Login / RegisterI'm pretty awesome at multi-tasking but splayin' for the 69 is, in my opinion, a waste of time.
Grow-op photo of the day: Underground bunker in Sorrento
According to police, the 7,000 plants were in various stages of growth.
Salmon Arm RCMP
A lot of pictures of marijuana land in my inbox—and almost all of them come from the RCMP. Detachments around the province love to tout their latest grow-op busts, with unskillfully shot photos of pot plants and bags of cash.
Today's delivery: 7,000 plants found in an underground bunker beneath a hay shed in Sorrento. Salmon Arm RCMP said a 52-year-old man faces charges of production of a controlled substance. The police statement didn't say what they plan to do with the "marihuana" plants, however.
As long as there is enough Demand for it, there will always be someone to Supply it.
And as long as marijuana is the relatively safe recreational drug that it is, there will always be enough Demand.
We need a referendum such as Washington and Colorado did, who both voted to legalize it.
We need to institute a direct democracy that uses the Internet and technology to let every citizen have a vote on every subject up for debate. Perpetual polling where everyone always has a say in how the country works. Not this flawed, old fashioned, overly complicated, system of government we are paying for today.
nowpolling.ca is a great example.
In California, which has a "vote on everything" style "democracy", citizens voted themselves into a massive deficit resulting in huge cuts to infrastructure maintenance and social services. Only recently have they begun to vote to sustain their spending.
I think you put a little too much faith in the benevolence of the individual.