EFFORT TO GET MARIJUANA RAISES QUESTION OF WORTH

In the case against the Smith family, the police raided the home to
find the four pounds of marijuana which they knew was in the house.
They burst in, using flash bang grenades to disorient and confuse the
people in the house, and hoped to safely remove the marijuana without
anyone getting hurt. However, they were prepared to fight for the
"pot" and do whatever was necessary to get it. No one got hurt, a
miracle considering that shots were fired.

Now I ask you all, was it worth it?

The potential was here for loss of life, and I ask again, is that
worth it? A 19-year-old girl could potentially go to prison for the
best years of her life, so that four pounds of marijuana, an herb, is
taken out of circulation.

At the end of this raid, did the police congratulate themselves on
serving "justice"? How about if the worst possible scenario had
played out? Had the girl accidentally killed the policeman, and I do
believe that she had no idea what was going on in the house for her
to have shot through that door (what do we think, that this girl was
planning on taking out an entire SWAT team but stopped at the one
shot?), and then the police responded by shooting her, would it still
have been worth it? Had the other policemen decided to be rougher on
the remaining suspects in the house, after seeing two people shot and
killed, and a policeman decided to sit on the young pregnant girl, as
officers do to stop a struggling suspect, and the baby been killed,
would it still have been worth it?

For four pounds of marijuana?

That means that, to stop four pounds of herb from hitting the street,
it is possible to have two people die and a baby killed in the womb
and consider this an acceptable exchange. How far off have our
priorities fallen to allow this?

You people (are) mad to ignore the value of the lives inside the
house and to Rambo through the windows to destroy the evil... herb?
How many dead people are acceptable to destroy four pounds of an herb?

Now, the other side of the coin.

Had the police not approached the house at all, what is the worst
case scenario? The four pounds of marijuana would be distributed,
smoked and disappear altogether. No one gets hurt, no one goes to the
hospital, no one gets shot through the door by a terrified teenage
girl. In fact, no one dies of marijuana unless the police are somehow
involved. It is the nature of the law itself which drives people to
behave violently in regards to this drug; if there were no laws
against it, then there would be no reason for anyone to ever get hurt at all.

Sound familiar? Kind of like alcohol prohibition, more people were
endangered because it was outlawed than were hurt by the drink. By
the way, legal alcohol kills more people (sclerosis of the liver,
drinking while driving, etc...) than illegal marijuana (which can,
admittedly, cause lung cancer.) This defies logic, and when this poor
girl is sent to prison, she'll have at least a decade to think about
how illogical it is that she is in prison because she shot an armed
man outside her door.