Prince of Pot ordered to U.S.

A five-year battle by Canada's self-styled “Prince of Pot” to avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges appeared to be over Monday.

The federal justice minister has ordered Marc Emery surrendered to American authorities, the final step in the legal process.

Emery, who was charged in the U.S. in 2005 in connection with his Vancouver-based seed-selling business, had turned himself in to sheriffs earlier in the morning to await the federal justice minister's decision.

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Global Marijuana March 2010

The following is taken from the Green Party of Canada policy document 'Vision Green'. I've posted this because on Saturday the 12th of May it's the Toronto Global Marijuana March. Toronto Centre Federal Green Party Candidate Ellen Michelson will be speaking at the event.  I hope you will join us, and consider supporting the Green Party in the next election if you, like me, would prefer legal weed.

Our Vision

After analyzing the recommendation of the Canadian Senate’s 2002 Special Committee on Drugs and the examples of strategies used by some European countries, the Green Party of Canada has come to the conclusion that it is time to legalize the adult use of marijuana. Furthermore, the Greens believe that drug addictions should be treated as a health problem, more than a criminal offence.

Argentina & Legal Pot

The supreme court in Argentina has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption.

The decision follows a case of five young men who were arrested with a few marijuana cigarettes in their pockets.

But the court said use must not harm others and made it clear it did not advocate a complete decriminalisation.

Correspondents say there is a growing momentum in Latin America towards decriminalising drugs for personal use.

The Argentine court ruled that: "Each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the state."

Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti said private behaviour was legal, "as long as it doesn't constitute clear danger".

"The state cannot establish morality," he said. Source: BBC News

I think this is a good decision. Although they have not made dope completely legal they have made it so that police and court resources can be freed up so they may be put to better use solving more serious crime.

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Phelphs Pot Probe Postponed

I read this morning that the sherriff investigating the Michael Phelps pot smoking debacle will not be pressing any charges, on Phelps or anyone else at the party.

I also read that Advertising Age is reporting that Subway restaurants are going ahead with plans to use Phelps as their pitchman. I guess America is not quite as obtuse as I thought.

In our Phelps Pot Poll, 100% of respondents thought Phelps pot smoking was no big deal.

Provincial America: How sweet!

Is it just me or is America stuck in a bit of a time warp? Come on people get real and join the rest of the world in the 21st century. Really, who cares about a few college kids and Michael Phelps smoking dope?

It seems the facist pigs, I mean, the Richland County Sheriff's Office have charged two people, the guys who were renting the house where the pot party occurred.

According to one of the lawyers representing one of the accused in the heinous crime, "After they arrested him, they didn't ask him, 'Where did you get the marijuana?' or 'Who sold it to you?' Almost all the questions they asked him were about Michael Phelps."

The lawyers would not name their clients, who each face up to 30 days in jail and a US$200 fine if convicted on the pending charges.

You can read the full story at Yahoo! News.

Canada Green Party leader sorry for not smoking pot

Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May apologized on Wednesday for never having smoked marijuana, as she unveiled her election plank, which touts legalizing and taxing pot.
"I am not a fan of marijuana use," May told reporters at a campaign stop in Halifax, televised nationally. "I've never used marijuana. I apologize."
The Green Party in its policy document said decades-old marijuana prohibition "has utterly failed and has not led to reduced drug use in Canada."
Rather, prohibition has led to costly policing to combat its distribution, "criminalizing youth and fostering organized crime," it argues.
Going further than former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien's 2002 pledge to decriminalize marijuana that was twice foiled by US protests, the Green Party says it supports cannabis sales to adults through licensed distributors.
As well, the party would like to see "small, independent growers" thrive, and the government taxing the weed at the same rate as tobacco, generating an estimated one billion dollars Canadian (931 million US) annually.

Crazy Pot Smokers

Marijuana is one of the most commonly used drugs in the world. According to the 2007 UN World Drug Report, 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 through 64, approximately five million people, smoked pot or used another marijuana product in 2006.

Read the full article at CBC here.

No emphysema diagnosis for pot heads?

A new study found that "chronic users of marijuana were less likely to be diagnosed with emphysema, a chronic and progressive disease of the lungs which leads to shortness of breath." Read the full story at the CBC here.

Judge rules Canada's pot possession laws unconstitutional

A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada's pot possession laws are unconstitutional after a man argued the country's medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed.

The 29-year-old Toronto resident had been charged with possession of about 3.5 grams or roughly $45 dollars worth of marijuana.

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Happy 4/20 Everyone!

I don't know the source of the following, my boyfriend sent it to me:

It is widely accepted that in 1971, a group of teenagers at San Rafael HighSchool in San Rafael, California, calling themselves "The Waldos", used tomeet every day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the LouisPasteur statue. The term became part of their group's salute, "420 Louis,"and it eventually caught on more widely. Many cannabis users continue toobserve 4:20 as a time to smoke communally. By extension April 20 ("4/20" inU.S. has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather tocelebrate and consume cannabis.)There are also many apocryphal urban legends attempting to explain theorigin of the term. Two of the most common of these are that 420 refers tothe number of active ingredients in cannabis, or that it is police dispatchcode for cannabis. In actual fact there are around 315 active chemicals incannabis, varying depending on the exact plant used, and 420 has never beenverified as the police dispatch code for anything in any locale.