Why Do Cops Care About Pot?

Because targeting marijuana gives police departments access to federal anti-drug money. Mike Meno sighs:

As we've stated many times before,marijuana eradication programs are not only horribly ineffective atreducing the supply of marijuana, but even worse, they force lawenforcement to commit massive amounts of resources and manpower tomarijuana offenses at the expense of much more serious crimes. That'swhy it's so insane for the federal government to encourage and rewardthis type of...