tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post5085836906559032776..comments2024-03-29T04:56:02.252-07:00Comments on Paying attention: With B.C.'s 20,000 grow ops, the pot war is lostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-60684840038825915452010-10-17T09:12:41.084-07:002010-10-17T09:12:41.084-07:00That's much too logical of an argument for the...That's much too logical of an argument for the marijuana prohibitionists.<br /><br />Let everyone else do what they want with pot. In BC we should legalize it, regulate it, tax it and benefit from it. End of story....<br /><br />I don't smoke it either anymore. Don't like that "high-test" stuff. I used to love good ole BC homegrown. Might even go back to it if someone started growing it, or it was legal to grow my own.cherylbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-53684725633503219712010-10-16T11:35:25.870-07:002010-10-16T11:35:25.870-07:00Rode to and from work yesterday.....
East to West...Rode to and from work yesterday.....<br /><br />East to West and back again route in the teens took me through the leafiest of leafy City of Vancouver neighborhoods.<br /><br />On the way West in the morning went by a very nice house on a quiet street with four police cars out front, one of which was unmarked....Lots of officers standing around on front lawn, doors closed, heavy curtains on windows drawn tight...<br /><br />On way East in evening twelve hours later there were still two patrol cars out front, door and windows now wide open....police bringing big, bulky items out.<br /><br />Hmmmm.....<br /><br />Wonder what was going on in that nice, respectable Shaughnessy mansion the last few months, if not years?<br /><br />Mr. Willcocks is right.<br /><br />The war is over. <br /><br />It is time to sign the peace treaty and change the laws so that we can move on, minimize the damage, and remove the massive profit motive.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-87805683891738349062010-10-16T07:21:20.525-07:002010-10-16T07:21:20.525-07:00Unfortunately it is the rationale of many individu...Unfortunately it is the rationale of many individuals that by uttering complete and silly nonsense, the substance of which is contrary both to reason and to research, the status quo will be maintained. <br />The reality is that no one on the following list of names would qualify for "politically disengaged zombies shambling around looking for snacks": Carl Sagan; Howard Stern; John Lennon; Pierre Burton; Walt Disney; Winston Churchill; Art Garfunkel; Bill Clinton; Barack Obama; Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York...“You bet I did. And I enjoyed it!”); Count Bassie; etc.;etc to the tune of over 40% of the population of North America having at least trie it, and at 20 million Americans who admit to having toked up within the last month. Here's a link to a recent study, as opposed to an ideology-based opinion piece. <br /><br />http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n541/a11.html <br /><br />Let's get real.<br /><br />Raymond GrahamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-88216992897487563622010-10-16T07:09:37.266-07:002010-10-16T07:09:37.266-07:00Make it legal and regulated, tax the heck out of i...Make it legal and regulated, tax the heck out of its use and move on. Way to much of our police time is spent on something just about anyone can grow. The governments screwed up big time when they prohibited liquor as people still drank lots, the crooks made money and the government lost revenue. Canada grown the stuff in some mine in Manitoba at great expense, to sell for medical use, while they could be doing the same thing in assorted federal on ground establishments. They are presently flogging a dead horse. Heck if one needs the stuff for medical reasons, two doctors can write prescriptions for its use. They chose not to use the poor grade government stuff but shop around No I don't use the stuff.DPLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-40740028084739605482010-10-15T16:05:10.386-07:002010-10-15T16:05:10.386-07:00I refer to my comment on your earlier pot-related ...I refer to my comment on your earlier pot-related post. <br /><br />Decriminalizing an act because the laws surrounding it are hard or expensive to enforce does not make the act, or the activity surrounding the act, inherently less harmful to people or the community they live in - or another community: marijuana will still be illegal in the USA, and therefore still fantastically profitable to produce and smuggle into that country. (I also note that California's Proposition 19 is all about domestic possession, sale and production: it maintains the existing laws against transporting it across state or national borders.)<br /><br />Again, I don't think legalization will change much. Electricity will still be stolen (as another commenter pointed out last time, why not just keep on stealing the electricity, whether you are growing pot or tomatoes in your secret greenhouse), gangs will still be struggling with each other to control the trade (with civilians caught in the crossfire), the police will still be running around searching for grow-ops (except now they will be unlicensed ones, not illegal) possibly without making much more of a dent in the industry than they now do.<br /><br />what will change? We'll probably have a few more slow, hungry and stupid people around. I suppose if you're comfortable with the idea of your government selling you harmful and addictive substances, why not go all the way. <br /><br />And, when you think about it, this is actually a fabulous method of social control for government to get into. Yes, pot smokers don't make a fraction of the trouble drinkers do, but they don't get up to much of anything but shambling around looking for snacks and more pot. Ideal if you want your population to be quiescent, socially and politically disengaged, law-abiding (since we've abolished that law) zombies. Damn, why didn't They think of that before?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com