Great for the police and Rosco! Drugs do an incredible amount of damage to our society and need stomped on. Now we need more education support from the state so that people get better jobs and more hope.

I would also ask the police to start enforcing traffic safety laws again. I was almost hit 4 times on a short commute this morning. I counted 6 red light runners at just 1 intersection. Boise is now worse to drive in than Philadelphia or DC. Most Livable City is quickly declining.

erico49, Louis Armstrong spent 9 days in jail in 1930, for smoking Demon Reefer outside a California jazz club. So it started before Nixon. (The movie, “Reefer Madness” hails from 1936.)

At this point, it would appear that the primary “reefer madness” is the misguided reaction to a relatively benign drug. State by state, the war is being scaled back. (Idaho and Utah will probably be #49 and #50.)

I’m another “concerned neighbor” when it comes to meth, heroin, etc. – indeed, there is plenty of evidence that they DO damage our society in the form of addictive behavior, crime to “support the habit,” related violence, etc. So I’d give Rosco a scratch behind the ears for his work, at least in the cases cited by the Guardian. (Is legal prosecution the best response? I don’t know… but it should be part of the available arsenal in the war.)

I’m opposed to the legalization of hard drugs. I think second time excessive DUIs should be shot at the side of the road. I think marijuana should not be used by anyone who is not in pain and terminally ill because it triggers psychosis in many who would have stayed sane.

Most likely these were good busts. So don’t take this wrong. That said, we do have to be very careful with cop searches because cops often want an arrest more than they respect your rights. They are dysfunctional about admitting when they’re wrong.

Devil’s advocate, otherwise known as a defense lawyer explained — As we all know power can will and has been abused in America. Because the drug trade runs on cash all cash has drug residue on it which the dogs will hit on if conditions are right. Some dogs and dog handlers are not well trained. Beware they might run a dog around the car who’s only good at finding tennis balls but claim he’s a special drug dog. So finding large quantities of drugs is one thing as opposed to having the cops rummage through your life finding nothing because the dog or the handler smelled the loose change in the ashtray. This is also a very good reason to never give your pothead friends a ride and never let them in your house.

Watch the video clip of the East Idaho rest stop accusation and search under false pretenses where a Trooper claimed he smelled drugs when all he had was a out of state plate and a bad tip.

Where is Idaho at with changing our asset forfeiture laws to be constitutional? Beware; ACLU does not give a crap about Idaho because we vote too far right.

Too many old white guys trying to force their archaic ideas on the rest of society.

Listed offenders’ age:
29 26 26 29 32 29

Idaho GOP says, “we need less government intruding in our lives” (as long as you believe the same as we do). Rep Labrador says on tape, we votes his own personal moral opinion regardless of what his constituents believe.

Solution:
Legalize drugs and use the proceeds for education and treatment centers- not prison beds. It’s the alcohol and tobacco model.
Imagine a week when no one gets arrested and the jail is empty. Budgets would crumble. Ha!

Guardian, your headline has “Five”, you wrote a “a couple arrests”, but you list six suspects… Seems a little “suspicious” writing behavior. Perhaps BPD & Roscoe will be visiting your den. 😉

EDITOR NOTE–In my defense the press release wasn’t clear, but it appeared not ALL arrests were credited to Rosco. You win on the total count… I didn’t scroll far enough.