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Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Should Cops Use Pot and Stories From The Arizona State Police

Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts

Steven D Gould

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

AJ Jacobs has gone from Arizona State Trooper to marijuana advocate. I talk about my concerns with marijuana and AJ brings some great info about the benefits of responsible use. Of course, AJ also brings some great war stories from his time on the job! Check out his podcast and instagram listed below!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is things police see.

0:04.0

First-Han accounts with your host, Steve Gold.

0:07.6

Welcome to the podcast, interviews act and retired police officer,

0:10.3

both your most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the jorb.

0:14.4

It is I, old ginger face.

0:16.6

Not that you're aware, but this is the second time around.

0:19.1

I'm starting to have real questions about the hardware I purchased for this show. Spent a lot of money on. It keeps failing me. But here I am, guys. I'll stop my bitching. Thank you for being here. Thank you for finding the podcast. Thank you for all the binge listening. I apologize for my voice. I am in the midst of some kind of cold trying to get over it. You know, I was at work

0:39.8

all week doing doubles and my family was home sick as hell and I was like, I'm escaping this.

0:45.8

Sometimes that happens for me, but not this time. My last, my last ship at work pounding headache,

0:50.9

throat was on fire. So I'm on day three, but I'm dedicated to you. I'm

0:57.0

dedicated to the audience. I didn't want to skip an interview and I was excited to have this guy on.

1:02.2

So without further ado, let me bring him on the show. He's got over a decade in law enforcement

1:07.2

as an Arizona state trooper. He did four years active duty for the Air Force.

1:11.1

He's the host of the Blue to Green podcast. Without further ado, bring on the great AJ Jacobs.

1:18.8

AJ. Hello, sir. Hello, sir. Good to see you once again. We're back now again. We're back.

1:25.9

We're back again. Yeah, I'm excited to have you, brother.

1:28.6

And, you know, I'm always looking for guests.

1:31.4

And there's a lot of, there's a lot of coppers kind of getting into the space now, being on social media and helping people and sharing their experiences.

1:40.8

It was actually really benefits me.

1:42.6

But you came up on my radar.

1:44.2

I don't know if it was the algorithm or I think maybe we're in a chat together with a bunch of other coppers. I can't remember. Oh, okay, duh. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, let me grab this guy on. And I thought when I saw your show, it said blue to green. I thought it was like, oh, guy was a cop. Then he went in the army or, you know, he did something like that.

2:02.5

I didn't think it was security because, you know, they have green lights.

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