Posted on 08/12/2003 12:47:25 PM PDT by freepatriot32
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Shaughn Butts, The Journal / Followers look on as Marc Emery smokes up Sunday.
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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 |
You had to go back 5 days to find that.
You really need to stop worshiping Ozzy Osbourne, put down the booze, and get a life.
I don't---studies like the one I cited mistake correlation for causation. Occam's Razor discards the "gateway theory" in favor of the explanation that earlier use of one drug and later use of another have a common cause in a predisposition to alter one's mental state.
I cited that passage on "gateway" alcohol and tobacco to point out to presidio9 and other WODdies that if they argue for retaining the marijuana ban because it's a "gateway drug" then they must also support the banning of alcohol and tobacco on the same grounds.
10 or 11 posts. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. You have nothing intelligent to say, so you make a big deal about typos. But there's a problem: You are human like the rest of us, and just as guilty of typos from time to time. The difference is that since you have made typos out to be the height of stupididity, when you make one yourself you end up looking like the complete drug-addict jackass loser that we all know you are.
Please prove that that study took place.
Are you suggesting that the WODdies at Drug Watch International are liars? "Drug Watch International is a volunteer non-profit drug information network and advocacy organization that promotes the creation of healthy drug-free cultures in the world and opposes the legalization of drugs." (http://www.drugwatch.org/)
Funny, I never thought you were human. More likely a computer-programmed 'bot, spewing out ignorance with every keystroke.
Have another beer....maybe you'll eventually make an intelligent post, but I doubt it.
You are too stupid for words to describe.
The moderator has requested that personal attacks be taken to the Smokey Backroom.
Sorry, but this guy has nothing useful to say. I take it back....he's not stupid, only terminally disinformed.
The only thing humiliating is your ignorant posts.
I guess you have no shame....posting the same uninformed "opinions" over and over, without so much as an iota of truth.
Live with that, Sport.
Look, I wouldn't need to humiliate you if you weren't constantly doing stupid things like making a big deal out of typos when you are just as guilty. I wish I didn't have to point out what an idiot you are. You bring this on yourself.
No he's not---the fact that he used pot and later other drugs doesn't even prove that the one caused the other FOR HIM, much less that the one causes the other for other people.
No it doesn't:
"post hoc ergo propter hoc
"Definition:
The name in Latin means "after this therefore because of this". This describes the fallacy. An author commits the fallacy when it is assumed that because one thing follows another that the one thing was caused by the other." - http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/posthoc.htm
Not only that, but he has spent his entire life surrounded almost exclusively with recreational drug users. [...] It goes without saying that Ozzie is in perfect position to observe the causal relationship.
What were his control groups? Where is his statistical analysis?
Try looking in a mirror....you still have said nothing of substance, but that's about what I expect from you.
You are only humiliating yourself, tool.
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