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Subject: Re: Summer's over, time to discuss marijuana legalisation

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Date Posted: 17:34:14 09/13/02 Fri
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: Summer's over, time to discuss marijuana legalisation" on 09:05:38 09/13/02 Fri

">Sorry, are you saying that a substantial number of
>property crimes are attributable to feeding a nicotine
>habit? In the US?? Where cigarettes are cheap,
>cheap, cheap (they're $6 a pack here)??

No what I am saying is that our regs (taxes) have made the 90% of reservation customers into criminals...and yes even those more inclined to steal for a habit will do so even if it is the lowly cigarette, btw we here in NY are paying closer to $7 per pack. Increase the price and or regulation associated with the substance you will have more crime, IMO of course ;)

">Legalising isn't quite what I am talking about.
>Changing the way we deal with drugs in general. FOr
>instance, getting heroin addicts off the streets and
>into maintenance programs."

We have methadone clinics...they now have been pushed further into the suburban community BECAUSE that is where the users are.

"Not putting users in jail
>where they can just feed their habits without getting
>treatment."

But you see THATS where the problem is IMO, its far more productive to teach addiction prevention than to regulate a habit of current users.
>

">Our perspectives are no doubt coloured by our
>experiences. Here pot is a part of organised
>crime--primarily under the jurisdiction of Vietnamese
>gangs and Hells Angels in the Lower Mainland right
>now. The pot that is being produced is the most
>concentrated stuff on the planet. It's increasingly
>being exported to the US, where even bigger profits
>can be had."

I would say our perspectives are very different...any farmer here could plant a crop *and* not be detected, however its even more common to see warehouse farms now...no export/shipping involved. The internet has no doubt added to availability of seed and I even heard an "urban legend" of someone going overseas each year to hand pick his seeds. Its just not that difficult to produce a crop anylonger.

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