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Vote Online for Legalization of Marijuana in Canada - Update

By. Jacob Hunter, WhyProhibition.ca

On Tuesday, Stephen Harper and Google laughed “Talk Canada” an online town hall in which users were asked to submit questions to the Prime Minister.

 

As of 1:30 Friday, March 12, the legalization of marijuana was in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, and drug policy 6 of the top 10. It was not just the number of marijuana questions, which some estimates place at 30% of all questions posed, but the sheer size of the vote spread. The #1 question has 1350 votes, while the #4 question, the first non-marijuana question, has 451.

 

Voting ends Sunday, March 14, and the Prime Minister has promised to answer the most popular questions on Tuesday, March 16.

 

Please, keep spreading the word, and let's make sure everyone has voted. All it takes is a google/youtube account and you can help push marijuana legalization to the top of the agenda.

Get Involved! Help Defeat Prohibition

We need to get a lot of work done to legalize marijuana, here's some ways to help!

Howto: Volunteer Get active helping build activism in Canada!

Howto: Organize Protests: May 1, 2010 is the Global Marijuana March, and of course there is always 4/20 (April 20) and Cannabis Day, July 1. We need organizers working across Canada on these and other events.

Recruit new members: Send that link out over Facebook and Twitter, encourage your friends to sign up! WhyProhibition.ca will is the basis for a number of important campaigns, including a new BC referendum to legalize Marijuana. We need people to register so they can find out about upcoming protests, rallies, and laws.

Submitting Content: We need bloggers, researchers, newshawks, and activists to get posting! You can use the userblogs section to post blogs, news, upload files (especially pamphlets, we're looking to host as many drug policy pamphlets as we can find!)

Howto: Get involved in your community: One of the most important things you can do is get involved in your local community. Join other activist groups, volunteer at soup kitchens, march in local parades. When we get involved, not only do we reach out to potential allies, but we also represent the best of our community to people who may be unfamiliar with it. If you're unsure about a group, attend some meetings and see if they're amenable to drug policy reform.

Harper’s Youtube Political Dilemma: Cannabis Legalization

“It sounded like a good idea at the time”. I fully expect those to be the words beginning to thrum in the mind of Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, following his announced acceptance of Google’s offer to stream his response to the throne speech today, and to answer YouTubers’ questions on YouTube next Tuesday, March 16th. It is a decision that has put him in an uncomfortable spot with respect to the issue of marijuana legalization.

Until Sunday, March 14th, the public will have the ability both to submit a question and to rank all of the questions submitted. The questions are not edited, so the whole process lacks the protection usually afforded by the mainstream media: Harper faces questions that concern the public, rather than questions designed to highlight the concerns or agendas of media interests.

The most shocking result, so far: all three of the three most popular questions so far – by a landslide – all deal with…cannabis legalization. I reproduce, below, the top three questions and their rankings (as of 6:05 PM on March 11, 2010), together with the fourth, which is not cannabis related.

WalMart Fires Associate Of Year, Cancer Patient For Medical Marijuana

By. Steve Elliot, Toke of the Town
Despite medical marijuana being legal in Michigan, WalMart has fired a cancer patient and former employee of the year who tested positive for the drug, which was recommended by his doctor.
 
"I was terminated because I failed a drug screening," ex-WalMart employee Joseph Casias told WZZM-13.
 
In 2008, Casias was Associate of the Year at the WalMart store in Battle Creek, Mich., despite suffering from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor.
 
At his doctor's recommendation, Casias legally uses medical marijuana to ease his pain.

Vote Online for Legalization of Marijuana in Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has decided to ask the Internet what issue is most pressing to Canadians.

We have a chance to push marijuana legalization to the top of that list (It's currently #2 and #3). You don't have to be Canadian to participate, so please, wherever you're from, help us legalize marijuana in Canada.

Please, click here to vote for marijuana legalization! Let's make marijuana the #1 and #2 questions to Stephen Harper!

And here vote here again!

This is our chance to force this issue front and centre before the Prime Minister, so please, vote today.

Wisconsin medical cannabis activists swarm Capitol for ongoing "Operation Floodgates"

By. Madison NORML Examiner Gary Storck

Madison: State medical cannabis activists have established a daily presence at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison to push for passage of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act as the 2009-2010 legislative session winds down. There is a real sense of urgency and interest in the bill that extends from rural townships and villages across the state to the largest cities to people watching from around the country. A vast coalition of people across the state are getting involved, enlisting others and doing whatever they can to get the JRMMA passed: "This Bill, This Time!"

"Operation Floodgates" is an organized campaign aimed to highlight the urgency of the issue, to make people aware a bill is being considered and to allow constituents to act now and help legislators find the compassion and logic to allow the use of medical marijuana.

The daily presence on Wisconsin's Capitol Hill will soon be enhanced with the planned opening of a Wisconsin NORML  office close to the Capitol. This will also create a place for supporters to help out, pick up literature, learn strategies and skills, etc. 

WhyProhibition.ca can show you your MP automatically!

Hey WhyProhibition.ca users!
 
If you're logged in to WhyProhibition.ca you can now see your Member of Parliament on the Top Right hand corner of the page.
 
If you've just created an account, the information wont be there right away, as we're just testing out the software for the first time.
 
After we've finished working out the kinks, we can start to identify your Provincial representatives, city representatives, local news media, and even potential friends!
 
Stay tuned to WhyProhibition.ca for more new and useful features. In the meantime, spread the word so your friends are signed up as well!

Iqaluit pot activist released from custody

By. CBC News

Iqaluit marijuana activist Ed Devries was released from police custody Monday after RCMP raided two local residences late last week.

Devries, 51, a self-described healer and founder of the Qikiqtaaluk Compassion Society, was arrested after RCMP found 0.9 kilograms of marijuana and $7,200 in cash in a search of his home and the Iqaluit marijuana club on Friday afternoon.

He was charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime.

Marijuana advocate Mason Tvert on why you should boycott Starbucks

Today, Mason Tvert, founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), called for a boycott of Starbucks, saying the coffee chain supported the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, a lobbying group that has opposed to medical marijuana.

The CDIA, which listed Starbucks as a sponsor on its website alongside such vendors as Glock handguns and Point Blank Body Armor, is a group that is seeking to overturn Colorado's constitutional amendment allowing cannabis for medical use.

Oddly, Tvert says, the CDIA's website was curiously taken down an hour before his noon appearance at the 300 East 6th Avenue Starbucks branch. But SAFER outreach director Eva Enns called it "totally metal." According to her, the site featured skull-and-crossbones graphics and a grim reaper rappelling from a helicopter declaring "Death on Drugs."

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