I did my post secondary education in London, Ontario in the late 70's early 80's and in London he was pretty much a household name. He owned the City Lights used Book and Magazine Store and he would open it every Sunday with was not allow in those days. He would get charged and be open again the next week, over and over. Since the move to B.C he has taken on a much larger fight and is now being forced to pay for it, and he never sold pot to Americans if I recall this whole mess is over distributing seeds which contain no THC even and the Canadian Government never charged him. What makes it even worse is Pot is not always illegal by State Law but Federal Law trumps state, so he would be facing the Federal Penitentiary System, where even hardened criminals have a hard time surviving and I am sure his royal title bestowed by his followers in the fight will not go unnoticed. The U.S War on drugs does not work and now our Conservative Gov`t is turning back the clock on so much of the valuable progress that`s been made. The U.S has approx. 2.5 million people in the penal system and 75-80% are serving time for non-violent drug related offenses, has nobody heard of Rehab. Governor Schwarzenegger has announced they are going to build more prisons adding capacity for another 40,000 inmates. Even during Prohibition when Alcohol was illegal they never jailed people for using it, only selling it.
While they never deny a request for extradition,they should start now, how many of those requests were for offenses that are not illegal in Canada. The Americans love their high profile busts, and Tommy Chong is a perfect example.
Here hoping you still beat this or at least get to serve your time here in Canada. Do they not even realize how much stronger they are making the whole movement in Canada with the extradition talk, if they are determined to make stop the fight, sending it`s leader to jail in a Foreign Country is a bad idea, as it will just rile the Prince`s followers and wake up the complacent one`s.
Submitted by schizo1988 () on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 04:47.
He has always fought for our rights
I did my post secondary education in London, Ontario in the late 70's early 80's and in London he was pretty much a household name. He owned the City Lights used Book and Magazine Store and he would open it every Sunday with was not allow in those days. He would get charged and be open again the next week, over and over. Since the move to B.C he has taken on a much larger fight and is now being forced to pay for it, and he never sold pot to Americans if I recall this whole mess is over distributing seeds which contain no THC even and the Canadian Government never charged him. What makes it even worse is Pot is not always illegal by State Law but Federal Law trumps state, so he would be facing the Federal Penitentiary System, where even hardened criminals have a hard time surviving and I am sure his royal title bestowed by his followers in the fight will not go unnoticed. The U.S War on drugs does not work and now our Conservative Gov`t is turning back the clock on so much of the valuable progress that`s been made. The U.S has approx. 2.5 million people in the penal system and 75-80% are serving time for non-violent drug related offenses, has nobody heard of Rehab. Governor Schwarzenegger has announced they are going to build more prisons adding capacity for another 40,000 inmates. Even during Prohibition when Alcohol was illegal they never jailed people for using it, only selling it.
While they never deny a request for extradition,they should start now, how many of those requests were for offenses that are not illegal in Canada. The Americans love their high profile busts, and Tommy Chong is a perfect example.
Here hoping you still beat this or at least get to serve your time here in Canada. Do they not even realize how much stronger they are making the whole movement in Canada with the extradition talk, if they are determined to make stop the fight, sending it`s leader to jail in a Foreign Country is a bad idea, as it will just rile the Prince`s followers and wake up the complacent one`s.