skunk farmer shoots 4 cops dead!

[globalloon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4317341.stm

Until now many Canadians have tolerated cannabis production as merely a minor nuisance, says the BBC's Ian Gunn in Vancouver.

This shooting during a cannabis raid will likely reignite the debate and perhaps force the government to rethink its more liberal approach to the drug


if it was tolerated, the police wouldn't have been there.

shouldn't they be rethinking gun laws not skunk laws?

[General Lighting]

true - if they had really tolerated cannabis rather than the half-measures of "decriminalisation" those people (cops and farmer alike) would still be alive today.

I wonder if the USA have been leaning on Canada, claiming the drugs are crossing the border, and thats why this particular farmer was targeted - was this a joint RCMP/FBI/DEA cross-border job, with the threat of the farmer being tried in the USA rather then Canada?

Although I don't think Canada extradites criminals if they face the death penalty; in this case it would be a long stretch in federal prison under US laws, then a return to Canada to serve the rest of the time (probably worse than death!)

I can't otherwise understand why the farmer would take such extreme action - after all its not as if Canada has started up this cannabis production yesterday...