Pubdate: Sun, 16 Nov 2008
Source: Province, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2008 Canwest Publishing Inc.
Contact: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/letters.html
Website: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476
Author: Russell Barth
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n1025.a10.html

VICTORY FOR ORGANIZED CRIME

If the courts take away Judy Ann Craig's home and this law sticks, the
results will be terrible.

These property seizure laws are aimed directly at the mom 'n' pop home
growers who grow for themselves or for a handful of sick people they
know.

These small-time growers provide direct market competition to the
hydro-stealing gang growers, and should be applauded, not persecuted.

These laws have absolutely no deterrence for the big-time growers who
simply factor the loss of the property into the overall cost of the
growing operation.

With the mom 'n' pop growers scared off by the threat of having
everything they own taken away, the gang growers will have even less
competition.

This is just one more BS prohibitionist law that hurts the little guy
and further subsidizes organized crime.

Russell Barth

Nepean, Ont.
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