British Columbia’s Federal Liberal Council of Riding Association Presidents endorsed a policy resolution to legalize and regulate cannabis in Canada, as approved by Liberal Party delegates from across Canada at the Party’s 2012 Biennial Policy Conference in Ottawa.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Sensible BC, the activist group behind a new campaign to decriminalize marijuana in British Columbia, will host a Public Forum on Sensible Cannabis Policy in Victoria on Monday, September 24.
Campaign aides for Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) busied themselves this weekend with telling reporters that the candidate “agrees with Mitt Romney” on keeping marijuana illegal, despite him telling a Colorado television station that he supports letting states flout federal laws on medical marijuana.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Republican VP candidate and faux cool guy Paul Ryan has announced he'd let states decide about medical marijuana while campaigning in Colorado.
Four years ago, the election of Barack Obama, now battling hard for his second term as U.S. president, gave the drug-legalization movement in B.C. and else-where great hope for enlightened change in U.S. and Canadian government policy on illegal drug use.