Topic: Marijuana
Vote Online for Legalization of Marijuana in Canada - Update
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 2:37pm
By. Jacob Hunter, WhyProhibition.ca
On Tuesday, Stephen Harper and Google launched “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.
Lil Wayne trounces PM on YouTube
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 1:07pm
By. Richard J. Brennan, Toronto Star
OTTAWA–As Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke to Canadians "unfiltered" in his first YouTube appearance, viewers talked back, weighing in online with hundreds of questions ranging from the legalization of marijuana to his inability to get a majority.
"You couldn't get a majority against the weak (former prime minister Paul) Martin or the lame duck (former Liberal leader Stéphane) Dion, & polls show you would also fail vs the foreigner (Michael) Ignatieff," one viewer wrote.
"When are you going to step down and let a real leader win a majority for the good of the party & the country?"
Pot prohibition has proven a bust
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:35pm
By David Seymour, The Leader-Post
The front page of the March 9 Leader-Post reported the government can't even keep drugs out of prisons. Given that prisons are purposely designed to be secure, this news may be a good prompt for asking whether it's rational to try and prohibit cannabis from an entire country, which happens to be the world's second largest and the most sparsely populated. Regardless of whether it succeeds in preventing cannabis use, does the prohibition cure have side effects worse than the drug disease?
Indeed, cannabis law reform has enjoyed open minded publicity in specialist publications recently, from the conservative C2C Journal to the neo-Marxist This magazine. In a thoughtful C2C article entitled "the price of pot prohibition" Peter Jaworski gives a feel for the dimensions of cannabis prohibition and finds it to be a highly irrational policy.
Harper’s Youtube Political Dilemma: Cannabis Legalization
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:15pm
by 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.
Legislature allows more than just docs to OK medical marijuana
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:43am
By Associated Press
On a 34-13 vote Thursday, the Senate approved the measure after concurring with some changes made in the House. The bill now heads to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature.
It adds physician assistants, naturopaths, advanced registered nurse practitioners and others to the list of those who can officially recommend marijuana for patients under the state's medical marijuana law.
Under current law, only physicians are allowed to write the recommendation.
A trip through the Marijuana way-back machine
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:39am
By. DrugWarRant
Popular Science has made its archives searchable, and this has led to finding gems such as this article, from May of 1968
This was 42 years ago, an era when the science of marijuana was incomplete, yet they oddly seemed to know more than “we” do today. It was a time before science had been turned to proving an agenda, back when it was about learning the truth about stuff.
Let’s take a look at some of Popular Science’s conclusions about marijuana…
Though medical men agree that marijuana is not physically addictive (unlike cigarettes and alcohol), many classify it as “psychologically addictive” — a term that Dr. Malleson considers “extremely imprecise, misleading, and unuseful… In practice it means nothing more than the statement, ‘I want.’”
WalMart Fires Associate Of Year, Cancer Patient For Medical Marijuana
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:30am
By. Steve Elliot, Toke of the TownVote Online for Legalization of Marijuana in Canada
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:38pm
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!
This is our chance to force this issue front and centre before the Prime Minister, so please, vote today.
NDP, Liberal, Conservative politicians petition to stop Marc Emery's extradition to the US
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:32pm
By Carlito Pablo, Georgia StraightMembers of Parliament from three parties—Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat—are poised to present petitions with thousands of signatures seeking to stop the extradition to the U.S. of Canada’s Prince of Pot, Marc Emery.
The politicians are Conservative MP Scott Reid of Ontario, Vancouver South Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, and Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies, the Georgia Straight has learned.
“That’s correct,” Reid’s aide Mike Firth confirmed by phone from Ottawa. “We haven’t arranged a day yet. We’re still trying to get a day when the three of them will be available at the same time.”
Last summer, Emery entered into a plea bargain with American authorities that will likely see him thrown in a U.S. jail for at least five years for distributing marijuana seeds.
The petitions ask Conservative justice minister and attorney general Rob Nicholson not to sign the extradition papers of the Vancouver-based cannabis activist.
California Medical Marijuana Patients Regularly Arrested for Hash
Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:22pm
By Skip Jone, NewsReview.com
American puffers have always had to deal with the fact that law-enforcement officials traditionally make a distinction between marijuana in plant form and concentrated derivatives such as hash and kief. Now that California has legalized marijuana for medicinal use, that distinction continues to send innocent patients to jail for possession of hash and other concentrates, despite the fact that they are clearly authorized by Proposition 215, according to former state Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
“Concentrated cannabis or hashish is included within the meaning of ‘marijuana’ as that term is used in the Compassionate Use Act of 1996,” Lockyer determined in a 2003 ruling.
Free Marc Emery
