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Originally Posted by StirCrazy
ah but you are comparing a soft crime, to a murder/whatever type.. two totally different things.
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Actually, I was addressing Buk_A_neer's point by comparing crime that some crimianls do because they have carefully planned it out and weighed the pros and cons to that which is commited by those who "cant help it and/or are too stupid to see that if they get caught they will get locked up for a very long time".
I didn't mention murder/rape in this comparison but I do agree with you that it is much more violent and universally accepted as being wrong. I do not agree though with your conclusion that growing pot only affects the person who gets busted. Infact, the only people affected by murders are the victims and their loved ones (not a lot in a city like Calgary), while the cultivation of marihuana negatively affects everyone who owns a house in the city of Calgary because it is you who is making up for the losses incured by banks due to mortgage frauds and homes that end up being written off and comdemmed. Probably the losses from the theft of electricity are passed along to the consumer by utility companies as well. (Not argueing that murder isn't the more serious crime, just that it has a comparetively smaller 'sphere of impact')