Police want pot crusader barred from stations

edmontoncanada.com ^ | 8.12.03 | Derrick Penner

[freepatriot32]

Shaughn Butts, The Journal / Followers look on as Marc Emery smokes up Sunday.

EDMONTON - Wearing a conservative blue suit, B.C. marijuana activist Marc Emery lit up a water pipe in front of Edmonton police headquarters Sunday afternoon and was promptly arrested.

The leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party contends poss ession laws no longer exist because of recent Ontario court decisions.

Before lighting up, Emery said the fact that people can be political and take action makes Canada "the greatest place on Earth."

Two Edmonton police constables stepped into the crowd and led Emery inside, to a chorus

of boos and jeers from about three dozen supporters who decried the arrest as unconstitutional.

Federal Crown prosecutors have told Edmonton police that laws prohibiting marijuana possession are still in effect, said Insp. Dick Shantz. Officers charged Emery with a single count of pot possession.

Police also tried to stop Emery's campaign by asking that a Canadawide ban preventing him from going to police stations unless he has a legitimate complaint be made one condition of his release.

"We're getting tired of dealing with him," Shantz said. "He's tying up our manpower with his illegal crusade and we're not going to put up with it."

Others were also smoking marijuana but Shantz said no one else was arrested because police did not have the manpower.

Emery, publisher of the magazine Cannabis Culture, was arrested in Calgary on Saturday.

He was earlier arrested in Winnipeg, Regina, Moncton, N.B., and St. John's, Nfld. He was not arrested at stops this summer in Toronto and Charolettetown, P.E.I.

dpenner@thejournal.canwest.com

[Sir Gawain]

Yet another righteous observation with someone who morally equates laws against mind destroying drugs with slavery.

Pssst....don't generalize. It weakens your argument. Marijuana does not kill brain cells. Alcohol does. You should specify which "mind destroying" drugs you're talking about.

[Sir Gawain]

Marijuana was legal for quite some time in this country. Are you willing to say that drug use has decreased since marijuana was made illegal?

[Protagoras]

Provide evidence to the contrary or accept it as fact

LOL, nice try dopey.

You beat you wife everyday. Provide evidence to the contrary or accept it as fact.

Pro Drug activists than yourself

I hate drugs as much as I hate liars, like you. Moral slob.

[presidio9]

pssst> Marijuana has been conclusively linked to scizophrenia.

[presidio9]

Once again: It is a FACT drinking fell during Prohibition. You strongest desires can not change that FACT.

[Protagoras]

To: Sir Gawain
Please provide evidence for your research.

Provide evidence to the contrary or accept it as fact.

LOL, funny how quickly your own words show what a goof you truly are. As well as a liar and a moral slob.

[Protagoras]

Once again: It is a FACT false that drinking fell during Prohibition. You strongest desires can not change that FACT.

[Last Visible Dog]

For the purposes of this thread, I have no opinion on the legality of alcohol. I will, however, point out that alcohol use fell by 50% during Prohibition.

But crime related to alcohol increased by 100%. Which would you like: more criminals or more people that use mood altering substances?

[PaxMacian]

My answer was not dishonest. Rather, it was the correct meaning as used in biblical context. Otherwise, as you have noted the broader primary definition or rather scientific classification may include indigestible items. In choosing this definition as your interpretation it is as if you are using science and deceptive word play to call God a liar.

My answer was not self serving. It should be a duty for freedom loving Republicans to keep government from imposing upon individuals, through force and coercion, arbitrary puritanical beliefs that are contrary to established religious facts, beliefs and scripture.

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time;
the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1774.

It is simple fascist ignorance to believe that this herb bearing a seed is just a weed to be eradicated when it just so happens that its seed contains the most complete and absorbable combination of amino acids required by the human body for sustenance of any plant on the face of Earth

It was God which gave us free will.
Satan, the adversary, attempts to make us use it adversely to the will of God. Since God made herb, saw that it was good and gave it to man then those that wish to eradicate it are opposed to the will of God.

[Last Visible Dog]

So now you know more about drug use than Ozzie, who says that pot use led his son jack to try harder drugs?

Abusing chemicals for most of one’s life does not make one a Chemist.

Being a psychotic does not make one a Psychiatrist.

[Last Visible Dog]

So drugs are potentially bad for you then?

Life in general is potentially bad for you since we all die.

[Last Visible Dog]

Sure, and more and more people are pro-war on drugs too. Contrary to your naive brush-offs, I have a lot of first hand drug addicts. All of them started with pot. Many can not stand alcohol.

Just because someone that is willing to use hard drugs also used pot does not prove a causal relationship.

Let’s examine other correlations

All users of hard drugs have a beating heart. Unlike pot use – the correlation between people with beating hearts and hard drug use is a perfect 100% therefore having a beating hearts leads to hard drug use. (BTW: there is 0% hard drug use among people that do not have beating hearts).

Starting to see the folly of unwarranted correlations?

[Last Visible Dog]

Spelling is the last refuge of people with no intelligent rejoinder in this forum.

Claiming people are on drugs is the second to the last refuge of people with no intellegent rejoinder in this forum.

[headsonpikes]

Laws against 'mind-destroying drugs'(LOL!) are not morally equivalent to slavery.

Nor are laws against possession of fire-arms morally equivalent to cannibalism.

One really must learn to make distinctions - it's the first sign of practical intelligence.

[Stew Padasso]

"Less people drank during Prohibition."

Are you going to lobby our elected officials to bring back alcohol prohibition?

[presidio9]

Claiming people are on drugs is the second to the last refuge of people with no intellegent rejoinder in this forum.

Riiight... So why am I the only one making intelligent points here. Either you guys are all stupid, your stance has no defensible merit, or you are all under the influence of some mind altering substance. Which is it?

[presidio9]

Are you going to lobby our elected officials to bring back alcohol prohibition?

Not at all. Just pointing out the stupidity of potheads who think Prohibition was repealed because it wasn't working. It was repealed because a majority of Americans wanted alcohol legal.

[Last Visible Dog]

You agree claiming people are on drugs is the second to last refuge of people with no intelligent rejoinder in this forum and then in the same message you speculate that everybody that does not agree with your opinion must be stupid or on drugs.

Amazing.

[presidio9]

"Riiight..." = sarcasm.


Look into it.

[Last Visible Dog]

Not at all. Just pointing out the stupidity of potheads who think Prohibition was repealed because it wasn't working. It was repealed because a majority of Americans wanted alcohol legal.

Let me get this straight, are you claiming alcohol prohibition was a great success? And you have the nerve to speculate that other people may be stupid.