Canada's Tolerance for Marijuana Eroding
Canada Plans to Get Tough on Marijuana
marijuanamilitia.com — Automatic Jail time for Marijuana and Hash
In a thinly veiled attempt to adopt an American policy towards drug control Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his “Conservative” government are leading Canada, yet again in a direction it would rather not go.
Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling for a cultural shift, to be enforced by what his political opponents are calling an American-style war on drugs. He has introduced legislation that would set mandatory minimum jail sentences for marijuana growers and traffickers, and he is seeking more money for enforcement and prosecution.
The goal of enforcement and prosecution is to once again criminalize the small producer of marijuana, as well as the small time user.
With legislation through Bill C-26 being tabled that would require a judge to impose a minimum prison sentence of 6 months for manufacturing hash oil, or even passing a joint to a friend. Canada is setting itself up for an American style Prison Economy. Every Citizen labeled and numbered.
In what is proving to be an escalating war of words Stephen Harper has been quoted as saying “What we are up against…is a culture that since the 1960s has at the minimum not discouraged drug use and often romanticized it or made it cool, made it acceptable,”
Throwing acceptable medical research, and user testimony as well as a report from Canada’s own senate out the window. Canada’s law makers have for years advised against criminalizing marijuana and have even advised that the DARE program be scrapped and that drug education should not be taught by law enforcement officers.
What the Canadian Prime Minister fails to realize, is that we are wise to his ways and we will not stop until Marijuana is complete decriminalized and unstigmatized. Stop the insanity Mr. Prime Minister, or there is no way we can attach the word honorable to anything you do or are.
From the Senatorial Report:
In a free and democratic society, which recognizes fundamentally but not exclusively the rule of law as the source of normative rules and in which government must promote autonomy insofar as possible and therefore make only sparing use of the instruments of constraint, public policy on psychoactive substances must be structured around guiding principles respecting the life, health, security and rights and freedoms of individuals, who, naturally and legitimately, seek their own well-being and development and can recognize the presence, difference and equivalence of others.
Senate Recommendations
Production for personal use
Amend the Act to create a criminal exemption scheme to the criminal offenses provided in the CDSA in order to permit the personal production of cannabis so long as it is not sold for consideration or exchange in kind or other and not advertised or promoted in any other way. In addition, quantities shall be limited to ensure production is truly for personal consumption
Remember - Down with BILL C-26 and Down with the Conservative Government of Canada.
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WHY A NEW THREAD ??? MATTHEW
Greetings Matthew,
Why isn't this just added to your other cannabis thread?
It should be ? Maybe? Or even Jim's?
Where he in fact questioned some of your statements?
Last month I met with my MP (liberal)during Canada's National Day of Protest Against Bill C-26 (and C-2) he said he will get it sent to an all party committee and have me come to Ottawa to speak to the committee .....well that's what he said.
I think it is only going to be solved by us Greens anyway
It is in my opinion after 17 years trying to clear my name and re- legalize cannabis too hot an issue for the main stream and cowardly old parties.
It (bill C - 26 ) only hurts Canadian children so it may not be that important to them ...remember.
Cheers
juror.ca
endprohibition@telus.net
The problem with adding to threads
Is that the issue is then barely noticed.
Also the relevancy at hand, due to the urgency needed for Bill C-26. It's a draconian series of steps backwards. At a time when other countries are updating there Marijuana laws to now include hash and oil and various other extracts and tinctures, we choose to once again turn our backs on science and nature. We continue to lump it in with the narcotics such as Methyl amphetamine. Let's not even get into the advancements on brain doping at the moment.
Science is just now starting to once again investigate the potential of the natural world around us, yet it's still a fight to be able to partake of a substance with thousands of years of proven beneficial use?
I am afraid most people aren't quite prepared to realize what stronger drug laws do for a country. The problem with laws specifically aimed at Cannabis and its many forms, is that they are based completely on inaccuracies, lies and propaganda. In Alberta now the province is allowed to seize your children, as apparently Grow Rooms are cancer causing environments and hazardous to a child's health. It's a strange world we live in when plants can kill and the government can storm your house under the suspicion of growing marijuana and seize your children as a preemptive measure.
Since the dawn of time humans and animals, have had the urge to alter there conscience and intoxicate themselves, we find it fun, enlightening, and sometimes amazingly, even healing.
The overturning of the Cannabis laws in particular shine a light on government and a time period where bad laws were created, and even worse people were in charge. What this means is that its yet another unfortunate part of our past that we have to stand up for and admit we were wrong, and that we have been wrong before. It's like the times of Copernicus and the Catholic Church, and having to convince the world. Unfortunately when it comes to the evil Marijuana they still want to burn us up at the stake and lock us away for being criminals, its a plan, and if it works for them it proves to be rather effective.
Look at the attempts to turn it into a prison based economy. An economy where there is a large deal of money being made by the privatization of the prison system. Imagine a hotel packed to capacity and then being able to put 3 to 4 people to a room, who wouldn't like that line of business. Especially if the guests are guaranteed to stay for a minimum of six months. Take a look at the billions of dollars now spent on the private prison industry in the united states, oh forgive me, we also have to remember to include "Detention Centers". Now imagine yourself paying to keep all those pot heads with a few plants in the closet, eating 3 sqaures a day and watching tv at about $50 a head. I don't like that idea, let alone the fact that someone can still be fired from work for smoking a joint on a day off.
The issue is no longer about "pot heads" rights, its about an individuals right to judge for themselves based on facts, versus having governments essentially lie directly to them.
It's a slippery slope and recently they've been pushing us closer to the edge.
You mentioned I should have added to Jim's post @ http://www.greenparty.ca/en/node/2990 it is unfortunately titled: Conservatives Attack GPC: 55% Canadians Side with Green Party's Unique Position and I didn't realize it was another marijuana article.
Oh and to the detractors on supporting Marijuana. I say "Boo". Boo to you and your ilk for being ashamed to be associated with us, for not accepting that we are just as beneficial as yourself to society, sometimes even more so.
Did you know... FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA over 50 years ago? Go figure ...
Sometimes we need to be a little more aware of the world around us and its abilities to make us a little more aware of itself.
Cheers,
M.
Matthew Smith
CEO - Green Party of Canada - Saskatchewan PD
msmith@greenparty.ca / soop@soop.ca
http://www.soop.ca
Some Greens are even afraid of the cannabis issue
Hi Matthew,
Yes I am aware of Crick and many others like Arther Conan Doyle who wrote Sherlock Holmes well he used cocaine for 30 years...imagine all these police thinking this guy was some great cop mastermind when really his coke inducted paranoia just gave him new ideas.
And yes it was strange to see even Jim not mentioning why the conservatives were attacking us in that thread and imagine if it had the proper title or mentioned cannabis in it. They must have not wanted to have cannabis on top of the blogs as the electric car thing is linked else where to get a huge number of hits. It apparently looks better to some Greens than a cannabis thread leading discussion as I said.
Political parties, even us are really afraid of dealing with issues that affect what some consider weak individuals.
Jim and others wants the support but don't really want to spread the Green policy out of fear.....Maybe?
Sad they can not understand why cannabis threads get all those hits and why we will win seats for being brave.
juror.ca
endprohibition@telus.net
The Marijuana Party
What's wrong with people thinking we're the Marijuana Party, or the blue party, the green party, the yellow party .... So long as they think we're the party for them I don't care what type of party they think we're having.
Toga! Toga!
Matthew Smith
CEO - Green Party of Canada - Saskatchewan PD
msmith@greenparty.ca / soop@soop.ca
http://www.soop.ca