At least four RCMP officers are not responding to their radios after conducting a raid on an alleged marijuana grow operation in northwestern Alberta, says Alberta Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko.
“They don’t know whether that’s a malfunction of the equipment or what yet, but it’s a very serious situation,” said Cenaiko.
He added that gunfire was continuing.
And our marijuana decriminalizing legislators would have us believe that the safety of the public depends on arresting hotel owners for smoking violations, unhelmeted bicycle riders and dog owners.
Keep them in your prayers.
Update – 4:30pm reports are that all four are confirmed dead. Military is reported to have been called in.
update 2
CBC report
Background:
“The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police estimates that the number of illegal grow-ops in this province has increased 250 per cent. Revenue could hit $12.7 billion.”
Realty Times – How can you tell if there’s a grow-op house in your neighbourhood.
More details are emerging – this was not a raid, per se, but the intentional killing of four junior officers who had been posted to guard the property until evidence gathering could be completed in the morning. The owner returned to the scene to, for all intents and purposes, execute them.
More on James Roszko from Cosh.
Rob, it was banned around the same time in the US as well. Prior to that, it was a perfectly legal crop.
Soo.. now where do you want to go?
Rob, here’s an interesting link to peruse re marijuana in the US:
http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_5.shtml
Hey Ian,
How about here for a start:
http://www.personalhealthzone.com/marijuanasideeffects.html
So with a move to a healthier society, you want us all to legalize something that has far worse outcomes then tobacco or is more unhealthy then alchohol when used in moderate consumption?
Then let me guess, were going to tax the shit out of it to offset health care costs?
Besides all that, you missed the point of what making it legal does to society as a whole verses keeping it discrete.
Ian, one more thing.
Some of the latest weed found around here has been laced with meth, which is highly additive. How do you propose to control that issue, or is it a legalize it at all costs situation.
And know after warching Global Sunday, I’m totally confused at the message the liberals are sending, witch is normal.
Mclellan is not advocating legalization at all, only decriminalization, which means it will be moved to a ticketed offense.
Do these guys actually know what day it is?
http://www.personalhealthzone.com/marijuanasideeffects.html
Interesting that no studies are actually cited – just their claims about studies. Did they take the studies out of context? How did they come up with a median use of “29?” Does that mean some of those in the study smoked 15 in one day, while the rest of the month, just one per day?
There are many studies that can be cited that refute what this website claims.
What is moderate use?
With respect to meth being found in some joints.. well, that has more to do with the fact that one can’t buy marijuana from a reputable source, right? I guess like anything else, including possible glass fragments in prepared food that sometimes happens in food purchased from a grocery store, bad things happen.
Where do you want to draw the line?
Rob, for an article which actually cites studies it refers to, please read this:
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/marijuan.htm
“Keeping it Discrete” should be the natural “cool” response by liberals to the call of marijuana legalization
Didn’t Anne McLielan also say that she knew Kyoto wouldn’t work but it “sends the right optics”
“Send the right optics”!!!!… now how do you shout that from the roof tops ,… come on, as if!!!
It would be so much easier if we could work out some sort of cool hip buzzword to stucco over our hypocritical cake eating and having.
I move “Keeping it Discrete ” is the new buzzword thingy!
However, you still can’t cross the border or become a law enforcement officer if in your past you were’nt “keeping it discrete”.
Or
We could legalize it and trust the citizenry to be appropriatly discrete.