SNOOPING ISN'T THE ANSWER

RE: Learn the Signs of a Grow Op

Suggesting that people snoop on neighbors' activities and report what they
find to the police on the off-chance that someone may be growing marijuana
is advocating invading others' privacy in order for police to invade their
civil rights in a way that will only increase the paranoia of
neighborhoods. Such an article encourages the type of nosiness that isn't
going to make anyone cherishing their own privacy feel safer.

The entire idea that we are each other's keepers when another's activities
does us no harm, is a bad idea, and a harmful one to enforce. It causes us
to pass laws against free choice, then turns citizens against each other in
the name of enforcing these unfair laws. Citizens of free states should
resist such intrusions into our personal choices. After all, we are adults,
and the government is supposed to be not our parent, but our servant.

Ray Carlson

California, USA (as received on email)