Pubdate: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 Source: Bugle-Observer (CN NK) Copyright: 2009 CanadaEast Interactive, Brunswick News Inc. Contact: http://bugleobserver.canadaeast.com/onsite.php?page=contact Website: http://bugleobserver.canadaeast.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4733 Author: Russell Barth BUSY BUSTING DRUG DEALERS Dear Editor, Every time the police tear out one grow, they make the 90 to 95 per cent of grows they will never catch all that much more valuable. In this way, they are subsidizing the dealers they don't catch. They know this, too, because all science and history on the subject supports this. It leads me to wonder just which side of the law these guys are really on. If the police really cared about reducing crime and drug use and protecting public safety, they would lobby for legalized regulation. But instead, they lobby for more cops, more powers, more jails, longer sentences, and reduced civil rights and liberties for the general population. They are keen to tell the public that only more prohibition will solve the problems caused by prohibition. I think it is pretty clear who's side they are on - their own! Russell Barth federally licensed medical marijuana user, Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis, www.paidoc.org - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin