Wil's Rant

It's already starting. That is, the talk of how Canada's decriminalization of pot has led to this incident. The fact is, this has nothing to do with it. This was simply a nut, for whatever reason, who decided to make someone pay for his life. It turned out to be four young officers in this case. The fact that this guy was well known to police leads to the question why wasn't much more caution taken? In any case, I don't believe that the proposed law has anything to do with it. They hadn't gone to his place over drugs, it was about stolen autoparts. I do see some links between the current situation and the possible new law. The possibility of decriminalization makes pot more socially acceptable. Being more acceptable, consumption goes up. Which leads to the increase in the presence of grow ops. Perhaps more than the simple decriminalization is called for. As an illegal substance, pot will still be produced by organized criminals. Perhaps it should be made available the same way booze is, that would be the end of the illegal grow ops, and the end of the involvement of organized crime.