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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
I don't believe I've ever seen a page of users on CP defend laws against drug dealers before. This is a new low.
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No one is defending drug dealers. What most people recognize is that you can't put this war on such a readily available and wanted product like pot and expect things to change. The new low is the Harper government giving harsher penalties for growing 6 plants than someone who molests a 3 year old kid.
That's the problem with a law like this. The only people that benefit from this law are the drug dealers and growers. The government will spend more money chasing its tail, they will continue to put people in jail that don't need to be there (and most cases come out worse than when they went in) and waste resources that could actually help people. Like treating and preventing use of harder drugs that actually bring down society with crime.
Not to mention laws like this are the reason there are drug dealers. If it was legal, taxed and controlled then people wouldn't be forced to buy from drug dealers. The government continues to write organized crime a blank cheque.