Well, Duh! A new report entitled "Breaking the Silence" says that the current criminalization of marijuana only supports organized crime. In other words, Steve Harper supports organized crime.
Stop the Violence B.C., which comprises dozens of police officials, doctors, university professors, legal experts and more, released a report today titled Breaking the Silence, which aims to show that marijuana prohibition, while well intentioned, has been ineffective — and, in fact, has adverse effects.
“There’s a huge problem that nobody, particularly political and other leaders in B.C., is talking about, and that is the link between cannabis prohibition and organized crime,” said Dr. Evan Wood, a coalition member and director of urban health research initiative at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
“The gang warfare that’s playing out on our streets is a natural consequence of cannabis prohibition.”
...The report also cites a 2009 Health Canada survey which estimated there to be “well over 430,000 cannabis users” in B.C., while the number of heroin and cocaine users is only a fraction of the size. This accounts for the high profit margins for marijuana in B.C. and explains why prohibition “has made such a key financial contribution to the growth of organized crime in this province,” the report notes.
Steve's answer, of course, is to build more prisons so that pot growers can be housed at taxpayer expense, making room thereby for successors to take over their lucrative trade. What an ideological idiot.
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