A group of young men were busted yesterday for utilizing an abandoned building in Morris Park as a marijuana grow house. How much does this cost the tax payers for this one bust alone?
While we have real crimes being committed such as rapes, murders and beatings – let alone the banking industry which nearly collapsed this country into major financial ruin, we are spending billions upon billions of dollars in this country to fight the “evil” marijuana.
We really need to do some serious soul searching into this because our government is fighting something that is clinically proven to be beneficial yet we allow alcohol to be consumed in vast quantities when 1 in 25 deaths around the world can be attributed to alcohol use? There have been absolutely no deaths on record that were because of marijuana use at all. So where is the problem?
Furthermore, humans and a large majority of life on earth have cannabinoid receptors indicating that we have evolved in conjunction with such substances. Alcohol on the other hand destroys our liver!
The billions spent in New York State alone, fighting marijuana, could be put to better use in education, health care and other social programs to help the poor rather than incarcerate them.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8526160
