[Freakinoldguy]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Agreed that the marijuana provisions are abusrd and unnecessary. Also, the data shows that locking up young offenders for longer periods actually makes them LESS likely to reform and MORE likely to become lifetime offenders. Eliminating house arrest for property crimes is also unnessary waste of resources and will just turn petty thieves into hardcore prison gang members who will be a far greater threat to the public when they get out of prison.

Who said they're getting out.

Although I do agree with you about the marijuana provisions, but on the other hand I can see why they're putting them in place.

I'm pretty sure that the Gov't would have left the marijuana laws alone if they could have come up with a viable alternative to shutting down gang owned and operated grow shows.

The problem is you don't know who's working for themselves and who's working for the gangs and I guess they figured that if you were growing for yourself, 5 plants would be enough to keep youg going.

In this situation it's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario.

[Curtman]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Enjoy your crap sandwich because it's gonna be a long long time before the NDP ever or the Liberals get relected federally and have the mandate to neuter the criminal justice system again like they did in the sixties and seventies.

You mean around the time when the crime rate started its downward trend?

[Curtman]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Agreed that the marijuana provisions are abusrd and unnecessary. Also, the data shows that locking up young offenders for longer periods actually makes them LESS likely to reform and MORE likely to become lifetime offenders. Eliminating house arrest for property crimes is also unnessary waste of resources and will just turn petty thieves into hardcore prison gang members who will be a far greater threat to the public when they get out of prison.

Who said they're getting out.

Although I do agree with you about the marijuana provisions, but on the other hand I can see why they're putting them in place.

I'm pretty sure that the Gov't would have left the marijuana laws alone if they could have come up with a viable alternative to shutting down gang owned and operated grow shows.

The problem is you don't know who's working for themselves and who's working for the gangs and I guess they figured that if you were growing for yourself, 5 plants would be enough to keep youg going.

In this situation it's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario.

It wasn't 5 plants originally. The opposition forced them to raise the number from 2. Its only 5 without aggrivating factors. If you live "near" a school for example, or you live on rental property, its less than 5. There is no definition of near either.