Why isn't crime an election issue?

[shafty]

Firstly - Paturoa, my sympathies. Good Karma will come your way.

I ran a security company for a number of years, and spoke with prolly thousands of burglary victims. Sad stuff. Like the wankers ringing up the victim to ask how to use their VCR, and laughing on the phone - and much worse - you can imagine.

With DVD players, Laptops, flat screen TVs coming down in price - means a stolen one is worth much less, - and a major driver is the drug habit - a 1000 a week habit doesn't just mean one TV.............got the picture.

I reckon, give the cops SS Commodores, make it desireable to join, make pistols standard issue, and fund it out of the $4 million we spend A DAY, yes people, A DAY -- on the DPB

[Salival]

Further more on this..

Now for some stupid reason ( sorry pot smokers ) this has become a socially accepted drug why?? Now Alcohol and Tobacco are already legal why make another harmful substance legal to?
I started trying cigarettes at around 6-7 years old stealing them from my aunties and uncles.. now would you want a 6-7 year old kid trying weed?

yes damn straight they have a bloody screw loose I think its absolutly stupid,

For medical reasons perhaps but I think it has to be proven a bit more that it is working for the person involved.

Maybe KB should start a political party ;-) - now that would never work .

It's become a socially accepted drug because there's nothing wrong with it.

The fact of the matter is that cannabis being illegal does more harm than good.

- How many police hours are wasted on cannabis investigation, when they could be investigating "real" crime?
- How many court cases are there in relation to possessing small amounts of cannabis? How much money does that cost the tax payers?
- How many lives are ruined with a criminal conviction that results only from propaganda released in the 50s and 60s by cotton corporations to prevent the cultivation of hemp?
- How many scientific studies done in the past five years have found cannabis to be even remotely as harmful as some people believe?

Weed has been smoked by millions of people for thousands of years. It's not going away any time soon.

I take your point that re: making another harmful substance legal, but how is keeping it illegal having any actual benefit? People still use it, and they're not going to stop. Keeping it illegal means that it must be sourced from criminals who may also be selling actual harmful drugs. Far less people would be exposed to the possibility of using amphetamines if they never had to deal with the people who sold them.

And I don't mean to hassle your folks or your upbringing, but why did they leave things like that just lying around? You surely can't say that everyone would just leave a joint lying around for their kid to find. Perhaps your caregivers should've been more careful with their drugs.