Im sure this will put a stop to marijuana consumption.

Geez it's hard to get good renters any more! lol
I hope the city can recoup some costs from the property owner with their new bylaws.

Geez it's hard to get good renters any more! lol
I hope the city can recoup some costs from the property owner with their new bylaws.

Well, at least it's $560,000 out of the pockets of gangs. That's always a positive thing.

There is no way one house can grow a $560,000 crop unless they sold it by the joint. Maybe a 40 pound crop would be more realistic... likely half of that. 280 pounds seems far fetched for PR spin.

Some facts about marijuana:

- From 1681 until the early 1800's it was legal to pay your taxes in hemp in the United States.

- Most all of America's founding fathers grew marijuana including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.

- Thomas Jefferson was the Marc Emery of the 18th and early 19th century. Most of the strains grown in America were imported by Jefferson from China.

- Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it was a hemp paper mill producing the paper that most everything in America was written on including the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

- George Washington was the biggest marijuana farmer in the United States and this was the source of his fortune that allowed him to carry on the revolution.

- Marijuana was the largest cash crop in the world (going back over 5000 years in China) until the 20th century... likely still is. Kentucky alone produced 40,000 tons of it in 1850.

- In 1916 a US government report predicted that by 1940 all paper in the world would be made from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down for paper production.

- Quality paints and varnishes were made from natural hemp seed oil until 1937 when the Marijuana Act came into effect... they went from 58,000 tons of hemp seed oil for paints and varnishes to none. Instead a healthy product was replaced with lead based petrochemical paints to satisfy the monopolists in the paint industry (Dupont).

- Henry Ford's Model-T was first built to run on hemp gasoline and the car itself was constructed out of hemp based plastics that had 10 times the strength of steel and never rusted.

- The Randolf Hearst Paper Manufacturing Company (owner of vast timber lands)... as well as natural hemp products would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's petrochemical business products... and it was the corporate monopolists like them that spread the fear to secure their industry monopolies in the late 1930's.

- The deindustrialization of hemp coincided with the Great Depression as the worlds first 'Billion dollar crop' was made illegal.

So it appears the man in question shares some good company... other than stealing from Hydro. However how many tax dollars are lost subsidizing and enabling the gang culture is anyones guess?

Eagleone

That's alot of information. How much time do you spend researching this stuff?

Legalize and tax it. Gets rid of the gang activity in it.

It is far less damaging to our society than booze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When will our politicans wake up to this fact --- over a drink or two????? Or does organized crime have a much stronger lobby than we know?????

i agree legalize it!! maybee then people will see how really stupid politics is

Oh I read an article on it the other day... so just had to find it again.

They don't want to legalize it, just think of the job loss, police, lawyers, court staff, welfare workers, counsellors, the list goes on and on.
It makes sense to legalize it, so lets find a politician in favor of that !!!

never that of that midnight..you're prob right..

I see all of the dope smokers are out in force... What other laws do you pick and choose to obey?

I applaud the RCMP and the assistance of the public in busting grow ops and crack shacks. Hitting organized crime in the pocket book is the way to go. Even though grow ops and crack shacks pop up every day all over our city and surrounding area, shutting them down one by one sends a clear message that these operations are not welcome or tolerated.
Keep up the great work! Thank you!

I'm starting to shift my belief on the legalization of marijuana in favour of legalizing it. There are some valid points that legalizing it may reduce crime and gang activity.

But I have to wonder if it does get legalized, is it possible that gangs (or dealers) will focus their attention on other illegal drugs and try to increase the production of them?

After all... isn't it all about the dealers botton end?

No they have no way of increasing production of the other drugs for the limited market that they have, and the limited supply... its an inelastic market.

Marijuana however is fully elastic. Its a weed that grows in ditches in some parts of the world and probably the most resilient and easy to grow plant on the planet. Production of weed will always meet its demand and as such its the easy low hanging fruit for organized crime to have sustainable cash flow.

If you take weed out of organized crime they lose their two way trade for the other hard drugs and they lose their sustainable cash flow and become susceptible to the whims of boom and bust... more important is that they lose their access point to potential clients. I think it would put them out of business myself... take away weed a from organized crime and they aren't sustainable organizations anymore and I would bet we would see a lot of the harmful drugs dry up as trade no longer has the capital to fund their import and distribution.

i agree eagleone prohibition is what it is and gangs only make money from pot because it is illegal.
almost half of canadians have tried marajuana, and medical marijuana is legal..I just dont see why they keep it criminalized when our courts are sooo overloaded they are letting the bad guys go?
and untill it is legalized gangs will controle the production and reap the benifits....why do we so blindly give them what they need to keep terrorizing our town?
I say take the power back..legalize it

Prostitution of children, crack cocaine, loan sharking, - you gonna legalize all of that too? You would have to - gangs would just ramp up these areas to make up for it.

Prostitution of children, crack cocaine, loan sharking, extortio - you gonna legalize all of that too? You would have to - gangs would just ramp up these areas to make up for it.

yes they would ramp it up but sell that stuff to whom? there is only so much demand for illegal goods. perhaps proceeds from the taxation of marijuana could go to fighting those problems.

Good to see another chink in the gang armour, sure, there are lots of grow-ops, we are told, but here is another large amount of product the criminals won't profit from. Every little bit helps, in my opinion.
metalman.