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Marc Emery with Special Guest Marc 'Boris' St. Maurice
Prince of Pot with Pot-TV
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2 hr 8 min |
| Date Entered: |
29 Nov 2003 |
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9.10 (32 votes) |
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3215 |
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(You may need to upload the latest version of Realplayer to view this show). Marc Emery President of the BC Marijuana Party and President of the Federal Marijuana Party Marc Boris' St. Maurice discuss whether or not Marijuana Party members would be better off joining the NDP next Federal election, in order to attain their goal of cannabis legalization. Email questions@pot-tv.net to put your two cents into this facinating political debate.
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Resigning from the Federal Marijuana Party ...
FlashGordon,
Thu May 27 23:52:20 2004
After consulting with Marc Emery and being assured of Jack Layton and Libby Davis's commitment in ending prohibition and regulating marijuana raising it from the black market and underground and having met with Mark and Paul and heard thier "fundraising plans" I have decided to defect to the NDP and put my efforts into promoting the www.ndpot.com website and putting efforts to find 20 friends to vote with me as every www.bcmarijuanaparty.com member is going to try to do.
Although I think highly of Boris St Maurice of the www.marijuanaparty.com and admire his first class activism in the East I cannot afford to risk a "ralph nader' when the votes for the NDP could be so close. I will not therefore being attending the 'press conferance between 1pm and 2pm at 1149 Main St Friday the 30th. I will telephone Boris in Quebec with my resignation.
Re: Marc Emery with Special Guest Marc 'Boris' St. Maurice
GanjaGardener420,
Sun Dec 7 13:11:11 2003
Looking at what is happening in politics now, it is quite clear that being divided (when two parties are in agreement over what they want done) can horibly impact both parties chances of success. For this reason, we need to, as a comunity, decided if we want to support the MJ party or the NDP.
If 50% of activists support the MJ party and the other half NDP I do not foresee favourable results. The MJ party will come no where near the vote quota they need to recieve some money to fund further activisim. Also a statistic (allbeit misleading, but when has that stoped the prohibitionist from presenting such things) will be created that shows the MJ party is loseing support from election to election. At the same time the NDP will have less chance of winning seats and pushing this issue if they are for real. Even if they arn't it will be clear to all politicians that there arn't really votes to be gained by supporting legalizion because people who support it will still throw thier vote at a party that will never win a seat.
So here is the solution I prepose. Poll everyone who would be voteing MJ party if the NDP had not come out with this new policy. If the majority favour supporting the NDP then we should absolutely NOT have MJ canadaites to vote for and the MJ party should encourage all thier supporters to vote NDP. If the opposite is true then everyone should continue to support the MJ party. I cant think of any way to force the second outcome as the NDP isnt going to disband and tell everyoen to vote MJ party if that is what we decide:P
As a final note this poll should be conducted on a riding by riding basis as it might perhaps be wise to run MJ party canadiates in Quebec but not elsewhere since the NDP has such minimal support there.
Re: Marc Emery with Special Guest Marc 'Boris' St. Maurice
liberty,
Thu Dec 4 03:15:23 2003
I would say you should go along with the NDP for this election, as long as they keep the pot issue on the front burner. As they back away from that, you should back away from them. If a particular NDP candidate does not have the pot issue on his or her burner, I would warn them on it and then run a candidate against that person if that NDP candidate doesn't at least move the issue towards his or her front burner. Certainly I'd run a candidate against any NDP candidate who flip flopped on the issue, and if the NDP leadership doesn’t understand that, you know what you are dealing with at that point.
I hear exactly what Boris is saying. I’ve heard this all before too sucker. Socialist lie. Socialist do not care about liberty, they only say that to suck people in. It’s a very very old trick. Socialism is popular because people don’t want responsibility. All socialist, I don’t care how good they themselves or other people think they are, create a vacuum of power for people worse than Randy White to operate in. If not while in office certainly after have finished their term. It’s just a matter of time before they creep in. The problem has never ever been the abuse of power. The problem has always been and always will be the power to abuse.
Having said that, given time, legalizing pot would be about the biggest step in changing the world for the better and getting it off this path of destruction it is hell bent on going down. Everybody seemed to agree that is the paramount issue by all means possible. You have to influence the people that are making the laws at the time to accomplish that in any case scenario. Once pot is legalized I don’t think there is any turning it back for them, because after people see the sky not fall down in this day and age of information their lies won’t grow wings with near enough people to take off and fly again.
I could for sure be wrong, but I think Jack Layton gave himself away and threw out his warning flag to you when he blew out of his lips the current politically correct terminology “modernization of our pot laws”. “Wonderful plant” kind of made up for it though.
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