On Monday, 42 years old Virgil Grant was sentenced to six years of imprisonment; he owned six medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. It was seen that he was dealing in pot with people for profit. After the investigation, it was found that one of his store was linked to an accident in which a motorcyclist was killed and an officer was paralyzed.
According to the U. S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, Grant used his clinics to make profit by selling marijuana. He also said that, planting and selling marijuana for your own profit was illegal other than medical purposes.
Grant’s business came into light in December 2007, when one of the customers of his Compton store crashed his truck into California Highway Patrol officer’s car which was parked on the shoulder Highway 101 in Ventura County. In the accident, driver of the parked vehicle was killed and Officer Anthony Pedeferri was injured.
After the accident, in the investigation, it was found that the truck driver had consumed marijuana and marijuana products were found in his truck that were bought from one of Grant’s dispensaries in Compton. The driver was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.
Grant was arrested in December as well, when he tried to open two more pot dispensaries against his bond which clearly asked him to stay away from marijuana clinics.
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Many of us have now finally
Many of us have now finally wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation, which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco --two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society. There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection, then maybe you're using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody 'halfway bright' and who's not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding, that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem; it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand. No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer; only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?
If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
The only thing prohibition successfully does is prohibit regulation & taxation!