cricket wrote:
> "usual suspect" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>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?

Austin, Texas.

> i grew up on a farm in ohio.

I am a simple farm girl from
Quebec, we are esily confused.
- "cricket" 8/7/2005

Clearly so. Which is it?

> it dosn't get a whole lot
> more rual then that.

Did your family grow marijuana, which is the issue at hand?

> and even though i moved to the city i still have a
> garden where i grow every thing i can for myself.

You're a few steps ahead of the rank hypocrite Skanky.

> 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,

I would be surprised if you were right. I was born in a farming
community and many of my family are still in agriculture.

> and even
> how to to it by hand if they had to just to support their family.
> it's sad.

Not as sad as your childhood memories. Did you grow up in Quebec or Ohio?