Re: Should personal ammounts of Marijuanna be decriminalized?

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From: Mark
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00

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Glenn Olson <kaos@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:42:25 -0700, "Mark"
> <mark1w@N.O.S.P.A.M.oanet.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Your also forgetting that most of the money is spent going after the
> >> > dealers, not the users.
> >>
> >> From what I understand, it's about equal in Canada. In the US, the vast
> >> majority of the money goes to pursuing the users.
> >
> >Perhaps that's because the US actually puts dealers in jail.  Here we
just
> >thank them
> >for bringing more money into the economy.
>
> Waitaminute...
>
> We spend lots of money going after the dealers, just so we can thank
> them for bringing money into the economy?

Sure we spend lots of money going after the dealers, at least the police
force does.  And they would like to see them stay in jail.  The judges
on the other hand are a different story.  Cultivation in BC typically gets
a $3000 fine.  In the meantime BC bud is traded pound for poun with
cocaine in New York, which is brought back to Canada.

>
> Meanwhile, the US spends their money going after the users and somehow
> manages to jail the dealers?

Who said that?

>
> I don't suppose you'd like to explain that...
>

Markw

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From: "Mark" <mark1w@N.O.S.P.A.M.oanet.com>
Subject: Re: Should personal ammounts of Marijuanna be decriminalized?
Date: 2000/04/10
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