420

this  daughter will too.

just starting to rehearse? i been all afternoon just about 20 mins to go before the dress rehearsal.

so can membership in the ndp..

Mulcair wrote:

Legalization would be a mistake, because the information that we have right now is that the marijuana that's on the market is extremely potent and can actually cause mental illness

The RCMP has been using this stupid line for a decade now. If Mulcair knew anything about the subject he would understand the inherent lie in that statement.

Pot now (especially good ole BC Bud) is far more potent than the rag weed it is compared to from the 1960's. He is from Montreal has he never heard of black hash?  I mean give your head a shake most of us who still smoke pot never smoked shit weed we bought hash. Nepalese Tempal Balls, Lebanese kief and Afghan black were all popular in the late sixties and seventies. In the 80's black hash was super abundant because it was supplied by the CIA to provide arms to Afghan freedom fighters. The THC content of good bud is equivalent to the THC content of what we actually have always smoked because smoking lousy weed is like drinking watered down wine. 

I despair when I read things like this because frankly he should know better and instead is mouthing the War on Drugs rhetoric. Does he also support locking up anyone who grows pot for personal use?

Just like Washington State is proposing.  Maybe he should listen to people like these.  This not a left wing or right wing issue and he is on the wrong side.

Reuters wrote:

The group New Approach Washington submitted nearly 278,000 valid signatures for the measure, more than required to put it on the November ballot, David Ammons, a spokesman for the Washington Secretary of State's office, said in a statement.

The move comes as federal prosecutors have sought to crank up pressure on several mostly western states, including Washington, that have legalized medical marijuana even as cannibis remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law.

The proposal, if approved by voters, would allow marijuana sales to people 21 and older, permit state taxes to be collected on the drug, ban pot advertising and prohibit driving under the influence of cannabis.

Supporters of legalizing marijuana, who include acting Seattle city attorney Peter Holmes, say the federal prohibition on the drug has not curbed use and that it enriches drug cartels.

"This is the grown-up approach to regulating a relatively harmless drug," Holmes said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/28/us-marijuana-initiative-washin...

Vancouver Sun wrote:

In a fairly startling Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus about-face, John McKay says it’s time to tax and regulate marijuana because it provides too much cash to gangsters and fuels too much violence.

“The criminal marijuana prohibition is a complete failure,” said McKay, who became a high-profile federal prosecutor after his 2001 appointment by president George W. Bush.

“The problem posed by the vast criminal marijuana black market is a threat to public safety both in the United States and Canada. It’s time to rethink our criminalization and prohibition policy.”

That’s quite a change in tune from the man who vigorously went after the world’s leading marijuana promoter as well as cross-border drug traffickers.

...

The former prosecutor’s change of heart doesn’t help Emery, but his wife Jodie said she thought it would aid the burgeoning movement for drug-policy change.

She joined McKay, along with former B.C. attorney-general Geoff Plant, at a media conference Tuesday to emphasize the abject failure of the present approach.

“When we think of using law enforcement as a tool, we usually think it’s going to make the problem go away,” Plant said.

“When we talk about cannabis, the effect of law enforcement is to make the problem worse in almost every respect.”

He added that violence and organized crime concerns in the province have worsened since he left office in 2005.

The trio was brought together by Stop the Violence BC, a coalition of academic, legal, law enforcement and health experts out to overturn the law.

“The government’s own data shows young people have easier access to marijuana than alcohol or tobacco,” said Dr. Evan Wood, a founder of the group. If you doubt it, he suggested attending the annual 420 smoke-in at the Vancouver Art Gallery, being held Friday afternoon.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Mulgrew+Emery+prosecutor+wants+legalize...

I love the Reefer Man. Great video.  He can sure cut a rug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ

Caissa wrote:

Actually Mulcair should be proposing legalization and a government monopoly. Excellent source of tax revenue.

Can't see it happening. Obama pretty much toe'd the party line on drugs at the OAS conference. 

The bottom line is that the Brits and CIA want to maintain their monopoly on illicit drugs in financing various covert black operations around the world. Legalize drugs and it would cut into illegal profits funnelled to various organized crime gangs and various political campaign war chests on the right. 

Wall Street and London banks have become somewhat reliant on laundering money from the drug trade and especially during economic downturns. They are still mad as hell at Fidel and the Cubans for putting the kibosh to drug mafia there.

It's a grey area of British "free trade theory".  I think it is a third rail issue the NDP won't be touching with a twenty foot pole any time soon. Meanwhile the phony and hypocritical war on drugs continues.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mulcair-clarifies-stance-on...

Mulcair's clarification is he doesn't want to send me to jail for having a joint.  Thanks for nothing. 

There is a third rail in this discussion if you are talking about a live connection that has the potential to harm humans.  If I get busted for growing my own I go to jail.  That to me is a live wire or third rail issue.

Does the potential to be incarcerated pale in comparison to the problems facing a political leader around the proper messaging to get himself elected. I hope that plays well for him in Upper and Lower Canada because I don't see it creating any kind of orange wave on the Salish Sea.

The fact that this particualr protest happens but once a year,makes for an incredible waste of time.

If there's anything to be learned from protests that actually worked,the marijuana protests and parades should be a daily thing...Or atleast every weekend and without break until the objectives are meant.

If large crowds of people were to have smoke-ins with acts of civil disobedience,maybe this movement would find some traction.

It would also be very effective that these protests be as peaceful as possible and a change of demographics..Less and less teenagers and more and more adults.

It only happens once a year? Oops.

A one day protest/celebration isn't going to change a thing.

Yea.

I wonder how this man is celebrating his birthday which falls on 420.

Kinda sad!

Marijuana: Canada Falls Behind As Burgeoning Industry Hits New Highs

B.C. bud was once the green standard of marijuana.

It was so well-regarded in the early 2000s that dealers in the U.S. tried to pass off other varieties as Canadian to fetch premium prices. Weed from the west coast carried cachet for being particularly potent, with small time growers perfecting their product to maintain the reputation.

It was a time when Canada’s Liberal government flirted with decriminalization, and the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that access to medical marijuana must be legally available.

It was a ruling that could have swung the laboratory door open into a new world of research on the therapeutic uses of the controversial treatment for everything from glaucoma to Crohn’s disease to cancer.

But those high times are over.

The door toward more research has remained shut, thanks in part to a lack of federal funding for medical research, while other countries that allow patients access to medical marijuana have pushed into new medical frontiers with customization of strains for specific patients.

Now, as a new multibillion-dollar industry buds in Canada, some of this country’s licensed producers are leaning on the expertise cultivated in other countries to help get their operations off the ground.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/20/medical-marijuana-canada-world_n...

Slumberjack wrote:

By the Numbers

Harper wrote:

It will not happen under our government

Mulcair wrote:

Legalization would be a mistake, because the information that we have right now is that the marijuana that's on the market is extremely potent and can actually cause mental illness

Hasn't done his homework. That research applies to adolescents with family history of certain mental illness. It wouldn't be affected by legalization for adults anyway.
If this is Mulcair trying to distinguish himself from Trudeau's position, that's just stupid politics, not good governance.
I was hopeful for the NDP in the next election. Now, not so much.

A friend of mine grew up in Florida in the 90s.  "BC Bud" was the most costly, but always available and highly regarded.

With Colorado and Washington legalizing, BC is losing a major chunk of its market in one of its biggest industries.

The price of weed has fallen 20% in BC in the last 2 years.