"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Clueless Skanky wrote:
> >>>There's no addiction. Whenever
> >>>I don't smoke for a week or so,
> >>>there is no withdrawal, no longing,
> >>>etc. So drop the addiction bullshit
> >>>before I have to smack you or
> >>>something.
> >>
> >>Take "The Responsible Drug User's Oath" and then
> >>ignore him, if you agree with it want to, of course.
> >>http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclop...-User%27s-Oath
> >
> > That's a very good oath and one
> > I agree with totally.
>
> Then why did you qualify #12 with what you BELIEVE (perception) rather
> than FACTS (reality)?
>
> > As for number 12 though, I can only take the info
> > secondhand that there's no violence involved in the growing.
>
> "We're definitely seeing more violence," explains Mr. Benson,
> who recently oversaw a year long, cross- border sting called
> Operation Hockey Bag, in which investigators charged 22 people
> and seized more than 400 lbs. of marijuana, along with $3.4
> million and a dozen firearms. "It's not just weapons - it's what
> we're seeing from the organization. They rule and intimidate
> from within."
>
> RCMP investigators are still sifting through the evidence,
> trying to find out what led to the killing of the four officers
> last week. The incident began as an attempt to repossess a
> pickup truck but ballooned into a larger investigation after the
> marijuana growing operation was discovered. The gunman, Jim
> Roszko, killed the officers and later turned a high-powered,
> semiautomatic weapon on himself.
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0311/p01s03-woam.html
>
> "This illegal activity feeds drug use, guns and violence in the
> province," said Algar.
>
> "Anyone who claims that grow-ops are benign simply has not seen
> what the police see in these grow homes, and has not experienced
> what we've experienced in dealing with these public menaces."
>
> Community Safety Minister Monte Kwinter echoed Elgar's call for
> more assistance from private companies and individuals in
> dealing with grow houses, which often set up in residential
> neighbourhoods with stolen electricity that poses a serious fire
> risk.
> http://tinyurl.com/aj2vk
>
> And that doesn't even touch on the fact that a lot of the pot being sold
> in Canada is imported from Mexico, where violence along the Texas border
> continues to escalate.
> http://www.cbs13kvtv.com/news/headlines/1652956.html
>
> > As far as I know, all pot in Ontario
> > is grown locally
>
> Wrong.
>
> > and nonviolently,
>
> VERY wrong.
>
> > but I can't swear to it,
>
> No shit.
>
> > as I've never been inside a growhouse.
>
> Hardly surprising, given your clueless urbanite views about agriculture
> in general.

where do you live? i grew up on a farm in ohio. it dosn't get a whole lot
more rual then that. and even though i moved to the city i still have a
garden where i grow every thing i can for myself.

and you would be suprised how many farmers who have hudreds of acres of
crops have very little know how about what they are doing and why, and even
how to to it by hand if they had to just to support their family.
it's sad.