From: [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/10/cv-election-votecompass-law-order.html[/url]
Major political parties on marijuana
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[b]New Democratic Party[/b]
New Democrats believe in [...] Decriminalizing marijuana possession with the goal of removing its production and distribution from the control of organized crime.
Source: Investing in a Canada where No One is Left Behind
[b]Green Party[/b]
Green Party MPs will [...] Legalize marijuana by removing marijuana from the drug schedule.
Source: Ending the war on drugs (January 2011)
[b]Bloc Québécois[/b]
Google translation:
We have tabled a parliamentary motion backed by 88% of the MPs asked the government to legalize the medical use of marijuana. Source: Bloc Québécois election platform, 2004
[b]Conservative Party[/b]
When it comes to drugs, police officers and parents agree: we don’t need more of them on our streets. The increase in the production and distribution of hard drugs is well documented. And if we legalize drugs like marijuana, it will make it easier for our children to get hold of it.
That is why [the Harper] government is opposed to legalizing drugs — especially because of the damage it can do to our cities and our communities because of increased addiction and crime.
Instead, we will get drugs off the streets, away from our children and clean up our communities by: Ensuring mandatory minimum prison sentences and large fines are given out to marijuana grow operators and drug dealers; Introducing a national drug strategy, including a nationwide awareness campaign to discourage our youth from getting hooked on drugs in the first place; And not re-introducing the Liberal government’s marijuana decriminalization legislation.
Source: Conservative Government Plans to Fight Crime (April 3, 2006)
[b]Liberal Party[/b]
The Liberal Party believes that possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use should be decriminalized. That is what we attempted to achieve while in government, and we continue to believe that decriminalizing such possession would be a more sensible drug policy for our young people and would allow for better uses of police resources. Source: Correspondence (March 18, 2011)[/quote]
[b]tldr; Don't vote Conservative[/b]
Vote green party.
Honestly, if you ask me Liberal or New Democratic seems to be the better choice. Sure you don't get it fully legalized, but do you REALLY think it's a good idea to vote based purely on one issue?
God the conservative rhetoric makes me want to fucking puke. I'm getting depressed that the current polls show a possible majority government for the cons. I thought canada was some inviolate bastion of intelligence and reason compared to our southern neighbors but apparently we're all dipshits who actually think that the answer to society's problems is to fund a "nationwide awareness campaign to discourage our youth from getting hooked on drugs in the first place".
I feel such an awful tension in my chest when I realize that there's a large portion of the human race that buys into this trash. Let's fear the unknown and blame the unfamiliar for our problems because if we just believe in family values and the importance of enrolling your children in team sports at a young age, everything will turn out fine. Also keep in mind Stephen Harper is the most openly religious candidate.
As long as it's at the very least decriminalized. I believe that after a while of it being decriminalized the status quo on the use of marijuana will change.
I don't smoke Cannabis. but in the ACt, if your caught smoking, you get a Simple Cannabis Offense Notice. A fine and a drug course. No perm record either.
holy shit i didnt realise literally every major party except the tories was for MJ.
GET
THEM
OUT OF HERE
Fucking Tories, I want to carve swastikas into their foreheads.
I'm too young to vote.
Green Party.
Green Party erryday all day.
Please legalize/decrim canada, it will show the rest of the world how legalisation doesn't result total social degeneration and/or anarchy.
Fuck decriminalization, I want legality.
It would be much easier to obtain even if you're underage, I'm having trouble finding chops right now.
Very useful, thanks.
I just don't get that people think decriminalizing cannabis is the cause for the "downfall of society/the children". I'm from The Netherlands, and over here marijuana has never been illegal, and we certainly don't have anarchy or social degeneration. If you really want to stop the production or sale of drugs, you'd have to either kill everyone that uses drugs, or have half of the people in a country fighting dealers and growers. But even then, drugs will never get stopped. There will always be someone who continues to produce them. I say, legalize all drugs or no drugs. Either legalize marijuana, and MDMA, PCP and all the other drugs that exist, or make every drug, including alcohol, cigs, caffeine and even tea illegal. This whole softdrug versus harddrug is all bullshit. Alcohol is much more dangerous than marijuana, and yet alcohol is legal. That just doesn't make sense. I've known people who were hospitalized at 13 years old because of alcohol poisening, but i've never known someone who got into a hospital using so called "harddrugs". It's just the government trying to abuse their power, because they just can't regulate it. It's too easy to produce. But that's also the reason why the "war on drugs" will never work. Everyone could be growing marijuana! But i've ranted enough for now. My conclusion: legalize everything, or nothing!
Oh democracy, how you fail once again... Btw, thought about this today: The reason there's laws on inheritance (at least where I live) that most often put the children in a fortunate position is because there's more young people than older people. Think about it. People only use democracy to steal from each other under the veil of morality. I'm so tired of being forced into a collective of idiots and parasites, sometimes it's just so absurd it's almost surreal. So, if you're going to vote here, at least make a point out of the fact that you don't acknowledge other people's democratic right to force you not to consume whatever substance you want to, and that it shouldn't have to be voted on in the first place. It's very easy to argue that what goes on privately is none of other people's business.
[editline]24th April 2011[/editline]
And remember: there's no shame in being pissed off.
i dislike both the major parties but the demos are clearly the lesser of two evils
