MARIJUANA BUST ONLY HELPS OTHER GROWERS

Re: No charges expected from marijuana seizure (Sept. 1).

More RCMP Balderdash. Guess who is most pleased about this eradication
policy? The 90 to 95 per cent of growers who will never be caught.
Think about that: If the police busted twice as many grows this year
as last year, they would still only get about 20 per cent of them. One
fifth, probably less.

And every time they bust one grow operation - indoor, outdoor, small
or big - all they do is make the ones they don't catch that much more
valuable.

Not only is the illegality of pot the very thing that makes growing it
so lucrative, the police are subsidizing the entire industry by
busting a minority of them.

And don't tell me "the cops don't make the laws!"

The police have been lobbying government for decades to keep the war
on certain drugs going. They lobby constantly and have way too much
influence over our governments at all levels.

They like to tell the public that this is somehow interfering with
organized crime or preventing pot from reaching your kids, but
informed people know better. Every year the police bust more people,
and every year pot becomes more widely available. All over a medicinal
plant that recent science suggests fights cancer!

Is this the Canada you want to live in?

A country where police help gangsters and deprive people of valuable
medicine? Because that is the Canada you live in right now.

Russell Barth

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis