Supplier of drugs to P.E.I. pleads guilty

Stephen

- January 27, 2013 at 10:57:46

I never really thought about it until I had a business meeting with an RCMP officer. He told me that we all think weed is harmless but in the end its not because of the domino effect. Most weed trickles down like this. That joint comes from a bag, that bag comes from a block, that block comes from a field grown in somewhere, who knows. That crop is funded probably by some foreign country that is involved in other illegal trades like weapons or underage prostitution. The terminology may not be correct that I used as it was awhile ago, but you get the point.

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  Epic Fails

  - January 27, 2013 at 17:05:59

  Until PEI gets off of the "I am related" or whatever goes on in their heads when they pick and choose who to come down on, It'll get worse, and until they stop doing things that waste time, It'll get worse, and until they go after the major imports and stop with the dime baggers it'll get worse, and until they weed out their psychopaths and moles, it'll get worse.

The Facilitator

- January 27, 2013 at 10:03:25

Anne I couldn't agree with you more. Distributing marijuana is illegal. The police can't pick what laws to enforce. If you think this drug is harmless, go and talk to the health professionals at the Provincial addiction Centre. They will tell you a different story.

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Been Around Dizzy Block a Few Times

- January 27, 2013 at 09:19:31

Speaking from experience, liquor is the gateway to harder drugs. In my youth I avoided marijuana because it seemed to make people stupider and I felt stupid enough already. I wanted to feel brilliant and funny and be the life of the party. When using harder drugs became a problem for me and my drinking alcohol became a problem for others, I quit both. I was lucky enough to be able to. These days, a little bit of stupid ain't so bad to me because I still know lots of people who are having and making problems for those around them still. Prescription drugs, alcohol and the people who push them are the real problem.

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anne

- January 26, 2013 at 20:42:56

What is wrong with you people!! Weed is not a harmless drug, Alot of these needle bangers and pill poppers probably started off with weed! Familys are suffering from drug use they should be all locked up!! Good for the police get all of these scum bags and lock them up!!

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  Citizen

  - January 27, 2013 at 00:09:10

  They might have done weed before pills, and they probably drank rum before they did weed, and the probably drank beer before rum, and probably tried tobacco before beer, and might have tried coffee before tobacco, and probably drank Coke or Pepsi before that. Saying a drug problem starts at weed is as silly. Nobody tries weed as their first drug. If pill poppers didn't have weed they'd still find their way to pills. Just because I drink beer doesn't mean I progressed into weed, everyone has their own limits.

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  umm

  - January 27, 2013 at 01:24:56

  More harmless then you probably know. Most people that I have heard start off with alcohol, not weed actually, and alcohol causes problem. but you don't see anyone getting locked up for drinking or having alcohol do you? no I didn't think so. Also I hope your not saying people should be locked up for doing weed because then you would have the jail full.

Yep, guess we never learn . . .

- January 26, 2013 at 17:36:49

Thank goodness, stopping these rum runners should be top priority. Like Islanders said between 1907 to 1948. "Prohibition is better than no rum at all!" But Al Capone may have said it best, "Prohibition has done two things. It's made nothing buy trouble for the common folk and criminals wealthy."

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former islander

- January 26, 2013 at 10:11:16

thercmp and police are doing a great job on pei of nailing drug dealers but as far as catching every one dealing in drugs this will never happen for every one caught there is at lest another one that is not caught .drugs are brought in by air and trucks hauling freight and human carriers on there person but at lest the law can put a curve in the sale of drugs .one thing we do need is longer jail sentences for drug dealers 3 years to 3 and half years is not enough .

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  Wasting their time.

  - January 26, 2013 at 16:26:07

  They are wasting their time on harmless dope. They could be doing something better with their time such as dealing with pills or otherharmful drugs.

Quiet Observer

- January 26, 2013 at 09:28:37

They call busting this small time grass importer a great success? This guy is nothing and bringing in relatively harmless dope. The real problem on PEI is the pills that Backus is bringing in here by the baf full. Everyone knows they are doing it and they don't even try to hide it. While the police watch their clubhouse in down east (where they are not stupid enough to use as a drug depot), they are bringing it in from Moncton to a motel in Cornwall (North River) and distributing from there. Pills are the problem, not a little dope.

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  former resident

  - January 26, 2013 at 12:27:49

  Leave it to the island to focus on Marijuana. Tim Hortons on Grafton street has to install needle dispensers in the bathroom to keep people from leaving dirty needles on the floor. When was the last time someone needed a needle to consume marijuana? Crime is being commited by people who are addicted to prescription drugs and the focus is placed on marijuana. This doesn't make sense to me. Time, effort and finances are being spent on apprehending the distributors of marijuana instead of where it is really needed. I know for a fact that a marijuana user is too lazy to get off the couch to get the cookies in the kitchen, they are definitely not motivated enough to rob Tim Hortons or threaten hotel employees by needle point. (which was the case a few years ago). I completely understand that marijuana is a concern however it is not the real issue. It is time for the island to pull their socks up and admit there is a real issue/problem with prescription drugs, thats were the focus should largely be!