Pubdate: Thu, 21 May 2009
Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
Copyright: 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc.
Contact: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/letters.html
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274
Author: Russell Barth

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Re: "Raids uncover 8 grow-ops, 13 arrests in Kanesatake," Gazette, May 20).
Guess who is happiest about these busts?: Other dealers.

The only thing the police accomplished with these busts is to make the
90-95 per cent of growers and dealers they will never catch all that
much wealthier. The cops are not making a dent in the drug industry -
they aren't even scuffing the paint.

There is no better way to subsidize a gangster than to lock up more of
his competitors for longer periods, and every time the police destroy
a pound of weed, they help out the guys that are not getting caught.

Russell Barth

Ottawa 
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