When is enforcing the law a criminal enterprise?

When you use the law to steal peoples property when there is virtually no evidence to support the proceeds of crime statute other than that the onus is now on the property owner to prove their innocence.Take the recent case of a reclusive gulf islands resident who's paid for,$600,000 dollar home was seized by the crown for the horrible crime of growing marijuana.Had this man actually been growing for profit he would have been aware of the law and the inherent danger of using his own property for the deed.The man,a 59 year virtual hermit,had been growing pot for his own use for 22 years.He freely admitted this thinking it would be in his favor.If he was a true criminal he would have said nothing and called a lawyer.The crown,in it's zeal to show how B.C. has a zero tolerance policy(unless your an aid to a government minister or a developer with a penchant for hookers and cocaine and the police chief for a friend)chose to take the mans every possession in spite of the obvious doubt that crime had anything to do with this property purchase.Since the passing of this act the Province has stolen 4 million dollars in just under two years.I'm sure a lot of this property was seized justifiably,if you think ownership a crime.If every drug dollar was pulled out of the province tomorrow,half of every new project would fall into the hands of whoever the drug lords chose to offload it on.How much of the recent construction boom do you think is being used to launder criminal proceeds?Not just drug profits but white collar crime prostitution,gambling,protection.Look at the recent activities of this government on the issue of patronage and lobbying.How much illegal money is involved in the ICBC scandal,the Dobel cases,the recent disclosures about the deals in Washington,not to mention Basi-Virk?Why is the only crime that's punishable by the forfeiture of property the drug crimes?It's a known fact that the majority of Canadians want an end to prohibition,especially marijuana prohibition.That's what's in play here.I don't know the man involved.I am only taking the word of him,his lawyers and his neighbors that he almost never has visitors or is even seen.Doesn't sound like a drug dealer to me and I was a drug dealer for almost 35 years.This law is double punishment for a property owner and nothing else.It puts the police in an obvious conflict of interest as the proceeds of the sale of seized property goes to the law enforcement community.What's to stop a police officer that sees something he likes from planting evidence and seizing it then having it purchased in a sweetheart deal for pennies on the dollar?Not possible you say? where have you been for the last 40 years.The drug war has corrupted more police officers than during alcohol prohibition when whole forces were on the mafia payroll.Do you really believe this isn't happening as we speak.We had a police chief working for a major drug ring in the late 50's before drugs exploded onto the scene.Does anyone think things have changed as much as they have with no concurrent corruption?What are you smoking?

Killings,shootings,grow ops and corrupt cops

It's been a really good month in the drug war.There have been two shootings in town.One was a fight amongst street level dealers and ended with one man shot in the leg,one arrested for gun possession and a third in the wind.The other was a gang land hit and will not be solved as the police have a zero for god knows how many killings in gang land.In Ontario,the arrest of two officers led to a case involving cops prison guards and drug dealing and use.It seems the crown took too long getting it's case together for a judge so the whole corrupt mess was tossed out.What else can you expect in a war whose only enemy is it's own people.The country is divided down the middle on the issue and the government acts as if it had a mandate to act as if it's own personal agenda was the law of the land.They have stiffened penalties for crimes that half the country doesn't even see as crimes.Prohibition was a disaster with alcohol because people love to drink.The prohibition of drugs succeeded for a time because the usage was mainly in the ethnic communities.Drug laws were aimed at ethnic peoples because whites in power feared that their women would fall victim to "negroes,hispanics and jazz musicians".The genie was let out of the bottle in the 60's when a generation rediscovered them in a counter culture that formed around war protest and a few college proffessors that thought the whole world would be better off if every one dropped acid.Marijuana has since become the intoxicant of choice of many people and has been tried by even more.It is less harnmful than alcohol and those that claim we have one problem and don't need another are probably never going to try drugs anyway.It is simply unfair to allow one of the most harmful intoxicants on the planet to be government distributed while less harmful substances are prohibited.It is obvious,to all but the right wing leaning and the moralists,that pot should be legal and other drugs should be controled and distributed by physicians.The prohibition of drugs has been a terrible and expensive failure.How much longer are we to be held prisoner to a failed and very costly experiment in human mind control?