Just figured out why all the busts lately.
It is too cold to hand out speeding tickets, so this make work project will keep them busy and indoors til spring.

Well, its a start. I wonder if they have hit 10% of the total volume yet.

Anyway, its a good start for a new year.

Posted by: Loki on January 25 2010 4:09 PMJust figured out why all the busts lately.
It is too cold to hand out speeding tickets, so this make work project will keep them busy and indoors til spring.


What a moronic comment!!

Thank you to the RCMP

Wonderful job, keep up the great work!!!

Waste of money and resources.

Pot should be legal. Licensed establishment and the government should be making the money, not gangs.

Pot isn't harmful in the way cocaine or heroin is. Pot's less damaging than alcohol.

Time to move on and end prohibition. The only winners are the criminals.

Cannabis was added to the Confidential Restricted List in 1923. Historians usually point to the 1922 publication of Emily Murphy’s The Black Candle as the inspiration for the addition. Murphy was a suffragist and police magistrate who wrote a series of articles in Maclean’s magazine under the pen-name “Janey Canuck,” which formed the basis of her book. She uses numerous anecdotes culled mostly from anti-drug reformers and police to make her arguments, which make strong links between drugs and race and the threat this poses to white women. One chapter is entitled Marahuana – A New Menace, and makes the startling claim that the only ways out of cannabis addiction are insanity, death, or abandonment.

The last sentance, Now that is a moronic statement.

Pot will never be legal in Canada as long as it's illegal in the US. In other words, not in our lifetimes.

Excellent work by our local officers!

It's great to see our new Police Chief really going after organized crime like this! It's organized crime growing 300 to 500 (or more plants), not some local supplying himself and a friend. If you want to reduce the gang violence in our city, this is how you do it. Make it un-profitable for them to stick around.

Keep up the wonderful job!

Kudos on the start of the year for the RCMP however I would prefer my tax dollars to chase down the hard drugs which keep our kids addicts for life like cocaine heroine etc. These are the real money makers for the gangs because of the addiction.The addition craving is constant throughout the high and low --let the pot be legislated as it should and take down the stuff which is really killing society-oh yeah bets that these "growers" see more time than the gun bust guy does or the assault guy or the rapist......any takers

It's not a waste of money and resources. Grow operations like these are sophisticated undertakings that are almost certainly linked to organized crime. The pot being cultivated is most likely being traded for the hard drugs and guns that end up back in our community. Yes, the same drugs that your kids get hooked on and the same guns that are killing people and being used in other criminal activities. It's all linked.

We aren't in the 1960's anymore and these operations are not innocent businesses filling a local need for some recreational pot.

The Police should get the coke and heroine off the streets and away from our children, busting grow ops is a waist on time and money.

Also, my tax dollars would be better spent taking the drunk drivers off the roads as well.

Sure can tell people are out of work in this area!!

Pot is a benign harmless drug that actually does more good than bad I would argue. Large scale grow ops on the other hand are nests for criminal gang activity that are a direct result of a failed war on drugs that goes for the low hanging fruit and creates the markets for organized crime.

I would suggest that if we legalized the growing of pot plants under the restriction that they could not use grid electricity, and could only use BC based renewable energy technology and sources like wind, solar, hydrogen, ect... then I would suggest BC would generate billions in new goverment revenue from a legal industry with global markets, as an enabler industry that would enable BC to become a global leader in renewable energy technology.

I think it would be win-win eleiminating organized crime for a legal industry and creating oportunities for green energy technology in BC.

"A benign harmless drug that actually does more good than bad,"

Not from what I've seen. This isn't the same stuff as in the 60's and 70's. There are dealers lacing the stuff with other wonderful drugs as well.

Just nail them for Theft of Hydro and Income Tax Evasion , should be an easy Case to win in Court for the Crown. Make pay

""A benign harmless drug that actually does more good than bad,"

Not from what I've seen. This isn't the same stuff as in the 60's and 70's. There are dealers lacing the stuff with other wonderful drugs as well. "

Not to mention that the levels of THC are much higher in today's stuff compared to the old days. This isn't the same stuff your parents smoked.

"Not from what I've seen. This isn't the same stuff as in the 60's and 70's. There are dealers lacing the stuff with other wonderful drugs as well."

Spoken from the darkness?
Ohh, it has gone from 6% d9-thc to almost 20%. Funny thing, if one ingests pure d9-thc, one get no euphoria. It is the sum of the components that produce the effect, not a single component.

Any dealer dumb enough to waste good money to "lace" his product will not be around long. His body may or may not be found. Pot smokers smoke pot, if they want something else, they get it themselves. It is the more processed recreational drugs that are more likely to be "laced" with a variety of substances for a variety of reasons. It could be as benign as glucose to buff up the volume to special K to hide the inferior quality.

Each bust that gets announced, there are numerous people posting commendations for the great work. What great work. They are going after the easy targets. I say easy target because pot is so prevalent in Canada, they can't help but fall over it. AS of 2007. 30% of Canadians admitted to smoking pot. I am sure gus or eagle could extrapolate this to a much larger percentage because of the nature of the survey and the likelihood of admission.

