To much police time going to pot? | Globe and Mail

[Ediacara]

the title on the G&M's site is misspelled...

To much police time going to pot?

By SUE BAILEY
Canadian Press

Ottawa — The federal government's plan to decriminalize pot possession would free up millions of dollars and thousands of police hours, the latest statistics suggest.

Police laid a record number of drug-related charges in 2002 and most offences involved marijuana, Statistics Canada reported Monday.

Seventy-five per cent of 93,000 drug-related incidents in 2002 involved pot. Almost three-quarters of those were possession offences, and more than half of those convicted were fined.

"The police-reported drug-crime rate has risen an estimated 42 per cent since the early 1990s and now stands at a 20-year high," the agency said.

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1. yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,yes,yes!

[short bus president]

2. nah

most police still aren't smoking NEARLY enough.

[kayell]

3. SNORT! SPUTTER!

ooooooohhhh, mmmy y y pppooor keyyyyyy y yborad!

[Melsky]

4. So funny, so true

I'm glad Canada is tallying up all those numbers. Prohibition didn't work in the 20's and it's not working now.

Duh