And I thank you for posting this example of hypocrisy of the "War on Drugs" dogma that must simply be stopped. Never worked on banning guns, whiskey, other types of alcohol, and cigarettes so what makes them think that prisoning potheads while some cops use cigarettes.
I agree with you that the war on drugs has to end but I wouldn't call it hypocrisy because cops don't believe in natural law but in positive law. For them not every drug is simply a drug that someone can use if he owns it. For positivists a drug magically becomes something different if the law says so. ;)