A sick new twist in the war on drugs

forgetfulpenguin said:

The mutilated corpses of witnesses and journalists serve as a potent reminder that violent criminals are profiting from prohibition. However a disturbing new trend has emerged.

Vietnamese gangs are trafficking children into the UK to tend the cannabis plants as indentured servants. Despite the fact that the children are being coerced by violent threats from the gang they are prosecuted as criminals.

These poor children are taken from their indebted families and forced to live in fear of both the gangs that trafficked them and the police that treat them as criminals.

This is a sad new development in a pointless war.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2011/07/201172795838377646.html

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The Ruiner said:

Dude...loyalty to weed before loyalty to common decency is offensive and absurd. You need to get your head checked. These guys are growing for PROFIT from child labor! Get a damn job if your choices are quit growing or start kidnapping.

Wow...major wows.

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The Ruiner said:

From my point of view, this has nothing to do with the drug war. So, even the hint of sympathy for those f*cks is beyond me. I cannot compare the situation of a grower in California with that of a grower using forced child labor in southeast asia.

I woldn't want those bastards, saying in defense of growing, that "it's because of the drug war I kidnapped and forced these kids to trim my weed." The implication in and of itself is upsetting.

In fact, I would go so far as to say it's a really damn good thing that people that do that kind of crap are under the gun. I hope they pay.

The last thing growers need is kidnapping and forced labor as part of their stereotype, there's enough stupid BS to cut through as it is.

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