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

[cinFLA]

To deny them treatment is simply not ethical, IMHO.

As if you really cared.

[PaxMacian]

post 54 about Jack Osborne should have been addressed to you as well.

Regarding the Article you posted above on Schizophrenia:

Merriam Webster defines Schizophrenia: "contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes."

If you think a sane society is one that is divided up the middle on just about every issue by the voices of corporate media while the side on top is mostly the one perilously oppressing the other in neglect of its founding constitution then schizophrenia must be included in your definition of sanity. We are a nation of contradiction and our system is fundamentally antagonistic in form as well as practice.

The article you posted isn't even news. It is exceedingly deceptive with respect to a causal relationship and barely redeems itself by noting that regarding schizophrenia, "A lot of people have it who didn't smoke, and a lot smoke but don't get it."

Psyches removed God from the study of the mind by taking books of demonology and systematically renaming known ills in new terms for the modern godless age. The 'schizophrenic' or rather the demon possessed are always seeking an escape from their torment. Logically they will be much more likely to seek the pacification of herb than not. This does not in any way logically work in reverse. Herb users are not necessarily 'schizophrenic' nor demon possessed. I can not say as much for practicers of the psych professions. I can not say as much for those that choose the path of warrior, either. Finally, it is obvious to those familiar with the WOD that the choice of experimental groups is enough to nullify the results as non-scientific propaganda.

[PaxMacian]

Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

[PaxMacian]

Merriam Webster says an herb is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic qualities.

[Sir Gawain]

Exceptions do not make the rule. Pot is not a good thing.

There is no proof for the gateway theory. Causation does not equal correlation.

[presidio9]

Lie. That is the secondary definition. Here is the primary one:

Main Entry: herb
Pronunciation: '&rb, US also and British usually 'h&rb
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English herbe, from Old French, from Latin herba
Date: 14th century


1 : a seed-producing annual, biennial, or perennial that does not develop persistent woody tissue but dies down at the end of a growing season.

Poison ivy is an herb, and it was just one convenient example of many. Take your goofy interpretations elsewhere. The Bible most definitely does not tell use to smoke pot.

[presidio9]

There is no proof for the gateway theory. Causation does not equal correlation.

My response: Never bother citing simple observation and plain common sense to people who have addled their minds with durgs I guess.

[Sir Gawain]

I'm sure that inhaling smoke isn't exactly healthy for you. But for someone like myself, who smokes up maybe once a month at most, how harmful is that?

I wouldn't worry about it. No documented cases of cancer from marijuana. Ever.

[Quick1]

You're right, it's impossible for me to care about my grandma while at the same time wanting drugs to be legal.

You're just trolling now.

[cinFLA]

You're right, it's impossible for me to care about my grandma while at the same time wanting drugs to be legal.

Your grandma smokes marijuana?

[Sir Gawain]

Your grandma smokes marijuana?

I bet you're already looking for that TIPS number so you can turn her in if she does.

[Quick1]

Is it any of your damn business?

[ActionNewsBill]

My response: Never bother citing simple observation and plain common sense to people who have addled their minds with durgs I guess.

Sober up and learn to spell, alkie.

[Quick1]

Also, there are no cases of anyone dying from overdose.

[Sir Gawain]

I know. I have all the irrefutable facts handy for threads like these. They hate that.

[presidio9]

Sober up and learn to spell, alkie.

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

[Sir Gawain]

Say something relevant.

Take your own advice.

[ActionNewsBill]

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

Have another six pack and get back to me when you have anything intelligent or relevant to say.

[presidio9]

I did say something relevant. Rather than focus on that, you chose to fixate on a typo because you had not intelligent response.

[ActionNewsBill]

...you chose to fixate on a typo because you had not intelligent response.

Is English a second language for you, or are you still drunk?