Barry Cooper is a former drug cop who claims to have seen the light.

In an interview posted on his site, Cooper states, “The drug war is a failed policy and the legal side effects on the families are worse than the drugs. I was so wrong in the things I did back then. I ruined lives.”

To make amends, Cooper has released his new DVD “Never Get Busted Again.” For $24.95, Cooper will teach you how to outsmart the cops.

“If you have a DARE sticker or a Say No to Drugs sticker, that alerted me to you,” he says. “You would not believe the people I arrested with those types of stickers on their cars. Cops do not trust people, period. Because they get lied to every single day.”

Cooper’s Rules:

Number One: Don’t put any stickers on your car. Nothing. Supporting law enforcement, belonging to a frat, being a Vietnam vet — all of these make the fuzz notice you, and your primary mission is to blend in. That means no reckless driving, no overly safe driving. Blend.

Number Two: Add a woman to the mix. Nothing says “stoners” like a carload of sausage.

Number Three: Hide your pot in food. It won’t fool the drug dogs (they’re too smart for that) but it might confuse the handlers (no comment).

Number Four: Roll in the rain. No one likes to get wet, not even cops.

Number Five: If you’re only holding a small amount of weed and a cop wants to search your car, give him consent. That’s right: Give him consent. “When an American exercises his constitutional right to refuse consent to search of a vehicle, that is a huge reasonable suspicion to a cop,” says Cooper. “A hundred percent of the time when somebody refused consent, I always found something they didn’t want me to see.” If the police want inside your car, they will get inside your car, even if that means hanging out on the side of the road until a warrant or a dog arrives. Give consent, and they probably won’t look very hard. After all, you’ve got nothing to hide.

It would be wonderful if you could learn to outfox law enforcement for $24.95, but let’s have a toke and ponder this for just a moment.

Cooper’s advice is suspect. Civil libertarians point specifically to Cooper’s advice that you should consent to a search when you have marijuana in the car. They warn that consent validates the search and kills any chance to challenge the evidence in court. FlexYourRights.org ran this review of Cooper’s video and addressed this concern.

Cooper also still runs something of a shtick on his website.

“Cooper says he used to tell drug offenders they were under arrest and not cuff ‘em right away, hoping for a fight or flight. When pulling people over, sometimes he’d light them up from far behind, just so they could consider flooring it. The adrenaline was addictive.”

This sounds more like someone playing a cop on TV than an actual police officer. If tough-guy cop shtick is your thing, and you think $24.95 will get you the goods on your local 5-0, his website is www.nevergetbusted.com.

But the drug cops have already watched this DVD. They’ve laughed their asses off at 90% of it and have figured out a dozen ways to fix the other 10%.

I’d rather drop my money on a gram of the finest Kush.