4 Mounties killed at marijuana site

CBC News ^ | Mar. 3/05 | CBC News

[InvisibleChurch]

i thot drugs are a victimless crime

[ezo4]

Men dieing at the hands of drug dealers.

Why do most violent crimes happen in liberal controlled areas? Take a look at are own cities? Don't they know?

The politicians??? The people that support this crap???

[motzman]

Legalizing pot would just start the anti-smoking campaign all over

When did the anti-smoking campaign stop?

[Heatseeker]

Just finished listening to RCMP press conference via CBC Edmonton.

[Clypp]

It hasn't, but it has progressed beyond its starting point.

[sure_fine]

Why do most violent crimes happen in liberal controlled areas? Take a look at are own cities? Don't they know?

you nailed it

[Chinito]

"Just finished listening to RCMP press conference via CBC Edmonton."

and...???

[Moonman62]

Not bad. Fourteen posts before the first pro drug advertisement.

[ezo4]

diddo...whats that all about

[pageonetoo]

pot is a peaceful drug, just like islam is a peaceful religion...

You seem to have been inflicted with ignorance ...

* Scientists at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have turned their attention from the mysteries of the cosmos to a more esoteric area of research: what happens when you get a spider stoned.

* Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given.

* Spiders on marijuana made a reasonable stab at spinning webs but appeared to lose concentration about half-way through.

* Those on Benzedrine - "speed" - spin their webs "with great gusto, but apparently without much planning leaving large holes", according to New Scientist magazine.

* Caffeine, one of the most common drugs consumed by Britons in soft drinks, tea and coffee, makes spiders incapable of spinning anything better than a few threads strung together at random.

* On chloral hydrat, an ingredient of sleeping pills, spiders "drop off before they even get started".

* The scientists believe their previous work on the goemetry of crystals will help them to devise computer programs that can analyse web-building objectively in order to predict the toxicity of new medicines.

* "It appears that one of the most telling measures of toxicity is a decrease, in comparison with a normal web, of the numbers of completed sides [of a web]; the greater the toxicity, the more sides the spider fails to complete", the scientists say.

* Paul Hillard, spider specialist at the Natural History Museum in London, said researchers first discovered the effects of psychotropic drugs on spiders during experiments at the end of 1960s.

* The researchers fed caffeine to spiders in hope of making them spin webs in the late evening rather than the early dawn.

* The result was eccentric webs rather than earlier spinning, he said.

[Joe Boucher]

Not meaning any disrespect for the fallen officers, but what the hell are they still chasing cannibus growers and smokers for?
Don't they have any real criminals up there?
I mean like muggers and buggerers and rapists and murderers and I mean real criminals?
Oh yeah, that's right, I remember there is a lot of money to be made in the battle against the killer evil weed marijuana.
What with lawyers and drug counseling and reeducation and all the other b.s associated with it.

[sure_fine]

You seem to have been inflicted with ignorance ...

you got a point, or just a hat full of insults?

[pageonetoo]

My point is very simple. there is no indication that marijuana use causes violent behavior. Quite the opposite is true, and there is more than enough evidence to support that statement...

I have more insults I could heap, but will refrain, due to your condition...

[sittnick]

Don't they have any real criminals up there? ... there is a lot of money to be made My wife is from Grande Prairie, Alberta. Once you get northwest of Edmonton, there's Whitecourt and Grande Prairie (300 miles away) and not a heck of a lot else in between. Imagine a more rural version of North Dakota and you will get the picture.

Also, if this guy was willing to take out four RCMP, there is a very good chance that he was doing something more than growing for local consumption. He HAS a criminal record, so yes, he is a REAL criminal. In that part of Alberta, there wasn't a "lot of money to be made" against a one man operation in a remote location. Canada already does a pretty good job of taxing and spending on social programmes. Pot is not a big part of the equation.

[BooBoo1000]

Let's open our borders and let every ding bat into our country for what ever purpose.. Canada's Idea of One World-ism.

[sure_fine]

due to your condition

and I appreciatate your backhanded insulting concerns,,nuff said? I too could come up with more, but I am out of school now and may be a bit behind

[pepperdog]

"My point is very simple. there is no indication that marijuana use causes violent behavior."

Four dead mounties seem to indicate marijuana has caused what most would call violent behavior.

[Joey Silvera]

The province of Alberta is generally very conservative. Most of Western Canada is, except in the larger cities(go figure).

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

What I wonder is, will this be counted as four deaths from Marijuana?

[Clive]

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