United States Navy Reserve. Paul has over 14 years of law enforcement experience; serving as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department with specialized assignments to the narcotics and street gangs division. Paul also served full time with USC police at the University of Southern California. Paul is running for the 63rd Assembly District seat.
Without Remorse! Tom Ammiano's dangerous agenda.
Drug cartels have long ravaged our border and now have made their way into our Nation. In mid October, California law enforcement made a number of drug cartel related arrests here in our state, involving some of the most violent illegal aliens on our streets. These drug cartels not only bring into the U.S. heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, weapons, illegal aliens/human trafficking, but also a great deal of marijuana. What we are discovering as a state is that loose border policies allow thug organizations to attack, murder and rape our citizens. They do so under the guise of “business” as drug traffickers. They also control significant marijuana grows in our state’s forests, tended to by criminal illegal aliens. To legitimize marijuana would only fuel the black market for domestic sales, which would be controlled by violent drug cartels and domestic street gangs.
Some on the left talk about “all the tax” our state could receive from legalizing pot. What they fail to understand are the facts. A 2009 Columbia University study recently showed that with every dollar collected from cigarette tax, over $8 is spent cleaning up the health and societal costs (pot and tobacco share the same cancer causing chemicals). Legalizing pot is a non-starter for public safety. We already have enough problems with alcohol and prescription drug abuse that adding one more “so-called legit” substance to the market would surely further degrade our communities.
It’s especially startling considering the facts: More youth enter drug rehab for pot than any other drug combined; a 2009 National Highway Traffic Administration study shows more people are driving high on our roads than those that are drunk. New research shows links to testicular cancer, depression, schizophrenia, and many other ailments. Earlier this year, California rightfully placed pot under the products “known to cause cancer.”
Despite these facts, if the far left has their way, we will see more, not less harm done to our youth. We will see more drug cartel violence on our streets, not less. We will see more illegals crossing our border to facilitate the “pot black market” not less. Maybe that’s the grand plan the liberals have had in mind all along, and without remorse.
By Dr. Paul Chabot
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EDITORIAL
"Last week, the ultra liberal San Francisco Assemblyman, Tom Ammiano, ramped-up efforts to promote his destructive agenda in a public hearing championing for the legalization marijuana. Tom Ammiano, as the Chairman on the of the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee knows firsthand the dangers drugs bring to our community, as he is personally briefed by law enforcement officers and public safety officials on this specific topic. One would assume he has a responsibility to “public safety” but it appears the exact opposite is occurring. Having fought against drug legalization issues myself, on all fronts, it is time to stand-up and push back in order to protect our communities, our state, and most importantly our children from community destroying agenda’s as proposed by Tom Ammiano.