“Today was a day of frustration for me. In Montreal useless lazy cops decided today was the day to take medicine away from sick people by raiding a series of cannabis compassion clubs. This after similar raids in Toronto a few weeks ago. I expect Vancouver compassion clubs to be next, but if they do that they better be ready for a fight. We Vancouverites do not take lightly to heavy handed law enforcement abusing sick people who are harming nobody by consuming cannabis.
And then to add some irony into the days news cycle the CBC reported how organized crime is now operating the largest, most sophisticated, hardest to find grow ops ever seen in BC. And no doubt, based on what I have smoked, they are also growing the best weed they ever have. Here’s that news story…
And in case you missed it this story pointed out the blatant futility of the law enforcement effort to stop BC Bud.
For every 1000 Grow Ops
200 get reported to police
Police have the resources to investigate 100
Only 65 proceed with a criminal charge
Only 38 cases are strong enough for the crown to proceed with charges
and 8 end up leading to jail time
It’s a fucking waste of time and money over a harmless plant!
And to piss me off even more the media does a horrible job of reporting the news in this area. It’s reported as if the solution is to have tougher laws against cannabis use and production. And of course nothing could be further from the truth. Of course our unethical cops and useless politicians would like us to believe otherwise.
For fuck sakes are all of our police and politicians retarded? It’s tougher laws that have got us to where we are now. Every step in the direction of tougher laws increases the violence in the marijuana trade, pushes the growers further into the shadows and ultimately results in a less safe society. Jesus Christ, why am I the only one who see’s this pattern?
Thankfully I know I’m not the only one who thinks this way. Every person I engage in conversation about marijuana prohibition has the same opinion as me these days. And I’m not exaggerating. 10 years ago it was harder to find someone who agreed with my point of view. Nowadays people are growing very tired of having our scarce police resources used to keep responsible adults from using cannabis products. Tons of people are now aware of the epic failure of cannabis prohibition, yet our police still close down peaceful, non organized crime associated, compassion clubs. And no doubt they will be back at the tax payers money trough asking for more money to fight the “”scourge”" of marijuana.
And nothing is ever said on the news about how raiding compassion clubs just forces people to go back to paying organized crime for a product that was definitely produced in a more dangerous way than the lab tested and professionally grown cannabis compassion clubs sell to their doctor approved members. Not to mention the indignity that sick people have to go through to source medicine from gangsters.
Isn’t it time to do the right thing and let cannabis users be? We don’t deserve the abuse we are given for using a substance scientifically proven to be safer than our legal drugs – alcohol, tobacco and caffeine.
So to all you cops out there, give us a fucking break and go fight real crime. And to our politicians – stop handing money over to gangsters and let us pay you for our cannabis instead of them.”
