This Texas Police Chief Just Said Something Incredible About Legalizing Marijuana

By Scott Bixby December 6, 2014

Make it national.

That’s the message Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland has on the issue of marijuana legalization. The local police chief is making national headlines after stating that the moment has likely come for the state of Texas — and the United States in general — to legalize the possession of marijuana.

“We cannot criminalize such a large population of society that engage in casual marijuana use,” McClelland told KPFT 90.1 FM on Friday. “Most of us understand, we do believe, those of us that are law enforcement executives, that the war on drugs, the 1980 drug policies, was a miserable failure, there’s no doubt about that.”

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