Lieutenant Diane Goldstein (Retired) Invites You to Help End Marijuana Prohibition

I’m Diane Goldstein. I served with the Redondo Beach Police Department for more than 20 years, retiring as a Lieutenant. I started as a strong supporter of the war on drugs, but over the course of my career, I began to reconsider it, both because of what I saw professionally and personally. Over my career I arrested a significant number of people for drug use and possession. But I came to realize this didn’t help anyone: Our neighborhoods continued to have access to drugs, while we wasted fiscal