Amen. My dad was watching TV news the other day and saw this huge pot bust. Right after watching them complain about the economy. He made the valid point of how much money was spent in man hours hunting down the pot, setting up the bust, now prosecuting the criminals involved and then feeding and housing and paying medical bills on the pot dealers.
He said “Don’t we need priorities right now? Somehow, pot just doesn’t seem to be such a big deal when they are saying our banking system might collapse”.
He also said “How many cars were searched for pot in Florida while that little girl was rotting in the woods right up the road from her home”.
He wasn’t really wrong I don’t think.
I suspect that the authorities had the family in their sights as suspects in that murder and needed to make the case.
How many men should have been put on the manhunt to find Eric Rudolph, domestic terrorist? What number would it have taken to get the job done in a year?
A very good point.