Mel Rowing wrote:
> On May 3, 7:52 am, Dr John Watson
> wrote:
>
>> "As export product, Dutch cannabis comes second or third after cucumbers
>> and tomatoes. Germany and the United Kingdom are big customers," said
>> police commissioner Max Daniel, responsible for combating the
>> organised crime behind cannabis-growing.
>>
>> Although police destroy 15 cannabis nurseries daily, the raids have no
>> effect on the supply but only on the price of the cannabis. The growers
>> want compensation for the bigger chance of being caught in the price they
>> get for their grass. And the tax service benefits from this too, the
>> reportage reveals.
>
> I thought the whole point of legalisation (or regulation as they
> prefer to call it) is to remove the criminal element fromthe supply
> chain?
But the Dutch only tolerate cannabis use, use is not officially
decriminalized and production is not even tolerated. Thus the NL LEOs
have their cake and eat it. If only the USA could be nearly as smart.
By the way in Oakland & San Francisco recently we had a string
of busts of houses used for growing cannabis. Speaking to my friends
who use medically but prefer to stay of official registries the dealers
were going to lower prices but for the inflation of gasoline prices.
So you see how much good busting any number of grow sites does, but
California's LEOs would envy the number of busts.
later
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