When are you going to forget about the earths plants and get on to the Crack shacks and heavy narcotics. Don't her much about them??

You mean like do real investigation into actually harmful substances?
That would take real police work.

Chemical labs and distributors are able to be more discrete due to the small size of the products, Whereas a grow op is easier to locate due to size, growing period, smell and heat signatures.

The easy road. maybe they should call their drug squad easy company.

loki is right pretty easy to hide cocaine but impossible to hide 10000 plants lol

Well in a strange way busting the grow ops is getting to the "hard drugs." In BC we trade the marijuana for money, guns, and drugs.

Keep up the good work. Seize the land and all items on it. Have an auction.

I am venturing to say, how many plants north of 100mile so far. I would venture to say no less than 50,000 plants so far. That has to put a dent into the supply.

I wonder if the prices have gone up?

I wonder what happens behind the scene, I wonder if someone gets blamed for being busted and get disposed off. somebody has fronted an awful lot of money. this bust got to put a few million dollars out of pocket to some drug lord. I don't think this is taken lightly.

"In BC we trade the marijuana for money, guns, and drugs."

I think they call that commerce, very much like any other commodity that is exchanged for currency or other goods. It is part of the overall economy and it can be measured. Just imagine if this $14 billion a year industry was above board.
"According to Forbes magazine,* marijuana is "Canada's most valuable agricultural product - bigger than wheat, cattle or timber." Bud Inc. gives us an inside look at this thriving homegrown industry. Although the cultivation and selling of marijuana remains illegal in Canada, it is already big business, especially in British Columbia. Law enforcement officials estimate that the annual wholesale value of B.C. marijuana is now $6 billion, about 5% of the province's total economy."
from Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry

In no strange way is this getting to the hard drugs. They are two completely different things handled by different social groups. Just another lie to reinforce the misconceptions of this innocuous substance.

oops, I should have remove my $14 estimate. Don't want the detail oriented to get their panties in twist.

The official estimate of $6 billion IMO is about half of the reality anyway, but let's stick with the official numbers.

The detail oriented wear panties? How do you know this, Loki? Very interesting.
But seriously, I think we all have heard that BC Bud is traded for cocaine by the
the criminal organization who shall remain nameless, but who give motorcyclists a bad name, if that is true then if they have less bud to trade or sell, maybe, just maybe they are buying less coke, so maybe there will be less of that misery available on our streets. As for meth, they can cook that garbage up anywhere, so there would be no affect on the meth trade by reducing the weed availability.
metalman.

BC Bud rules, man.

I know a few pot heads. they smoke it, they get a bit high and thats it. They don't do hard drugs. They just smoke a bit of pot, and they function OK.

I don't touch the stuff nor do drugs. I don't classify these guys as bad guys, just average working Joe's just having a toke or two. They know, they will never get rich with the skills they have, they just want to enjoy life with a few of their buddies. They don't grow the stuff, they buy a baggie once in a while and are enjoying life. Not doing anybody else any harm other than themselves.

I don't think they will outright stamp it out. So the paranoia of all pot heads as being bad people is bunk. Their likely more content with their lives than most people out there living on a narrow road.

So do I condemn all pot growers. Well, not the small guys supplying to his local potheads. No, they may have 20 plants, keeping his head above water,not getting rich and not collecting welfare.
But 1,000 plants. Well, that is not eeking out a living, that's a full blown million dollar business, and tax evasion. 10,000 plants, thats not all for feeding the local market, that is strictly for trafficking abroad. There has to be blood spilled with that kind of money.

Do I have any use for hard drug users. Not much. Hope, they can get out of the trap, is all I can say. Throw them a life line, see if they grab it. But other than that, don't steal off of me.

Meth, well, get hooked on that, its a death sentence. Throw them in the cell, one door is for help, the other door is all the meth you want. Let them decide, stop wasting social services time and money on them.

I get high on Jesus.

Praise the Lord.

He spoke's post sums it up nicely IMHO.

Ditto on He spoke.

Ditto on He spoke.

......and how many more are out there?

Scary part is that anyone could have stumbled across it by mistake. Lots of people wander around out that way fishing and camping, etc. Doubt they take kindly to visitors.

I think He Spoke sums it up good.

I would argue all these busts haven't done a thing to the local market for weed. Its called a weed for a reason. It is impossible to stop. One plant can produce tens of thousands of clones in a single year. Going after pot smokers is basically a form of legalized discrimination for the benefit of organized crime and the police budgets that are wasted fighting a fight that will never be won. I would bet of all the busts so far this year they haven't even touched 1% of the output from this region, and I would bet its the same across the entire province.

At least if it was legal, than growers would pay taxes, and with the new tax revenue
we could fund and organize our government service to deal with the hard drugs that do cause harm to society.... all while undermining the business model of the international organized crime units.

I read recently an article where they were using weed to cure alcoholism. They claimed people with alcoholic problems that were abusive and dangerous while drinking, changed to law abiding mellow members of society that gave up drinking all together once given a supply of weed to smoke as an alternative to alcohol... something about people that abuse drugs will always abuse something and weed was seen to be the safest thing for people of that kind of handicap to use and still be productive law abiding citizens. Apparently the study showed near 100% success rate in reforming former dangerous alcoholics.