Legalize the pot and tax them instead of sue and jail them at taxpayer's expense.

Let my people go.

It's a shame when people get arrested for growing any plant, If the government regulated the sale of cannabis it would take the profits in itself rather than gift millions to organised crime. Cannabis can be one of the safest substances to use, the only real danger is the danger of state retribution which in turn gives these men criminal records and makes their lives even more difficult.

Well, sure, rhys, but the government will tell us that we need this "War On Drugs" for the better, because, once again, the crime rate and death tolls are "relatively high" here and it may be in connection to Human Trafficking. And so far, the majority of people believes them. What the busybodies do not want to see, that they are part of the problem, criminalizing people which causes all the problems around them. See, in Finland it was perfectly legal to buy heroine in pharmazies, up to the late saventies. Then it was prohibited. One of the effects: High prices that leads to the situation that addicted break into homes to finance their addiction. Prohibition creates crime, instead of preventing them, Al Capone is a good reference of cause because of prohibition. But our busybodies live from that, so they hardly will agree that their "services" are actually not needed.

It would be interesting to know more about the bust. Were the Finns contributing to the local economy, as black-market as their own activity was? Who and why were the police tipped off? A local working with the Finns? Estonia is always touted as respecting neighbors' privacy and independence, so who are these informers in countryside communities? I'm guessing a lot of the information comes from Eesti Energia statistics on power usage.

...and prohibition is the reason in the first place, why drug addicted females turn to protitution, because of the price hike of the drugs that is caused by the prohibition. Hey, why not Illegal Everything? We may become all criminals and it may take a couple of loans and increased debt ceilings to finance all the busybodies involved in the War On Everything, but, after all, it creates Jobs and Boot Camps, doesn't it? Let them get their legal shot for a low price, tax it, and through these taxes, offer them Drug Exit programs. That would help them and also prevents a three digit millions of Euros spent on HIV treatments for sharing needles and having unprotected saex on prostitution and like.

From looking at the picture with the article, I think these Finns lack 2 things. A: quality control, and B: a brain...