Is Pot Really to Blame?. Steve Maich and others.
by Maich, Steve; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 72Health. Publisher: Maclean's, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Crime -- Canada | Drug traffic -- Canada | Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- Canada | Narcotics -- Control of -- Canada | Police -- Canada | Police murdersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "They never saw it coming. The four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers gunned down on the morning of Thursday, March 3 [2005], lost their lives while guarding a crime scene--a cache of supposedly stolen auto parts and a marijuana growing operation belonging to a notorious local thug named James Roszko. That morning was supposed to be taken up with the kind of dull, routine police work that officers quickly grow accustomed to. But instead, Roszko returned to his farm outside Mayerthorpe, Alta., 130 km northwest of Edmonton, with an assault rifle and a score to settle. The events that unfolded may end up having profound implications for the way this country deals with drug enforcement." (MACLEAN'S) This article considers whether or not the tragic deaths of the four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were caused by the increasing number of marijuana operations throughout Canada, or if the tragedy was a result of "the eruption of an armed and disturbed individual."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Is Pot Really to Blame?, March 14, 2005; pp. 22-29.
"They never saw it coming. The four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers gunned down on the morning of Thursday, March 3 [2005], lost their lives while guarding a crime scene--a cache of supposedly stolen auto parts and a marijuana growing operation belonging to a notorious local thug named James Roszko. That morning was supposed to be taken up with the kind of dull, routine police work that officers quickly grow accustomed to. But instead, Roszko returned to his farm outside Mayerthorpe, Alta., 130 km northwest of Edmonton, with an assault rifle and a score to settle. The events that unfolded may end up having profound implications for the way this country deals with drug enforcement." (MACLEAN'S) This article considers whether or not the tragic deaths of the four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were caused by the increasing number of marijuana operations throughout Canada, or if the tragedy was a result of "the eruption of an armed and disturbed individual."
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