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To: Mama Bear who wrote (329)	7/1/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Mike P.	Respond to of 13060

believe me If there is something I understand its balance sheets. lol. I do not discount the cost of anything, what I tried to do was lay out the financial costs to support my view because Turboe fairly called me on it. If you believe the actual monetary expense and fiscal numbers support the legalization process, please present your argument and I will be happy to hear your point. All I ask is we keep this one on actual physical monetary value. I understand the costs associated with prohibition, in fact, many are the same as legalization. But please do not expect me to state supporting facts of your view, I would than be debating the issue myself. Thanks for bringing up the obvious, I was expecting it sooner. poet.

To: Mama Bear who wrote (329)	7/1/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 13060

Good Day Ms. Payne or I am enjoying your insightful comments., imagine <g> The cost of the War on Drugs is tremendous. Here in Alberta the RCMP and city police launched an operation they called Weedeater. A total of fifty five warrants were executed by the police, all were thrown out of court. The cost to taxpayers was +6 million dollars for this one operation. The police lied to the judge, broke into houses and failed to mention that they didn't find anything, when they first presented the warrants a local magistrate refused to sign them. He said the evidence was poorly gathered. They rousted another Provincial Justice out of bed at 9:30 on a Sunday and got him to sign. The pile of warrants was about 2' deep, the judge didn't read them, he just signed them. Addresses were wrong, facts were distorted or lied about, names were wrong, several houses that were hit by the swat team were the wrong houses. The alleged ringleader had his home broken into by the police twice, once the day before the warrant, police found nothing linking the suspect to crime or drugs, but smashed his door down anyway. The judge who threw it all out of court said the police acted like "common criminals", I agree.