FORGET THE GROW-OPS, POLICE THE SCHOOLS

Rollie Woods a member of the Vancouver police wrote to The Province
inviting school officials and the public to pick "which police service they
would like eliminated to provide [additional policing in schools]."

I have a suggestion. End Growbusters. Canada spends more than $340 million,
largely in raiding marijuana grow-ops, to police the marijuana industry.

Police organizations testifying to the Parliamentary Committee on marijuana
legislation last week, advocated for more resources for grow-op busting and
asked for mandatory minimum jail sentences.

More police and mandatory jail sentences require hundreds of millions of
additional dollars, while depleting police resources for serious crime and
Vancouver's escalating property crime.

At the House of Commons committee hearings, only the police organizations
and MADD were in favour of more punishment, more prohibition and more
taxpayer expense in a futile use of our police force.

Marc Emery,

Vancouver Marijuana Party