Pubdate: Wed, 01 Sep 2004
Source: Coquitlam Now, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2004Lower Mainland Publishing Group, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.thenownews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1340
Author: Russell Barth
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

ONLY SENSIBLE THING IS TO LEGALIZE POT

Wonderful! More police time and money wasted on a losing battle. I wonder 
what the police are smoking to make them think they will ever make a dent 
in the pot-growing industry.

The only sensible thing to do at this point is legalize and regulate 
marijuana growing, so it will be done in the industrial areas of town and 
not in people's homes.

Recent statistics say there could be as many as 50,000 marijuana grow ops 
in Canada. If police were to bust five every single day, it would take more 
than 27 years to get them all. And for every person that they bust, a dozen 
more are waiting to take their place.

Police, judges and prosecutors have to face reality. The drug war is over, 
and they lost.

Russell Barth Via e-mail
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