NEW POT LAW JUST ANOTHER FEDERAL CASH GRAB

While pot smokers across Canada celebrate their apparent victory, they
should stop and look carefully at this new legislation. If it's too good to
be true etc.

Any police officer I've spoken to has agreed that this law is necessary to
avoid clogging the courts up with people that like to smoke pot. Hence the
problem.

The police will tell you that it is a pain in the butt to charge a person
and get them in court for marijuana possession. They will tell you that it
is much easier to simply identify and fine people. In response, we have a
brand new cash cow for our federal bureaucrats to screw up.

It is obvious that very few speeders would ever be caught if the police
were forced into court for every offence; fines work and the authorities do
not have to do anything but learn how to write out a ticket. Some cops I've
spoken to were just itching to "get" people they know smoke pot but were
just too much trouble to prosecute or care about. Until now.

There is a distinct possibility that this law could be abused, the
presumption of guilt is all but gone and the onus falls on the ticketed and
evil weed puffer. Cops no longer have to prove much, just get some evidence
in a plastic bag and scoop $400 for every adult caught, kids get off
lighter, they only have to ask for $200 from their parents when they get
snagged.

This law was not meant to acknowledge or assist otherwise law-abiding pot
smokers; it was designed to get their money easier. In fact, it is the only
feasible way they could tax it.

When the majority of society ignores a law, it should be abolished, not
enhanced to rip us off for more money.