Posted on 09/21/2005 7:07:58 PM PDT by Know your rights
>>>Police losing battle over pot, says prof
That's because it's a stupid battle.
Thinking the ship sailed on Pot smoking when the Indians were smoking it, and hasn't come back to port since.
I'd rather legalize pot (with the same restrictions as alcohol) and focus on the stronger stuff. It's not that I smoke it, or want anyone to smoke it, but rather I favor falling back to defensible lines.
Well, if the police are losing the battle over pot, and the solution would be to legalize it, why not legalize crime? After all, isn't that a losing battle? Civilized societies have been fighting crime since man was created.......and we still have crime.
It is not a question of practicality. It is a question of what is right and what is wrong.
What a doofus.
Police are losing the war against pot
The evidence:
Police say the number and size of local marijuana operations they’re discovering is increasing.
Isn't this a lot like "Prison population rises, even while crime rate declines"?
They need to keep it illegal -- not because it's wicked and awful, but because the assinine prohibition is a great recruiting tool for our side, at least the libertarian wing of it.
What better argument for the ineffective, intrusive, and illogical nature of government than a multi-billion dollar, life-wrecking, police-corrupting crusade against a humble weed.
Canada is a French loving drug embracing socialist haven for anything bad these days. I would be shocked to hear they didn't have their police giving it out like candy.
They are THAT stupid up there in my opinion.
Be grateful we are NOT Canada.
What a crying shame. It is a beautiful country.
Pass the dutchie on the left hand side....
Canadians seem to hate Americans almost as much as they hate themselves it seems. They are dying out as a population as well.
I'm sure some religion of peace types are going to breed like rabbits there to help them out.
What does that song mean?
Good point. And since apparently nobody can explain what is wrong about using marijuana which is right about using alcohol or tobacco, we should make all three legal.
At least decriminalize pot now. Sheesh, the money and manpower wasted on marijuana busts.... Use the dough and resources to catch pedophiles instead.
And I don't buy the "gateway drug" nonsense either. Nicotine and caffeine can be considered gateway drugs. So could chocolate.
The gov't has no business telling me or anyone else what drugs we can and cannot take.
Now, be honest - would you rather live in Canada, or in the "inner city" portion of any of America's 25 biggest metro areas?
You can start by comparing the homicide rates...
Are there any foreign countries you do like?
Legalize pot? "FAR OUT, MAN!"
Ping-a-ding.
Trust me on this - it is far and away Canada's largest cash crop business. Ontario has a bunch for sure but the real business is happening in BC. In most cases, to be specific these are run by the Vietnamese. In the interior of BC in some of the old mining towns, every other building now houses a grow operation. Two weeks ago I was in Canmore and as luck would have it, I ended up in the hot tub of the hotel with a young recruit with the RCMP. I knew there was a lot of drugs in BC but when he told me the scope, it blew my mind.
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