U S Shouldn't Stone Us For Pot Use

[SirBlazinBowl]

"The Yankees are coming!" Unlike Paul Revere's famous American ride to warn of the invading British, no one is listening in Canada. Canadians are either too stoned or they are hoping that someone will toss Marc Emery, Canada's "Prince of Pot," in jail to rot.

Emery, the leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party, was busted on July 9 by U.S. drug enforcement agents for selling marijuana seeds to people by mail. Don't get me wrong. If these agents had enticed Emery over the border ( with a tray of brownies, perhaps? ) he would have been fair game, but the American government has no right to send police to Canada to arrest one of our citizens for something that is considered to be quasi-legal in Canada.

The B.C. Court of Appeal said in a recent decision that a two-year sentence for growing 100 marijuana plants was too harsh and imposed probation instead. Emery, and his two co-accused, face 10 years to life if convicted.

If marijuana is legal for a segment of society, those people should be able to obtain it. It seems that there is a bit of a problem with supplying good quality marijuana to those with prescriptions, which has been legal in Canada since July 2001.

Marijuana is difficult to obtain through your local pharmacy. It has been widely reported that in the past, when people called Health Canada to complain about this lack, they were directed to Emery's web site ( Can you say hypocritical? ).

While the majority of Canadians are ambivilant about pot smokers, some in this area have strong feelings about smoking pot.

Erika Kubassek, Cambridge's outspoken morality squad commander, said during an interview with The Kitchener Record on October 9, 1998 that people who advocate such things as marijuana for medicinal purposes "want to have free killing, free drugs, free sex, free everything, and then you have total hell on Earth."

On the other hand, The Church of the Universe ( who were once based in Cambridge ), claim that marijuana is a holy sacrament. They further push zealotic buttons by saying that Christ was a pothead.

They "prove" this by pointing to the ancient recipe for anointing oil for priests, recorded in the Old Testament book of Exodus ( 30: 22-23 ), which included over nine pounds of flowering cannabis tops, Hebrew "kaneh-bosm."

I spoke to Reverand Tucker from the Church about Emery.

"A travesty," Tucker told me.

"This is a weather vane. It could be the defining issue for Canada's future."

Whether the roads to heaven or hell are paved in pot can't be easily answered, but one thing is for certain.

We can't allow the Americans to walk in and threaten our sovereignty by dictating what our laws should be. What's next, our same sex marriage laws or ( gasp! ) our female bare breast laws?

Where's Carolyn Parrish, the Bush bashing M.P. when we need her?

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use."

- Jimmy Carter, 1977 -

Newshawk: SirBlazinBowl (420Times.com)
Source: Cambridge Times (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 Fairway Newspaper Group
Contact: jhurst@cambridgetimes.ca
Website: http://www.cambridgetimes.ca
Author: Scot Ferguson

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Every Canadian Pothead should do his/her bit and at least get in touch with their MP and tell them that as tax payers they have already paid for extensive studies and enquiries that recommend to LEGALISE the stuff (not only decriminalise).Those,entrusted with this,were considered wise and competent and had the best interest of the country in mind .It is time to stop the politicking and trying to appease the US drug goons.My next letter is to the Prime Minister.This nonsense has to stop.Unless you're making pile of money from the Prohibition,every Canadian should see that it is in their best interest that this be resolved soon;otherwise we will end-up having the damned US administration setting-up shop in our country.