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The British Columbia Marijuana Party needs you! The British Columbia Marijuana Party:
The BC Marijuana Party believes that democratic societies such as Canada should allow for and provide individuals with the most freedom possible. The only legitimate criminal prohibitions relating to individual conduct are those necessary to prevent significant harm being done unto others. Marijuana prohibition is unjust and illegitimate, and must be repealed. The persecution of the cannabis community has had terrible consequences. We have criminalized millions of our fellow Canadians merely because they prefer cannabis to coffee, or wine. Along the way, we've spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying to stomp out drugs, succeeding only in creating a vast black market economy. Marijuana prohibition does not reduce demand, nor does it reduce supply. Prohibition is a completely failed social policy, yet our leaders – including the BC Liberal government – are not advocating for repeal. Instead, they want to ramp up prohibition, jail more people, seize more homes, take more children from parents, perpetuate anti-drug lies: simply put, a US-style War on Drugs, in Canada. This prohibitionist campaign does not end at persecuting merely the cannabis culture – other marginalized groups are victims of societal intolerance. The BCMP is ready to stand up for their rights. We are a party of inclusion. We respect people and our differences. We believe in justice. The BCMP also believes that government has a responsibility to the people, and must be accountable, because without accountability democracy becomes a tyranny run by the privileged minority, corporations, lobbyists, and big party machines. When a majority of Canadians favor reforming our marijuana laws but their wishes are ignored by the government, we have a party in power that is not accountable to the people. In British Columbia, it is time for change. The Liberal government should be calling for cannabis legalization, as marijuana is BC's biggest cash crop and a substantial number of residents earn their living in the cannabis trade. Canna-tourism is flourishing as BC's reputation for combining a beautiful tolerant environment spreads throughout the world – yet our friends and family continue to be persecuted and jailed, and instead of calling for their release, the BC Liberal government is scheming up new ways to persecute our culture and increasing funding for anti-marijuana initiatives. This must stop, and the BCMP is here to ensure that it does. With your help, we can win the fight against prohibition, and Canada can become an example for tolerant, compassionate, and fact-based cannabis policy worldwide. Overgrow the Government!
• Please join the party by visiting the BCMP Headquarters at Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters, 307 West Hastings Street, downtown Vancouver BC. Donate to the BCMP using the Paypal button on the right, or by sending checks or money orders to: BCMP, 307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 1H6. Residents of BC receive a lucrative provincial tax credit when they donate! The BC Marijuana Party is located at Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters (CCHQ) in the heart of beautiful Vancouver, BC. Inside you'll find the new BC Marijuana Party Headquarters, the BCMP Vapour Lounge. For a $5 donation to the BCMP, you can join and use a vaporizer in the comfort of our colourful, lively, and popular BCMP Vapour Lounge. You may even get the chance to meet Marc Emery if he takes a break from Cannabis Culture Magazine, produced in the basement of CCHQ where Pot.tv Studios is also based. Keep Canadians in Canada! Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, and Greg Williams (the BC3) are Canadian citizens who were heavily involved in anti-prohibition activism in Canada for more than ten years. The United States is attempting to extradite these Canadian cannabis activists to the a country they've never been to and stand trial to face up to life in US federal prison. This is an insult to Canadian sovereignty and citizens' rights. Here are five things that anyone can do to help prevent the BC3 from being extradited. Please take action and urge everyone you know to do the same. 1) Contact the Canadian Justice Minister Constantly! Canada's Justice Minister is currently Robert Nicholson of the Conservative Party. It is largely his decision whether Canada will extradite the BC3, and that decision could come in the next few months or years. No matter where you are in the world, please contact the Justice Minister every week - we definitely need consistent vocal and written support from Canadians, Americans and the international community. Weekly phone calls, faxes, and handwritten letters that are polite and concise are effective political pressure. The goal is to keep the Justice Department aware of the BC3 and the opposition to the extradition. Always be very polite, and say it would "shock your conscience" for Canadians to be extradited to the United States, a country they never went to, especially when the alleged crimes would not receive a jail sentence in Canada - and, if they have broken the law in Canada, they should be tried in Canada. When sending a letter, ask for a response from the Justice Minister. Phone: (613) 957-4222 Fax: (613) 990-7255 Mailing Address: The Honourable Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 284 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0H8 2) Contact The Media Please contact the following