Drug bust in Brunswick County leads to marijuana camp

Petty busts like this one only result in an increase in real crime. Believe it or not, marijuana is good for a city. It enables good people who otherwise have no chance at making an honest living to pay their bills, feed their kids, and ultimately contribute to society. Who cares if the dollars are non taxed, thats more money in our town! More money in our town means more money is spent, more job opportunites become available, and the economy will be on steroids. More people will thrive, less kids will go to bed hungry, social services will have slightly less demand.

All the BCSD did was kill a good market for Brunswick county. Crime rates (REAL crime) will rise, more people will get robbed, less money will be spent, the economy will weaken. Think about it. We are paying our tax dollars to kill our society in ways like this! I do not condone the sale of hard drugs like crack cocaine or prescription meds, but damn its just a bush in a bag that helps everyone out, from the hard working street grunt to the owners of major corporations. In 5 years there will be NOTHING the federal gov can do to stop the legalization of this amazing plant. There goes my 2 cents.

And for the record, I smoke and my grammar is better than anyone's on this board. HATERZZZZ!!

This bust hasn't done anything except allow the Police Department to show off what they did. Ohh look what we found, all this weed it's soo bad..while not even 10miles from there someone was being robbed or attack. Sorry that the US propaganda on pot is soo bad but when confronted with this question whats ur idea. "at the end of a night would you rather put yourself in the hands of someone who has been smoking pot or someone who has been drinking?" after careful consideration know that yes while one is legal and the other is not, the amount of consumption of either will be illegal and to behonest alcohol is only legal due to the fact that the U.S. Government was able to profit off of it. Once they find a way to profit from pot(like europe already has) it will be legal.

for my opinion on the question i put before you. My answer is simple. I will ride with the smoker; because when you smoke..you are killing yourself

BUT when you drink you risk killing everyone around you.

This is just plain asinine. Using taxpayers money to "bust" some horticulturalists in the woods. To think that my paycheck is cut short for a helicopter and a few extra man hours to do gardening. Of course I respect it when the men and women of law enforcement are allocated to do useful/meaningful crime prevention. However, this is under no such category. Its quite amusing to think that there are some people in this country who still believe marijuana propaganda. This single issue is what spearheads the whole campaign against it's legalization. Eyes will be opened in a few years when Marijuana is legal. It will only be accompanied by increased tax revenue, sudden drop in drug trafficking, and increased attendance in middle/high schools.