PROHIBITION CONTINUES TO BE GROWTH INDUSTRY

To The Editor,

Re: RCMP 'Green Team' cracks down on grow ops, March 19.

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 and the public into
thinking the busts are 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
Nepean, Ontario