Now if they were to go after the cocaine and heroin, then I would say kudos. Busting someone for growing organic vegetable matter is quite lame.

In the Bill C-38.8 - Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, there are eight (8) Categories of controlled substances. Four (4) of them are about pot. Huh?
Barbiturates, heroin, amphetamines, and the precursors are each grouped under one schedule each. Why is pot such a threat that it has more restriction than heroin or cocaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_legalization_in_Canada

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

There are basically two (2) reasons pot is illegal and neither has to do with health or public safety.

1. Ralph Randall Hearst, lumber and PAPER baron in the early 20th century felt his wealth was threaten by the superior fiber from hemp, so he bought himself a few high level politicians and had them enact the Marijuana Tax act of 1911. This created an unpayable tax so made hemp illegal at the stroke of a pen. This even though it was in quite common usage. This law came back to bite the USA during WWII when it was repealed so they could get hemp to make rope for the war effort.

2. Racism and controlling the common man. It is because consumption was associated with Mexicans, Latinos, and blacks,(please excuse if these terms are not PC), and the Americans are notoriously racist, it was easy to fool the American middle class into believing those assumptions and outright lies.

This is a completely contrived and erroneous public safety measure. Fear not, There is a profit in though. With the war on drugs, the enforcement agencies have had significant budget increases. What's good for the goose, organized crime has also increased their budgets for production, avoiding detection, and distribution. It has made organized crime, well, organized. They are much more business like than some legal businesses.

In 2007, pot production in Canada was over $7 billion dollars, beef only $5 billion. I do not have other commodity figures to compare, Gus? So now tell me that there is no economic benefit taking 7 billion dollars out of the underground market and making it legitimate.

I love reading pot smoker's rationalizations for their (illegal) hobbies.

So, you agree with an antiquated legislation borne of racism, misogyny, tyranny, greed and avarice and has nothing to do with public safety or positive economic actions?

What I said was that this law should be stricken from the books.

It is our duty as citizens to ensure that the laws under which we live are fair and just. "We" are no longer the gullible sheeple of the past. We are more cognizant of what is right. Just becasue there is a law on the books, does not mean we should blindly accept it.

Shall we compare the illegal with the legal intoxicants?

When one consumes herb, it is one (1) or maybe two (2) cost about $10, most often in one's own home. The user then relaxes, day dreams, maybe has a nap, there may even be a cuddle in there. No proven detrimental effects. No hangover, no cancer, nothing but a nice rest. No proven addiction.

Legal, cigarettes:
Proven to cause cancer, emphysema, heart disease, et el. The only product legal or illegal that when consumed as intended, causes harm to the user and to bystanders. It stinks up the room or the car or your clothes. More addictive than heroin. I see underage smokers, they cannot go into a store to buy them, so someone is bootlegging (illegal) for them.

Legal, alcohol:
proven to be addictive, proven to cause harm to the user with a host of diseases. To get intoxicated costs significantly more, about $25. One goes out to a social event so it is in public, users can become aggressive, disruptive, extremely uncoordinated, and a great many drive home (illegal) after consuming alcohol. Once home, the domestic violence (illegal) starts. User are not very functional the following day due to hangover.

Would you rather have a bunch of legal drunks or legal stinky cigarettes or an aromatic natural relaxant?

Man made alcohol, man made cigarettes (additives to burn and to burn evenly), nature (god?) made cannabis.

Loki and mr.you should watch the program on TV,cant remember the full title,but in the title is the question"Are we winning the war on drugs"
look into it,but hemp cannibis,mariguana and all other forms of the plant were made illigal after the invention of the nilon rope. the only way for this lobbies to make hemp(rope)illegal wasto brain wash the U.S govn t to beleive that it was harmfull,and all the other BS that goes with it.they even said,at one point,that your kids on pot will take to killing people.
when PM jean c said he would leglize it the US DEA step in and told him if he did that the US would impose trade sanction on Canada.As for being addictive,I quit smoking tobbaco 3years ago after 25 years of smoking,but after twenty years of pot,still puffin.

Oh ya and Loki its 7 billion in BC alone.

thanks for the supportive comment. I may have watched that show, or it could have been the union, reefer madness, or another that I have watched.

Sorry, but you are incorrect on the account of nylon, the opium law was created in 1911, nylon 23 years later.
The invention of nylon at E.I. duPont de Nemours, Inc. in 1934 began the explosion of completely synthetic materials that imitate natural materials into the fabric market

If it is 7 blln in BC alone, holy smoke batman, that is even more income for organized crime that could be a legal commodity.

Of course we have been stuck on the intoxicating euphoria of this product. What we need to be doing is arguing the merits of cannabis as a fiber source as well. It is superior to wood cellulose, it is cheaper to produce and process, and it is annually renewable.

we will have too get together,blast one and have a good conversation cause there are way too many uses for the dope as well as the hemp,sorry for my inability to spell and stucture sentences lol

On my other posts im a moron i guess do to my spelling and stuff lol

It does not matter how good or bad this stuff is, the Point is right now it is illegal , until the Law changes you pay for it, you may even go to Jail and Visit your Friends there!

Betcha rookie Mounties are made to watch that old movie "Reefer Madness", and before they watch it they are told it is not a comedy. Betcha.