Canadian Coalition Calls For Pot Legalization To End Prohibition Violence

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Canadian Coalition Calls for Pot Legalization to End Prohibition Violence

Prohibition has been linked with violent crime since the bootlegging mob shoot-out days of Al Capone’s Chicago in the 1920’s. In recent years, it’s drugs like cocaine, heroin and even marijuana whose illegality has resulted in an endless cycle of nonstop violence among various traffickers and gangs competing for big-time, tax-free, black-market drug bucks.

Despite the fact that Canada is rarely associated with the kind of drug violence experienced in America or Mexico, a newly formed British Columbia organization called Stop the Violence B.C. has come together to advocate the outright legalization and regulation of cannabis on the premise that the black market of pot prohibition is a prime catalyst for gang violence in Western Canada.

Stop the Violence B.C. is a coalition of legal experts, law enforcement officials, university professors and physicians that have issued a report to substantiate their position entitled Breaking the Silence, which delineates the high profit margins that locally grown cannabis provide to traffickers as opposed to imported heroin and cocaine.

Couple that with an estimated 430,000-plus pot smokers in the B.C. province, and you have the formula for local drug gangs to commit mayhem and murder (as they did during a notoriously bloody gang war in Vancouver in 2009, which was partly instigated by competition over smuggling of the strain “B.C. Bud” from Canada into the U.S. by drug gang traffickers).

The report also incorporated a specially commissioned Angus Reid poll of 800 B.C. residents in September. Among the findings; a whopping 87 percent of those surveyed associated gang violence with the illicit pot market and 69 percent were of the opinion that their province should legalize and tax pot.

Canadian government response was muted; Shirley Bond, Solicitor-General for B.C., said Thursday, “Any thought of decriminalizing marijuana is certainly a federal issue. I can simply say that it is not on our agenda, we are not looking at any changes in British Columbia.” Though she did admit: “…very often we do see a relationship between large marijuana grow ops and organized crime.”

The Breaking the Silence report concluded that the social harms significantly reduced by a strictly regulated and severely taxed (this is Canada, after all) pot distribution system would outweigh the potential harms wrought by such legalization.

FONTE http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7378

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