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Why should cops risk their lives fighting crime when they can make big bucks helping drug dealers by turning their heads and looking the other way. Or by participating and arresting a drug dealers competitors. Or by stealing drugs giving them to a drug dealer to sell for a cut of the profits.

If marijuana were completely legalized with no government controls or very little government regulation, marijuana would drop from the current price of $300 an ounce or $4,800 a pound and wouldn't cost any more then a pound of tomatoes or potatoes.

And of course neither the police or the cartels would be able to make big bucks pushing drugs which sell for a few dollars a pound. That would cause the cartels to go out of business and end the police corruption associated with the "War on Drugs".

But don't count on the MPP initiative to end the black market or crime associated with the black market.

The MPP initiative will create of cartel of a maximum of 160 legal recreational dealers, who will sell recreational marijuana at $300 an ounce or $4,800 a pound just like they sell medical marijuana for $300 an ounce or $4,800 a pound.

And those outrageous profits will allow the black market and police corruption to co-exist with so called phoney baloney MPP legalization of marijuana.

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Ex-Phoenix police officer pleads not guilty to hindering prosecution at strip club

Danielle Quijada, The Republic | azcentral.com 1:50 p.m. MST June 28, 2016

A former Phoenix police officer accused of hindering a prosecution entered a not guilty plea during his arraignment Tuesday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Richard Denny, 39, and his co-defendant, Sebastian Castillo, 35, were indicted by a Maricopa County Superior Court grand jury on a charge of hindering prosecution after warning patrons and employees at a west Phoenix strip club about a criminal investigation, according to court documents.

Employees and patrons of the club were suspected of participating in the sale or transportation of dangerous drugs, the indictment said.

Denny stood before Judge Julie Mata on Tuesday morning as she scheduled his next court date for Aug. 9.

Mata ordered that Denny continue to avoid any type of contact with Castillo, who was to be arraigned separately.

The grand jury charged Castillo and Denny each with one count of hindering prosecution in the first degree, which is a Class 5 felony.

The indictments stated that, sometime around March 23, Castillo and Denny were on duty when they notified employees and patrons of the Essex Gentlemen’s Club about "a forthcoming discovery, apprehension, prosecution or conviction."

The two men recently resigned from the department, according to a Phoenix police spokesman.