POT SENTENCES DESIGNED TO INCREASE CRIME

Re: Senators play games with bill,Nugget, Oct. 9

The Tory policy of imposing mandatory minimum jail sentences for
growing pot is designed specifically to increase crime.

The lowest hanging fruit is the easiest to pick, so the cops will be
busting the dorm-closet and backyard cottage industry growers first.
This will leave far more business for the heavily financed and armed
gang growers. That will cause increased violence, gunplay, and gang
profits.

Future governments will use this inevitable increase in crime to
justify even more draconian laws, increased police funding, and the
building of new multi-billion-dollar jails.

The question should not be why is the Senate slowing this bill down?"
The real question is what kind of monster would vote for this
outrageously counterproductive bill in the first place?"

Russell Barth Federally licensed medical marijuana user Nepean, Ont.