Canada is going backwards for sure

[Hawk]

long known for it's quality marijuana... BC is going to take a huge hit with the new federal laws. Minimum 6 month sentence for just 6 plants

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/new-pot-laws-could-overwhelm-bc-jails-78

[Floppin]

Canada will now have longer minimum sentences for marijuana than it does for Child Molestation.

[Hawk]

hardly makes any sense at all...and I'm not even a smoker

[Floppin]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting tougher on pot growers than he is on rapists of children. Under the Tories' omnibus crime legislation tabled Tuesday, a person growing 201 pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who rapes a toddler or forces a five-year-old to have sex with an animal.

Producing six to 200 pot plants nets an automatic six-month sentence, with an extra three months if it's done in a rental or is deemed a public-safety hazard. Growing 201 to 500 plants brings a one-year sentence, or 1½ years if it's in a rental or poses a safety risk.

The omnibus legislation imposes one-year mandatory minimums for sexually assaulting a child, luring a child via the Internet or involving a child in bestiality. All three of these offences carry lighter automatic sentences than those for people running medium-sized grow-ops in rental property or on someone else's land.

A pedophile who gets a child to watch pornography with him, or a pervert exposing himself to kids at a playground, would receive a minimum 90-day sentence, half the term of a man convicted of growing six pot plants in his own home.

The maximum sentence for growing marijuana would double from seven to 14 years, the same maximum applied to someone using a weapon during a child rape, and four years more than for someone sexually assaulting a kid without using a weapon.

Here in B.C., if police and prosecutors don't rebel against the new laws, we're going to be hit with massive jail costs, says Simon Fraser University criminologist Neil Boyd. The new marijuana legislation will increase the proportion of pot criminals in B.C. jails from less than five per cent to around 30 per cent, at a cost of $60,000 to $70,000 per inmate annually, Boyd says.

"Why put people who are not violent in jail?" Boyd asks. "People who commit serious violent crime are already dealt with pretty harshly, and crime rates are down, not up."

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Child+rapist+less+time+than+grower/5438011/story.html

[Doyle]

I was under the impression that most of Canada just turned a blind eye to weed.

[4Corners]

Canada will now have longer minimum sentences for marijuana than it does for Child Molestation.

GRG should move up to Canada.

[Wither]

Only the potheads are angry.