the whole thing is for the police to raid the house with 8 cops and then also to pay a snitch 3 differnt times for $300 each time and a $100 a buy huh thats alot of taxpayer money dont you think

Janesville--that is the best idea I have heard yet! Perfect solution.

Couchsit-web md .com for all your marijuana related health questions. or wherever else, find out.

We can't seem to keep the drugs out of the country, perhaps we are going about this backwards. Don't block the drugs, deport the users. Ship convicted pot and meth users to Mexico, cocaine convicts to Columbia and heroin addicts to Afghanistan.

The users could buy direct and cut out the middle man, and it would be easier to blockade the users from returning to the US than it has been to prevent the drugs from getting in. No gang wars in the U.S., no expensive prison facilities, just a one-way train/boat ride to the drug-producing nation.

Let's see...would i be more concerned about a person illegally possessing prescription drugs or a little over an ounce of pot. Anyone who's tried both will answer that with absolute certainty.

This will let drug users know that even small amounts can get you arrested - it's a good deterrent.

More scum off the street ... Good Deal

Give all the pot head's a one way bus ride to CA.

Bones, you hit the nail on the head. This is a non-event.

Kman, we don't write the laws. We're sworn to enforce all of them. LE can't look the other way if we have information on crime whether it's a big fish or Joe Sixpack we're arresting.

To be fair about what the police are doing, you shouldn't base your opinion on what the Gazette selects to print each day. Entertaining the reader is an important part of selling papers in these times. I imagine this article was written simply because of mother's arrest when the police caught her son. The drug arrest and the amount are probably a daily occurrence at the PD. Otherwise a slow news day, don't you suppose?

It's a wonderful day in the Mrs. & son...... Rogers neighborhood!

mespl, since you bring up tobacco. I wonder if pot is made legal, and 20-30 years down the road, all of a sudden there is proof that it causes cancer or other long term side effects (there are studies that suggest it does, but I doubt it has been studied as much as tobacco, I am not an expert on the subject but intuition tells you that breathing smoke or vapors or whatever into your lungs is not good for you). Does everyone start suing pot growers? Does everyone start suing the government because they make it legal without properly studying the side effects? I bet people will.

Many arrests like this stem as a result of one of their customers getting busted with pot, most likely the result of an officer stopping their vehicle for an unrelated matter, such as traffic or a warrant.
Once that person is in custody, they give up their supplier in an attempt to receive a reduced charge.
If police can establish PC to serve a warrant, there you go. It's not time consuming or expensive to you the taxpayer, as the PD has a drug unit assigned for these cases, not patrol services. At least that's the case for most jurisdictions.
As far as the border issues are concerned, well, that's Federal, not local. That's not your local PD's fault, I'm afraid.
And cops actively seek and routinely arrest drunk drivers. Alot.

bottom line is...IT'S ILLEGAL. I'm not sure how this would be considered a waste of taxpayer's money. Tell that to the victim who's property is stolen to help pay for someone else's drug habit.

Sorry about the second also in that statement.

I never said everyone pays their taxes honestly. However have the FDA regulate the production and processing of this. Simply look at how well the tobacco industry did for a long time, they still do well enough to maintain a profit even with anti-tobacco advertising and huge taxes. That can be grown by a person at home or imported just as easy as legal pot would be. Yes it can be regulated, yes it can be taxed, yes farmers will farm that over corn, yes profits could be made, and we would not be funding the Mexican cartel any more. Keep profits in the country, get more tax money, take away a major source of funding for gangs. So if the government was able to regulate tobacco why is it so idiotic to think that they could also regulate pot also?

so let me get this straight..it's an "idiotic" statement to say "no demand, no drugs" because "we can't choose what people do with their lives or money" so what if they don't want to pay "the tax" or abide by the "regulations" that you seem to think will be a better solution. Kind of goes against the grain of your argument. The marijuana tax stamp worked out well...because everyone reports their marijuana useage and profit from dealing to Uncle Sam. It's almost more idiotic to suggest that the Govt could "regulate" this...oh wait, I take that back, they've done so well with TARP, Cap and Trade, Bailouts, the Auto Industry and your Health Care...yeah, more regulation and taxing because EVERYONE pays their taxes honestly.

From the sounds of some of you that are bitter, this must have been the source of your vice, and now it is shut down. I am sure this family was in it to sell for medical benefits....

“no demand, no drugs. It wouldn't come over the borders if there was no demand here” That is a true statement. It is the basis of supply and demand and how our economy runs. It is also an idiotic statement to think that we can change what someone else wants to do and chooses to do with their lives and money! The fact is that it will keep getting imported from other countries and the profits from running drugs will keep going to fund terror overseas unless it is grown here and regulated here. Grow it here, put some farmers to work, tax it and pay off the deficit. It will be consumed weather we produce it or not, I would rather regulate it than keep putting money into the war on drugs when it is a losing war and we all know it is a losing war. Yes fight the really bad drugs like meth and cocaine but regulate this one and use it to pay some taxes and keep the profits in the country. BTW I have never used it and would never.

Were they just getting ready to go skateboarding?

I agree with Neocon....if your son/daughter/neighbor/brother/sister/friends/coworkers werent looking for the drug there would be no demand for it !!!

Well stated, neocon!

How about we stop making the Police the targets of your critiques...and target the users and dealers and criticize them? no demand, no drugs. It wouldn't come over the borders if there was no demand here.
Armchair quarterbacks!

bring back the marijuana tax stamp

good job - every little bit helps - and believe me, 49.8 grams is just a little bit.

Nice.............

You police haven't even began to stir the kettle in this town for drugs,but lets penalize the tax payers with sidewalk bills & other things,same crap!!

That's a good mother/son bonding activity!!