BIG POT BUST

Re: Huge pot bust on Old Petersen Rd.

The people happiest about this bust are the 90-95 per cent of growers
who will never be caught.

Think about that: If the police busted twice as many grows every year,
they would still only get about 20 per cent of them. 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 while kids and women are still missing, and child porn runs
rampant, the cops are wasting a lot of time and money on this
outrageously counter-productive policy.

They like to tell the public that this is somehow preventing pot from
reaching their kids, but every year they bust more and more people,
and every year pot becomes more widely available.

This is all over a medicinal plant that recent science suggests
actually helps healthy cells resist cancer invasion (
www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071226/pot-slows-cancer-in-test-tube ).

Is this the Canada you want to live in? A country where cops help
gangsters and deprive people of valuable medicine? Because that is the
Canada you live in right now!

Russell Barth, Nepean, Ontario

federally licensed medical marijuana user

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis (www.paidoc.org)