News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: PUB LTE: Legalizing Marijuana Is The Answer To Growing Number of Grow Ops |
| Title: | CN BC: PUB LTE: Legalizing Marijuana Is The Answer To Growing Number of Grow Ops |
| Published On: | 2004-03-10 |
| Source: | Coquitlam Now, The (CN BC) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-18 18:57:46 |
LEGALIZING MARIJUANA IS THE ANSWER TO GROWING NUMBER OF GROW OPS
Re: "Plateau grow-op forum draws 300 concerned residents," Saturday, March 6.
When you stop arresting responsible adults for possessing and cultivating
cannabis for their personal use, you won't have to worry about "dangerous"
grow ops.
How many more years do we have to suffer before we realize that
criminalizing nature is absurd and counterproductive? Why do we keep
kidding ourselves into believing that anything but legalizing cannabis will
stop grow ops and the gangs that run them?
You want to decriminalize small quantities of cannabis and increase growing
penalties? This is absurd.
Where do you think the small quantities of cannabis will come from, Santa
Claus?
I live in the most incarcerated state in the U.S. We have some of the
harshest sentences for cultivation and trafficking and that has done
nothing to stop it.
How about ending prohibition? How about allowing responsible adults to
decide for themselves what they put in to their bodies as long as they harm
no others?
That's too easy, eh?
That wouldn't allow for the budget increases and job security that certain
government agencies and law enforcement are after - all at the expense of
taxpayers and society as a whole.
Let's just go another 70 years and see how the drug war is doing then. If
you're wondering what 70 years can do for the drug war, just look at this
headline from 1938: "16 indicted here in marijuana ring," New York Times,
April 30, 1938.
The story says a federal grand jury, delivering what Lamar Hardy, United
States attorney, described as the severest blow ever dealt to traffickers
in marijuana, "yesterday indicted 16 alleged members of a marijuana
producing and distributing ring that until recently operated in Minnesota,
Iowa, Chicago and New York City."
Hmmm. The severest blow ever to marijuana trafficking and here we are today
still wondering how to stop the evil weed.
Can we really afford to be throwing our tax dollars down the toilet for
another 70 years?
Prohibition: It's worse than we all remember.
Scott Russ
Baton Rouge, La.
Re: "Plateau grow-op forum draws 300 concerned residents," Saturday, March 6.
When you stop arresting responsible adults for possessing and cultivating
cannabis for their personal use, you won't have to worry about "dangerous"
grow ops.
How many more years do we have to suffer before we realize that
criminalizing nature is absurd and counterproductive? Why do we keep
kidding ourselves into believing that anything but legalizing cannabis will
stop grow ops and the gangs that run them?
You want to decriminalize small quantities of cannabis and increase growing
penalties? This is absurd.
Where do you think the small quantities of cannabis will come from, Santa
Claus?
I live in the most incarcerated state in the U.S. We have some of the
harshest sentences for cultivation and trafficking and that has done
nothing to stop it.
How about ending prohibition? How about allowing responsible adults to
decide for themselves what they put in to their bodies as long as they harm
no others?
That's too easy, eh?
That wouldn't allow for the budget increases and job security that certain
government agencies and law enforcement are after - all at the expense of
taxpayers and society as a whole.
Let's just go another 70 years and see how the drug war is doing then. If
you're wondering what 70 years can do for the drug war, just look at this
headline from 1938: "16 indicted here in marijuana ring," New York Times,
April 30, 1938.
The story says a federal grand jury, delivering what Lamar Hardy, United
States attorney, described as the severest blow ever dealt to traffickers
in marijuana, "yesterday indicted 16 alleged members of a marijuana
producing and distributing ring that until recently operated in Minnesota,
Iowa, Chicago and New York City."
Hmmm. The severest blow ever to marijuana trafficking and here we are today
still wondering how to stop the evil weed.
Can we really afford to be throwing our tax dollars down the toilet for
another 70 years?
Prohibition: It's worse than we all remember.
Scott Russ
Baton Rouge, La.
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