Debate Over Medical Marijuana Sparked Once Again Due To Violence

[Warbux]

A shooting and a death which was the result of beating, connected directly to medical marijuana, have now managed to prompt new calls by law enforcement officials and marijuana advocates for Washington State to try and change the way the drug is regulated and protection is offered to those who grow and use it.

Reports have revealed that last week, a man died in Orting, Wash., after he was severely beaten up when he confronted people who were trying to steal some marijuana plants from his property. In addition, on Monday, a renowned medical-marijuana activist shot an armed man who had broken into his residence in a suburban area, near Seattle, where he cultivates and distributes marijuana plants.

On Tuesday, the police placed 5 men under arrest and slapped them with charges of robbery linked with the shooting incident. One of the men arrested is in a critical state, after having been shot by Steve Sarich, who runs a group called CannaCare from his house, and he himself has suffered minor injuries.

The crimes are being viewed as the most violent ones ever recorded in the area, related to marijuana, and have ignited the demand for better regulation once again.

"Any person making medical marijuana is going to be a target because they have a valuable commodity", said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff's Department.



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[TorturedSoul]

Re: Debate Over Medical Marijuana Sparked Once Again Due To Violence.

[RANT]And it's truly a damn shame that there will be plenty of people that blame the cannabis for the crimes instead of the criminals. In a world where karma balanced itself in a much more immediate fashion, those people would be robbed of their money, jewels, fine automobiles - and someone would walk by and tell them that it all happened because they had money, jewels, and fine automobiles.

But that world is a different one than the one in which we live, I fear.

Even where cannabis is legal for medical use this attitude is prevalent even in the legislature which makes it legal in the first place! "Medical marijuana shall be grown indoors or in an outdoor location which may NOT be visible from..." blah blah blah. Why?!? Fear that it will tempt someone will be tempted into breaking the law by the "evil weed."

I want to be able to park my car in my driveway and if some thief decides to steal it I do NOT want to be blamed because I didn't have it locked away in my garage.

I want to be able to grow medicine in my front yard where it'll get the most sun and I do NOT want to be blamed because I didn't have it locked away in a closet or in the backyard in the middle of that big brier patch.

I want to be able to let my daughter walk home from work and I do NOT want to be blamed if some deviant decides to... Well, you get the idea.

One of these three statements, apparently, does not belong with the other two.

But I say that's wrong. WRONG![/RANT]