COULDN'T POLICE TIME BE BETTER SPENT ON MISSING CHILDREN?

Re: Recent marijuana grow-op busts

The people happiest about these marijuana grow-op busts are the 90-95
per cent of growers who will never be caught. Think about that: If
the police busted twice as many grow-ops every year, they would still
only get about 20 per cent of them. A fifth - or probably even less than that.

And every time they bust one grow-op - 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 disrupting
organized crime or preventing pot from reaching their kids, but every
year they bust more and more people, and every year pot becomes even
more widely available - all over a medicinal plant that recent
science suggests actually fights cancer!:

(See www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071226/pot-slows-cancer-in-test-tube
or http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july132009/cbd_2_sc_7-13-09.php )

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 Ottawa, Ont. Federally licensed medical marijuana user
Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis www.paidoc.org