Whether it's marijuana or cocaine matters little to Justice Minister Redford
If there's a new war on drugs, this is the sound of the artillery.
Yesterday, at a big gabfest on how to go after gangs, the province's justice minister sized drug users up in no uncertain terms and Calgary's police chief threw in some of his own grief for good measure.
We're talking about the imbibers of everything from pot to crack. They're being painted as a very big part of the gang problem and not any part of the solution.
And, while the tides may be shifting somewhat elsewhere, at least when it comes to looking more loosely at marijuana, they're nowhere near Alberta, where any official talk of going easy on weed is not happening.
"People should stop buying drugs. Period. Gangs are in the business of making money and the way they do that is by selling illegal drugs. Customers feed the machine of crime, violence and gangs," says Alison Redford, the justice boss not known for playing soft with the syllables.
"It doesn't matter if the customer is someone who is vulnerable or someone sitting in a middle-class neighbourhood or someone with a lot of money, a customer is a customer. They're giving money to gangs. They are fuelling criminal business in this province."
Pot, cocaine, name the drug. It's all there.
Yesterday, at a big gabfest on how to go after gangs, the province's justice minister sized drug users up in no uncertain terms and Calgary's police chief threw in some of his own grief for good measure.
We're talking about the imbibers of everything from pot to crack. They're being painted as a very big part of the gang problem and not any part of the solution.
And, while the tides may be shifting somewhat elsewhere, at least when it comes to looking more loosely at marijuana, they're nowhere near Alberta, where any official talk of going easy on weed is not happening.
"People should stop buying drugs. Period. Gangs are in the business of making money and the way they do that is by selling illegal drugs. Customers feed the machine of crime, violence and gangs," says Alison Redford, the justice boss not known for playing soft with the syllables.
"It doesn't matter if the customer is someone who is vulnerable or someone sitting in a middle-class neighbourhood or someone with a lot of money, a customer is a customer. They're giving money to gangs. They are fuelling criminal business in this province."
Pot, cocaine, name the drug. It's all there.
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