[420 Girl]

In the case against the Smith family, the police raided the home to find the four pounds of marijuana which they knew was in the house. They burst in, using flash bang grenades to disorient and confuse the people in the house, and hoped to safely remove the marijuana without anyone getting hurt. However, they were prepared to fight for the "pot" and do whatever was necessary to get it. No one got hurt, a miracle considering that shots were fired.

Now I ask you all, was it worth it?

The potential was here for loss of life, and I ask again, is that worth it? A 19-year-old girl could potentially go to prison for the best years of her life, so that four pounds of marijuana, an herb, is taken out of circulation.

At the end of this raid, did the police congratulate themselves on serving "justice"? How about if the worst possible scenario had played out? Had the girl accidentally killed the policeman, and I do believe that she had no idea what was going on in the house for her to have shot through that door (what do we think, that this girl was planning on taking out an entire SWAT team but stopped at the one shot?), and then the police responded by shooting her, would it still have been worth it? Had the other policemen decided to be rougher on the remaining suspects in the house, after seeing two people shot and killed, and a policeman decided to sit on the young pregnant girl, as officers do to stop a struggling suspect, and the baby been killed, would it still have been worth it?

For four pounds of marijuana?

That means that, to stop four pounds of herb from hitting the street, it is possible to have two people die and a baby killed in the womb and consider this an acceptable exchange. How far off have our priorities fallen to allow this?

You people (are) mad to ignore the value of the lives inside the house and to Rambo through the windows to destroy the evil... herb? How many dead people are acceptable to destroy four pounds of an herb?

Now, the other side of the coin.

Had the police not approached the house at all, what is the worst case scenario? The four pounds of marijuana would be distributed, smoked and disappear altogether. No one gets hurt, no one goes to the hospital, no one gets shot through the door by a terrified teenage girl. In fact, no one dies of marijuana unless the police are somehow involved. It is the nature of the law itself which drives people to behave violently in regards to this drug; if there were no laws against it, then there would be no reason for anyone to ever get hurt at all.

Sound familiar? Kind of like alcohol prohibition, more people were endangered because it was outlawed than were hurt by the drink. By the way, legal alcohol kills more people (sclerosis of the liver, drinking while driving, etc...) than illegal marijuana (which can, admittedly, cause lung cancer.) This defies logic, and when this poor girl is sent to prison, she'll have at least a decade to think about how illogical it is that she is in prison because she shot an armed man outside her door.

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