Unfortunately, only 20 plants is still enough for the prohibitionists to start freaking out. Why? Total lack of any REAL education about what is going on. If people were actually to look at ALL of the evidence, they would see that legalizing this is a smart thing to do, not the least of the results being that people are no longer going to have to be "put into a corner" as this guy quite obviously felt was done to him (whatever state of mind he was in).

Not that I support him. But if pot was legal, I know at least five people who would, most probably, still be alive.

But the guy growing pot didn't deserve what was happening to HIM, either.

This is another one of the reasons people should fight for legality on this issue. There are many many reasons. I do not like the police where I live (sask) simply because they know I smoke pot and to them this is wrong and I should be punished. I know they're just doing their job, but if they look at the actual evidence (and the pool of that is growing) then they would not prosecute people for an unjust law.

But it is a person who has been driven to the edge that would take a gun and, in his opinion, defend himself and his property. Just because people smoke or grow pot does not mean that they are going to freak and kill you with a gun if you try and stop them.

People have been portraying potheads as laid-back couch potatoes for years. One mentally unstable (for whatever reason) person, and all of the sudden we're all killers. Does this sound like people who actually know what they are talking about?

No, the police did not deserve it. Hell no. But I and about 6 billion other people did not do this, just one person did. Go deal with HIS problems, and leave the potheads alone.

In fact, and most marijuana smokers will agree, that if you were to give the average pothead a gun and a bag of weed, they would spend their time trying to figure out how to make the gun into a pipe.

"I never saw a pot head yet that did not start off on marijuana, and it lead to Heroin, LSD etc"

To this guy, dont be such a moron. Your using backward logic. What you meant to say was that you never saw a heroin addict that hadnt previously smoked pot, because obviously you have not met every canadian that has smoked pot. If you have i say congratulations to you, since more than 25% of the canadian population has done so. And of course the addict has smoked pot before heroin, he also drank alchohol and smoked cigarettes as well. You are simply blaming the marijuana out of convenience. All of these addicts also drank milk before they did drugs, does that make milk the gateway?

Since ive heard about this ive been reading several articles about this incident, and i notice they all say it was a raid on a 'suspected Grow Op'. No mention of any seisures or its street value. Perhaps its too early in the process but i cannot remember the last time a drug bust of any kind made news without the police boasting how much the supposed street value was. Was this really a grow op, or is the media grasping for a way to justify four deaths to the general public.

It seems to me that the only problem with marijuana that has ever existed is its underground trade. Due to it being illegal, there is a great deal of money to be made. This has caused biker gangs and the like to be involved in the trade, which obviously brings crime into it. If it were grown legally and sold like the worlds two other favorite drugs, cigarettes and alchohol, then it would be done by corporations not gangs. And since there will be no need to raid these corporations, no one will be shot unnessicarily.

Posted by they deserve it at March 3, 2005 20:03 Permalink”."
These RCMP deserve every persons respect. If any of you inbreds out there have the audacity to tell me that "if you work in a mine expect to be blown up" then I would beg for your real names. It's easy to say such harsh horrible disgusting things as these when there is no accounting for yourself. I dare you to say something so vulgar to the face of one of their mothers you disgusting piece of sh*t. I bet your parents aren't one iota as proud of you as I am of a total stranger who put his life on the line to stop a known kook in that community. It was not just drugs, it involved weapons and stolen property as well. Your over all nature makes me want to vomit mister hide behind the internet "Posted by: they deserve it at March 3, 2005 20:03 Permalink" The most disgusting thing is that RCMP officers are still going to be out there risking their lives for putrid inbred redneck hillbilly cousin humping banjo picking beer can crushing wife beating cross burning poster children for abortions toothless retards such as yourself!!!

Burning. Issue. Get it?

Seriously though, my brother is a cop. They have a hard enough job to do without this kind of crap. The violent criminals are just that; nothing to do with marijuana.

The cops should be busy locking up murderers (these guys included)and rapists that go through the revolving door, while America's jails are filled with those only guilty of substance abuse. Interesting though, how so many are willing to attribute this violence to something they understand very little about, and are unwilling to see the human/social implications of.