newspapers with a new letter every week, or every month. Send a short letter under 200 words that offers quick facts about the American efforts to extradite the BC3, why you oppose it, and why others should too. Don't send mass emails to all of the media, but email each individually. Write different letters about the same topic, or respond to an article that relates to the extradition battle. A number of Canadian newspaper emails are listed here, but a complete list of media outlets is available thanks to the Media Awareness Project at www.mapinc.org/resource/email.html National Post: letters@nationalpost.com Globe & Mail: letters@globeandmail.ca Vancouver Sun: sunletters@png.canwest.com Vancouver Province: provletters@png.canwest.com Victoria Times Colonist: letters@tc.canwest.com Vancouver Courier: editor@vancourier.com Burnaby Now: editorial@burnabynow.com Calgary Herald: letters@theherald.canwest.com Calgary Sun: callet@calgarysun.com Edmonton Journal: letters@thejournal.canwest.com Edmonton Sun: mailbag@edm.sunpub.com Regina Leader-Post: letters@leaderpost.canwest.com Hamilton Spectator: letters@thespec.com Kamloops this week: ktw@bcnewsgroup.com Kamloops Daily News: kamloopsnews@telus.net Kelowna Capital News: edit@kelownacapnews.com Langley Advance: editorial@langleyadvance.com Langley Times: newsroom@langleytimes.com Lethbridge Herald: letters@ac403.com London Free Press: letters@lfpress.com Montreal Gazette: letters@thegazette.canwest.com Ottawa Citizen: letters@thecitizen.canwest.com Ottawa Sun: oped@ott.sunpub.com Saskatoon Star Phoenix: spnews@sp.canwest.com Toronto Sun: editor@tor.sunpub.com Victoria News: vicnews@vinewsgroup.com Whitehorse Star: letters@whitehorsestar.com Winnipeg Free Press: letters@freepress.mb.com</ a> Winnipeg Sun: editor@wpgsun.com Windsor Star: letters@thestar.canwest.com 3) Contact your Member of Parliament and Member of Legislative Assembly If you are in Canada, then contact both your MP and your MLA by phone, mail, and email. Try to make an appointment for a personal visit for even more impact. Ask your representative to voice public opposition to the extradition requests. Tell your MP and MLA that Canada should not be sending Canadian activists to face life imprisonment in foreign countries when the accused persons never went to the requesting country and the accused crimes are not considered to be a jail-worthy offence in Canada. Remind them that the Canadian Government knowingly collected taxes from Marc Emery's seed sale income for a decade, and that Marc Emery is the leader of a legitimate political party, operated business openly and honestly, dealt only with consenting adults, caused no harm, kept no weapons or drugs, and once received a monetary fine for selling cannabis seeds in Canada - not prison, which the US seeks. Find your MLA at the following websites and your MP at www.parl.gc.ca. Alberta: www.assembly.ab.ca Saskatchewan: www.legassembly.sk.cas Manitoba: www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/members ON: electionsontario.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp Quebec: www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/membres/index.html Newfoundland: www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/members Nova Scotia: www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/members PEI: www.assembly.pe.ca/members/index.php NB: app.infoaa.7700.gnb.ca/gnb/pub/listmla1.asp 4) Donate Or Make Purchases Marc, Michelle and Greg are accumulating expensive legal bills in order to fight the extradition. They are still determined to help the movement by spreading awareness about the drug war through the BC Marijuana Party, Cannabis Culture Magazine, Pot.tv, and the CCHQ store as always, but need legal fee support in this trying time. Please consider donating to or buying from the BC Marijuana Party (www.bcmarijuanaparty.com), Cannabis Culture Magazine (www.cannabisculture.com/newstore), or Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters store (307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, 604-682-1172). 5) Rally in your community If you are in Canada, then try to put on a rally in your community to protest this incursion of the US Drug War into Canada. The focus of your rally should be that Canadians within Canada are not subject to US law and should not be extradited. US consulate offices are a good place to rally at, as are Canadian government buildings, and even parks and downtown areas. Please contact us at the BC Marijuana Party and Cannabis Culture Magazine to let us know what you are up to, and we can help promote your event. Use your rally to demonstrate that Canadian courts have decided selling marijuana seeds is a trivial offence that nets a fine, not prison time, and the Canadian government steadily collected sizable taxes from Marc Emery's seed sales for over 10 years. If Emery has broken the law in Canada then he should be charged and tried in Canada. If he has not broken laws in Canada then he should absolutely not be extradited to the US for a life sentence in US prison. Send any mail to “No Extradition” 307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 1H6, Canada Please Donate or Buy a "No Extradition" T-Shirt at the CC Store! Download the 2-sided "No Extradition" handout! *UPDATED August 2007 Download the "No Extradition" Petition! Download a high-resolution PDF of the "No Extradition" logo! Want updates and discussion? Go to the CC "No Extradition" forum! Watch the "DEA Raid Emery Seeds" collection of news clips YouTube.com |
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