Prohibition putting Atlanta families in danger

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19929315/detail.html

Officials with the Gwinnett County Police Department said they seized 457 pounds of marijuana and a cache of guns from a Lilburn home

Investigators with the department’s drug task force said they received an anonymous tip from a citizen who was concerned about possible drug activity at the house.

457 pounds of marijuana worth $2,118,293.00 was located and seized, according to police. Five weapons including a M16 and AK 47 assault rifle were also confiscated along with a large amount of ammunition.

I can’t write like Russ so I’m just going to post what I commented on the article and what I’m currently sending to my legislators and all the community and family groups I can find in Atlanta and Georgia:

Wow, this is right here in Atlanta! These people are here in our city, they make pot easy for kids to buy and they bring guns and violence and home invasions right into our communities.  It’s only a matter of time before it’s our door that gets kicked in and it’s us who are tied up and brutalized and killed.

What are our legislators doing about it? The police made one lucky catch here but there are many more of these people in our city right now with their pounds of weed and their guns. They’re here to make money. They’re here because the federal prohibition on marijuana has driven the price of pot up so high that these people can come here and get filthy rich selling their weed to anyone with money. And they don’t care how young their customers are or who gets injured or tortured or killed in the process.

We HAVE to take action on this. The prohibition was supposed to keep us safe but it does not. It’s been in place for seventy years and it does NOTHING to reduce the amount of marijuana smoked by teenagers and it does nothing to prevent violent people from coming here and getting rich from selling pot. If the prohibition worked then after seventy years stuff like this wouldn’t be happening!

The prohibition itself is the reason they’re here. They come because there’s no competition for what they’re selling. And every arrest by our police officers, and every bust of every illegal seller just clears the way of competition for new people to come here and do the exact same thing!

The prohibition HAS to go. We have to force these people to leave and we have to prevent new ones like them from wanting to come here. And the ONLY way we can do this is by ending the prohibition and issuing licenses for reputable businesses to legally produce marijuana and sell it to adults with after-tax prices set too low for these people to compete.

That’s what we have to tell our legislators! Senator Chambliss, Senator Isakson, Representatives Price, Kingston, Westmoreland and all the rest. We must write to all our legislators and the candidates running for next year’s elections and tell them that they must act NOW to make our families safe.

Don’t let your kids get arrested for buying pot from these people and don’t leave your family in danger of being beaten or killed by them. Tell our legislators that they have to end the prohibition and take control of the marijuana market, that they have to allow it to be legally produced and sold to adults and that they have to regulate it and tax it. The prohibition is an archaic failure, we must end it before it ends us.