Pubdate: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 Source: Intelligencer, The (CN ON) Copyright: 2008, Osprey Media Group Inc. Contact: http://www.intelligencer.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2332 Author: Russell Barth POT BUSTS BOOST DEALERS' PROFITS Re: $5.3-million drug bust The people happiest about this bust are the 90-95 per cent of growers who will never get caught. Nothing keeps the price of pot high like big busts! In fact, it is the police and government's prohibition on pot that makes growing pot so lucrative in the first place, and by tearing out 1,000 or 10,000 plants, the police are actually subsidizing these guys' rivals. It also gives the police all the justification they need to demand more troops and more money every year. They know perfectly well that a bust -- even one this size -- will have little-to-no effect on the availability of pot to the general public, but it will keep the price, and profits, good and high. Russell Barth Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana User Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin