GROW-OP BUSTS ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE

"The positive thing is they got caught." Not really. Every time the
police tear out one grow op, they make the 90-95 per cent of grows
they don;t catch all that much more valuable. In this way, every grow
bust is actually a gangster subsidy. Police know that. They also get
to mislead the media an the public into thinking that their busting
is helping things, when, in actual fact, their actions are wildly
counterproductive.

But police don't want the "War On Drugs" to ever end because it gives
them all the leverage they need to harass the young, the poor and
people with non-regulation hairstyles. It makes their job relevant
and never ending. Prohibition is a growth industry --as big a cash
cow for police and lawyers and jailers as it is for gangsters. They
are two sides of the same coin.

Russell Barth

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