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I understand all of the above and agree with its importance on one level of or another.
I anticipate that they'll focus on the illegal cannabis trade and the heat that it brings
upon the community, and it does.
I'll address only a couple of aspects that affect the community via rippers alone:
A ripper steals a car to drive (wouldn't use yours woodja?) usually locally.
A ripper often kicks in the wrong door (WE DON'T GROW HERE!) and those
consequences range from property damage to a family terrorized to murder.
Rippers go in armed and ready to fight, legal growers unfortunately attract this,
having a neighbor or two or three that grow is now high risk for anyone nearby.
The public is now well aware of the pitfalls of the current system, they
are calling for change & the law enforcement community is reacting. Very
likely given the time and experience changes will be made to the system
and it will balance out in the end. Across the board legalization will stop
all or most of this nonsense.
for that to work, people (and i mean the general public, not just icmag) would need to understand how the current laws do more damage to society than the drugs they are meant to stop.