BIG BUSTS KEEP POT PRICES HIGH

To The Editor,

RE: $5.3-million drug bust

The people happiest about this bust is the 90-95% of growers who will
never get caught. Nothing keeps the price of pot high like big busts!

In fact, it is the police and government's prohibition on pot that
makes growing pot so lucrative in the first place, and by tearing out
1,000 or 10,000 plants, the police are actually subsidizing these guys' rivals.

It also gives the police all the justification they need to demand
more troops and more money every year. They know perfectly well that
a bust - even one this size - will have little-to-no effect on the
availability of pot to the general public, but it will keep the
price, and profits, good and high.

It leads me to wonder just which side of the law they are really on.

Russell Barth

Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User Patients Against Ignorance
and Discrimination on Cannabis (PAIDOC) www.paidoc.org