TRENTON — Retired State Police Narcotics Detective Lt. Dominck Bucci said he was a loyal soldier in President Nixon's War on Drugs that began in 1971.
Today, he looks back with regret on many of the arrests he made for marijuana possession, telling a state Senate committee Monday: " I can't help thinking I let people down."
"I've spent most of my career fighting the failed war on drugs, and I have seen the message that enforcement of our harsh marijuana law sends: if we catch you experimenting, we will do everything we can to ruin your future," said Bucci, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, or LEAP.
