Media duped on dope story

[Feathered Fish]

Here's a great editorial on the alleged "grow-op" that was raided where four RCMP officers were killed.
Canada's media, although nowhere near as slanted to the right as the MSM outlets in the US, is just as hungry for this kind of propagandizing garbage.
They got called on it.

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As Canada nears the end of its media-imposed mourning for the four unfortunate RCMP officers killed in Alberta last week, it might finally be time to call the nation's police officials out for their duplicitous appropriation of the shootings as ammunition in the war on drugs.

In no way should this be taken as disrespectful to the young men who lost their lives in the line of duty on March 3. No one should have to die for their job, particularly when that job involves something as mundane as repossessing a pickup truck — which, now that some of the smoke surrounding the sad events on that Mayerthorpe farm has cleared, appears to be what those officers were called in to do.

The fact that the RCMP was so quick to muddy the circumstances of the deaths of four of its own men by insinuating that they were gunned down while marching into a heavily fortified marijuana-growing operation, however, is in entirely bad taste.

Their killer, James Roszko, had about 20 marijuana plants on the property. Twenty pot plants don't make for a terribly lucrative operation, if they even qualify it as an "operation" at all. That number is, in fact, downright mom-and-pop when one considers that a much-publicized raid on a covert plantation in Barrie's old Molson brewery last year yielded 30,000 plants. That, my friends, is a grow-op. And not a single gunshot was fired during its police siege.

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1. Second largest paper, article calls for Free Cannabis

This article also appears at CannabisNews.com- http://tinyurl.com/4u2ym - and Medpot.net- http://tinyurl.com/54bpe

The Toronto Star is the second largest newspaper in Canada. In this article they call for legalization. The deaths of the RCMP officers stirred up debate and the prohibitionists have taken a beating because they have no defense for prohibition. The four-part series out of the largest paper in British Columbia also called for legalization- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=218x491

There is an avoidance in the media to cite the Select Senate Committee Report on Illegal Drugs in 2002 that called for Free Cannabis For Everyone over 16. The report in Recommendation 7 also called for clearing all cannabis charges from people's records with a blanket amnesty. They all but come out and say that Cannabis Prohibition that was adopted nationally in 1923 is wrong and always has been wrong.

The very existence of valid prohibition laws is questionable. Failure to implement a workable MMJ by Health Canada when ordered to do so by the Supreme Court lead to the Prohibition as practiced by Canada as unconstitutional with Terry Parker cases in Ontario and Grant Krieger in Alberta. Because drug cases are tried by the Crown the recognition that the laws are of no force and effect in one province means they are of no force and effect in all of Canada. The Crown cites a resurrection by the courts in a Hitzig decision, but the argument there is that only Parliament can enact laws, while the courts can only abrogate them. There is a thread on the dead cannabis laws in Canada at HempCity- http://tinyurl.com/6r28q

Less than 800 people are recognized as worthy of a medical exemption for cannabis when a million claim use for medical reasons. They are hassled with paperwork and the doctor's medical association ask for resistance in approving medical exemptions. Supply from Prairie Plant systems grown underground in an old copper mine is badmouthed for being irradiated and contaminated with heavy metals. It is of inferior quality and Health Canada instructed them at one time to grind up stems and leaves with the medicinal buds. They also want $150 an ounce in a country with socialized medicine, even for people on disabily that are facing death and crippling illnesses. Even if there were valid laws, a person with enough money for lawyers could have them struck down for the same reasons the courts did before. There is no real MMJ program from Health Canada.

Sativex, the cannabis extract from GW Pharmaceuticals in England, has submitted application for use in MS and its approval is immanent. There is a group called something like Cannasat that wants to monopolize what will be a lucrative market. They want to push the compassion clubs out of business and keep prohibition.

It is all being driven now by a large experiment in the Catalonia region of Spain that will encompass 150,000 patients- http://tinyurl.com/4gk7c It is important to remember that cannabis only needs one medical application to show the Schedule 1 classification by the DEA to be the lie even the DEA knows it to be. And there are many uses for cannabis including the reason for recommendation in California of being an alternative to alcohol for alcoholics.

The days of a political mouthpiece of a government with a $28 billion budget for the National Institute of Health saying "We need more research" are about over.

Cannabis Prohibition is an outright fraud.