The things that go through my head

The NDP did not stand behind their candidates when they were being smeared based on their past open drug use on POT-TV. They got rid of Dana Larsen and Kirk Tousaw because of their connections to Marc Emery, the BC Marijuana Party and the drug policy reform community. Dana Larsen is the founder of eNDProhibition, a drug policy reform group within the NDP that calls for the end of the drug war. This group has done wonderful work getting the word out that the drug war is an important issue to all Canadian voters. Now what are we going to do? I don’t see how any self-respecting cannabis consumer could ever support them again.

Now the Liberals are flinging their monkey poo and demanding to know the NDP connections to the cannabis culture. They make it sound like they have something to be embarrassed about. Of course they took money from drug policy reform activists. There are many people living in Canada that are upset about the drug war and they vote. They also have jobs and put their money where their mouth is by donating to good causes, like political campaigns. I won’t be giving the NDP my money any time soon. I better stay out of politics, before I get contaminated.

You know, I didn’t want to turn this into drug blog but here I am ranting on my internet soap box about the unfairness of this smear campaign. Not happy. After this rally is over today, I promise to write about something else. No really, maybe I will take a picture of cute puppies and kittens and post that instead.

Who do I vote for now? I wonder if I should even waste my time. I just think that the NDP should have stood by their candidates. Now it’s going to be impossible for anybody who is guilty of the crime of ingesting politically incorrect drugs to ever be taken seriously in politics again. Are all politicians that have smoked pot going to be expelled from politics? Jack Layton was on POT-TV. Are these cowards going to stand by their leader when the mud starts to fly?

We are getting a two party state. The Reform and the PC’s and the Conservatives all managed to combine powers under one leader and the “left” will end up doing the same thing. Which means that anybody with so-called “far-left” views will be ignored. All those far-left hippies, with their concern for the environment, the promotion of drug use and organized crime and anti-war activists. BAH! As you can tell, I am very steamed by this unfortunate turn of events. I am so discouraged by the whole undemocratic system, that I just don’t see how I can stay tuned in.

Thanks to the highly successful reefer madness campaign of the past 100 or more years, anybody that makes the sensible choice to smoke a joint over drinking a beer or chewing bubble gum, is a criminal with guilt issues. And it seems to me that the reefer madness is growing all the time.

Consider these recent articles that I found on my MAP INC mailing list.

It’s enough to make a good cop cry! The author is whining because a guy with a backpack, I mean a dangerous drug dealer got away thanks to a bad ruling by a judge. The existence of drug prohibition is so ingrained that he fails to question the necessity of the police chasing down a random suspect in order to take 680 grams of cocaine and $1720 in cash. Don’t the police have better things to do?

Then there is this sordid tale of highway robbery by the legal system, covered by some sanctimonious twit that refers to a houseful of plants as a “clandestine cannabis grow op”. Apparently there is nothing wrong with seizing property because the owner chooses to grow the wrong plants. Why tell the truth, that a grow op is nothing more than a green house and any dangers related to grow ops would be eliminated by repealing the prohibition against growing this wonderful plant. The idiot ends the article with an ode to an addict who overcame his love of cocaine to win a gold medal at the Olympics. If social stigmas and banning from the sport he loves can “help” Eric Lamaze, why it will work on every addict.

Did you know that the RCMP are on their way to taking $5 million worth of marijuana off of the streets? It’s true. They are using their police plane to stop grow ops in Comox Valley, BC. They fly around in the air, spewing toxic waste into the environment, finding and destroying innocent plants. If this was a sane world, this would not be celebrated in a local newspaper but excoriated as the waste of tax money that it is. Instead, they celebrate it with prize quotes like this:

“What is grown up here is going to be sold in communities up and down Vancouver Island and possibly beyond, so there’s a benefit for all communities to see these destroyed and take that amount off the street.”

Maybe that cannabis was going to be used to make a cancer patients life easier. Or maybe it was going to be ingested by responsible adults as a cheap and effective insomnia cure. Nobody should be punished for ingesting a drug that has never caused a death in its’ use over thousands of years. But nobody seems to care about that.

I hate reefer madness propaganda so much.

I live in the riding of Conservative MP Carol Skelton. Like all Canadian conservative MP’s, she feels the need to fill my mailbox with spammy propoganda. I received the junkie spam in my mailbox. The blogosphere , as well as a Liberal MP, have done a good job of bringing attention to this garbage but I do feel that there needs to be a more scathing smack down of the faulty reasoning behind the following excerpt on the flyer:

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