Caution: Marijuana may not be lesser evil

mabudon

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Just a correction (took me a while, must be all the dead brain cells) but that contest in the US was for a Nintendo Wii I believe, around 300 bucks worth of game system, which makes the story that much more sad...

And a good time to post that article, DB, it's pure madness- in my area, the police budget is having problems as the force really wants to make a more robust "grow op bustin" force- every time a single plant turns up, the local news intones it in grave notes, alwasy trying to make it sound like danger has been averted- this last summer, some 60-ish year old couple were "busted" for a "grow operation" which amounted to SIX F-ING PLANTS in their GARDEN mixed amongst the tomatoes... glad grandma and grandma are behind bars where they belong, what would have happened if they'd harvested a few ounces of totally organic personal weed and maybe even ended up smoking it with their 60 year old friends???

Madness, a HUGE waste of money, but at least there's folks out there scared enough of their own f-ing shadows to keep on championing the idiotic cause :D
 

Tonington

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How much does it cost to incarcerate one prisoner? I've heard that in Canada it's around $87000 all things considered. This article says around $1Billion for 44440 prisoners, that's only $22,500 per prisoner. Do you suppose they were leaving some costs out of it, or maybe their prison system is much less cushy than ours?
 

hermanntrude

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probably depends which prison you're in.

the point though is that imprisoning people for growing a plant seems rediculous. Although i suppose you'd have to be worried if your next door neighbour grew rows and rows of deadly nightshade
 

Tonington

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I agree that is ridiculous. How can pot use be classed as deviant when close to 50% of the population is using it, or has used it.