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Sensible BC Director Dana Larsen is bringing his marijuana referendum campaign to Duncan.
"This is an issue whose time has come," he said. "Having Washington and Colorado vote to legalize last year and having the Union of BC Municipalities supporting legalization last year, the time has come but unfortunately having our politicians lagging behind the people on this one, we have to go to a referendum."
His Duncan visit is part of a whirlwind tour of Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast for the activist. He's visiting 15 towns in six days to promote the campaign action on legalization. He'll be at the Craig Street Brew Pub in Duncan starting at 7 p.m. Saturday evening, Aug. 24, looking to sign up canvassers and volunteers for the effort.
Larsen has prepared legislation called The Sensible Policing Act, which would effectively decriminalize marijuana by stopping B.C. police from making searches or arrests for simple possession.
His law would also call upon the federal government to repeal marijuana prohibition, so that B.C. can legally regulate its cultivation and sale.
The proposed law has been accepted by Elections BC, and Larsen will have 90 days to collect signatures from 10 per cent of the registered voters in every electoral district, beginning Monday, Sept. 9. But he needs registered canvassers to collect the votes; hence the drive to find those volunteers.
"It's easy to register as a canvasser," said Larsen. "It just takes two minutes to fill out the form for Elections BC."
More information is available online at SensibleBC.ca "We have supporters all over the province and definitely have some in Cowichan. We've got some local organizers in the area who have been doing a good job. I'm looking forward to meeting them and signing people up," Larsen said.
The period for signing up voters starts soon and Larsen expects his team to finish around Nov. 3 before sending in all the signatures in to Elections BC.
Canvassing is not hard. "There is no minimum number of signatures they have to get. I keep telling people if they can only collect 10 or 20 from their friends and family that's a great start," he said.
Canvassers are allowed to collect signatures in any public area so a sidewalk, or a park, or any public space is allowed.
"We've got about 60,000 people on Facebook and 50,000 on our email list. That's not all we need but that's a good head start to help get our people some easy signatures."
There are 85 electoral districts and the signatures needed range from 2,500 to 5,000 people, depending on the population. The campaign's total target for the province is half a million signatures. Larsen is "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome "This is by no means a done deal. It's a very, very complicated and huge effort that's involved but we are building up a lot of good awareness, a lot of good support. People are really getting excited about it. It's certainly possible but only if a lot more British Columbians come out and help us make history."
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: cowichanvalleycitizen.com
Author: Lexi Bainas
Contact: Contact Us - Cowichan Valley Citizen
Website: Pot campaign heads to Duncan - Living - Cowichan Valley Citizen
"This is an issue whose time has come," he said. "Having Washington and Colorado vote to legalize last year and having the Union of BC Municipalities supporting legalization last year, the time has come but unfortunately having our politicians lagging behind the people on this one, we have to go to a referendum."
His Duncan visit is part of a whirlwind tour of Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast for the activist. He's visiting 15 towns in six days to promote the campaign action on legalization. He'll be at the Craig Street Brew Pub in Duncan starting at 7 p.m. Saturday evening, Aug. 24, looking to sign up canvassers and volunteers for the effort.
Larsen has prepared legislation called The Sensible Policing Act, which would effectively decriminalize marijuana by stopping B.C. police from making searches or arrests for simple possession.
His law would also call upon the federal government to repeal marijuana prohibition, so that B.C. can legally regulate its cultivation and sale.
The proposed law has been accepted by Elections BC, and Larsen will have 90 days to collect signatures from 10 per cent of the registered voters in every electoral district, beginning Monday, Sept. 9. But he needs registered canvassers to collect the votes; hence the drive to find those volunteers.
"It's easy to register as a canvasser," said Larsen. "It just takes two minutes to fill out the form for Elections BC."
More information is available online at SensibleBC.ca "We have supporters all over the province and definitely have some in Cowichan. We've got some local organizers in the area who have been doing a good job. I'm looking forward to meeting them and signing people up," Larsen said.
The period for signing up voters starts soon and Larsen expects his team to finish around Nov. 3 before sending in all the signatures in to Elections BC.
Canvassing is not hard. "There is no minimum number of signatures they have to get. I keep telling people if they can only collect 10 or 20 from their friends and family that's a great start," he said.
Canvassers are allowed to collect signatures in any public area so a sidewalk, or a park, or any public space is allowed.
"We've got about 60,000 people on Facebook and 50,000 on our email list. That's not all we need but that's a good head start to help get our people some easy signatures."
There are 85 electoral districts and the signatures needed range from 2,500 to 5,000 people, depending on the population. The campaign's total target for the province is half a million signatures. Larsen is "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome "This is by no means a done deal. It's a very, very complicated and huge effort that's involved but we are building up a lot of good awareness, a lot of good support. People are really getting excited about it. It's certainly possible but only if a lot more British Columbians come out and help us make history."
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: cowichanvalleycitizen.com
Author: Lexi Bainas
Contact: Contact Us - Cowichan Valley Citizen
Website: Pot campaign heads to Duncan - Living - Cowichan Valley Citizen
