Here’s one for the Drug War Injustice files: A Cop in Dearborn, Michigan lost his job because he and his wife were caught making up marijuana brownies. Naturally, he acquired the weed by taking it off criminal suspects in the line of duty. But I can’t decide whether the real outrage is that Cpl. Sanchez was allowed to quit his job without any criminal charges being filed or that the reason he got caught was that he he got so stoned he called 911 thinking he and his wife were “overdosing” on marijuana.

“I think we’re dying,” he said in the 5-minute tape, obtained under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.

“We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do,” Sanchez continued.

He told the dispatcher he had never made marijuana brownies before, but had previously used marijuana.

Then, he asked the score of the Red Wings game on television that night, explaining, “I just want to make sure this isn’t some type of, like, hallucination that I’m having.”

The Detroit Free Press, God bless ‘em, also has audio of his 911 call. You can download the MP3 here, or find it on the link above. (I smell a remix project!)

How many sob stories has Radley chronicled on this site about overzealous cops and prosecutors ruining people’s lives for the most minor drug infraction? And this guy abuses all sorts of police authority so he can get high and just walks away? Not that readers of this site are likely to be surprised…

(via the awesome metafilter, where Radley and I are both members)

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