Huge Drug Bust in Calgary Resulting in 190 Charges

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Bent Wookie

Detective puckluck and the like haven't really presented any solutions and are merely critical of the weights seized by police.

A lot of us do have an idea for a solution. Stop the war on drugs because it's ####ing ridiculous and a complete waste of resources.

[Nage Waza]

Originally Posted by rubecube

A lot of us do have an idea for a solution. Stop the war on drugs because it's ####ing ridiculous and a complete waste of resources.

Oh wait, is this the argument? Should city police start creating new laws? I have some extreme views on drugs (legalize all of it), but think the police must enforce the laws that exist, including drug enforcement. It sucks, but the rules as they are still have people on the street peddling drugs which brings with it assorted other problems - I am pretty sure those that live and work in the area are thankful that the police took some of these people away, even for a short time.

Don't like the rules? Write, call, talk to your MP.

[jayswin]

Nm

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Nage Waza

Oh wait, is this the argument? Should city police start creating new laws? I have some extreme views on drugs (legalize all of it), but think the police must enforce the laws that exist, including drug enforcement. It sucks, but the rules as they are still have people on the street peddling drugs which brings with it assorted other problems - I am pretty sure those that live and work in the area are thankful that the police took some of these people away, even for a short time.

Don't like the rules? Write, call, talk to your MP.

I think why a lot of people are mocking this bust is it because it's symbolic of just how fruitless the war on drugs is.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by Bent Wookie

Wait... you means guys like Flash and Puckluck don't know everything about everything? They sure seem like they do and they present their opinions as significantly more than an uneducated idea.

Detective puckluck and the like haven't really presented any solutions and are merely critical of the weights seized by police. To me, the amount has no bearing on the operation. 190 charges seem to justify the operation.

Trust me, as a 10 year member of this board, the gene pool has become significantly shallow.

I love how there are 80 posts in this thread, and multiple posters, and the scheme of the thread is that everyone thinks this was a ridiculous bust and you call out 2 posters.

[Azure]

Certainly isn't the fault of the police force that they have to fight the war on drugs.

But just for a minute imagine if Alberta legalized just marijuana. Ignoring the issues with the federal government the potential revenues from taxing it and all the jobs created by the legal growers would be massive. It would compete directly with the illegal growers in BC.

Such a move would be massive.

And if you doubt the impact on the economy, go read of how legalizing marijuana has impacted the Colorado economy. It even impacts areas of the economy that nobody expected. Like container sales to marijuana growers.

One can dream right? :/

EDIT: And we're not even talking about the impact on the public side of things by not having to spend so much time and resources on throwing marijuana users in jail.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Azure

Certainly isn't the fault of the police force that they have to fight the war on drugs.

But just for a minute imagine if Alberta legalized just marijuana. Ignoring the issues with the federal government the potential revenues from taxing it and all the jobs created by the legal growers would be massive. It would compete directly with the illegal growers in BC.

Such a move would be massive.

And if you doubt the impact on the economy, go read of how legalizing marijuana has impacted the Colorado economy. It even impacts areas of the economy that nobody expected. Like container sales to marijuana growers.

One can dream right? :/

EDIT: And we're not even talking about the impact on the public side of things by not having to spend so much time and resources on throwing marijuana users in jail.

Nah, we should just live in the past and keep putting millions in resources towards operations like this.

Get those guys off the streets!

And then replaced with other guys within days!

And then the guys they arrested stay in the crime life because of jail!

Then when they get out they go back to what they were doing before, and we paid millions for their trials and encarceration!

And conveniently there's always roughly the same amount of drug trade in our city, despite the millions of resources poured into this war!

It's a win win for every one. How can you guys not support this!

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

I love how there are 80 posts in this thread, and multiple posters, and the scheme of the thread is that everyone thinks this was a ridiculous bust and you call out 2 posters.

Says something about your reputation on here I'd guess.....