Catching drug dealers at a Phish concert must be like shooting phish in a barrel

As I have said before...bulldoze Shoreline.

To clarify previous comment, I meant bulldoze Shoreline Amphitheatre...not Shoreline park!!!!

The police should not have to state a reason for enforcing all of the laws.
It was stated in the article that they enforced the drug law to save people for buying drugs, it's not legal to buy drugs so the buyers should also be arrested. Do this enough and it will soon be know that Mountain View is not a place for drugs, probably take a year or so.

Stick enforcement of all laws including traffic laws is needed here in Mountain View.

"...people who are under the influence of the psychedelic drugs tend to be more susceptible to thefts or assaults."

Sad but unsurprising that the MV Voice should serve as stenographers for police and repeat something so ludicrous without any pushback. The police actually claim with a straight face that they harass and arrest people engaged in consensual behavior in order to *protect* those poor drug users from overdose, theft and assault. Orwell much?

The targeted drugs are all quite valuable healing tools, as well. Steve Jobs said that taking LSD was one of the most important and valuable experiences of his life. You think his life would have been improved if the cops had arrested him? MDMA (Ecstasy) is such a powerful healing tool that the U.S. Army is fighting to have it available for its veterans with PTSD. Psilocybin mushrooms appear to actually rebuild damaged brain cells, and show promise for a wide variety of conditions including depression and cluster headaches. Cannabis, of course, can help alleviate literally *hundreds* of mental & physical conditions.

Most people with experience with these substances, even in a "recreational" setting like a concert, know them to be extremely wonderful at facilitating profound, often transcendent experiences. In a "free" society, cognitive freedom is a basic human right.

The War on (Some) Drugs is a crime against humanity for so many reasons, including the fact it empowers police to use guns & violence (which is what an arrest is) against adults at concerts engaged in entirely victimless behavior. [Please don't try to claim that arrests are warranted because someone can theoretically die from illegal drug use unless you also support criminal penalties against liquor store owners for the 50,000+ deaths from alcohol each year.]

Rodger: Your notion that "enforcing the drug laws" would lead to a drug-free Mountain View is an ahistorical fantasy easily debunked by an examination of the last 50 years of draconian drug policy. The War on (Some) Drugs has a 100% failure rate in quashing illegal drug availability.