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Jack Layton and Marc Emery on Pot TV in 2003

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When the New Democratic Party wanted the cannabis culture's vote in 2003, the party leader, Jack Layton went to Marc Emery's home and endorsed the cannabis community.

"Our view is there should be rules around marijuana use, personal use, age, driving, trafficking, mass production and marketing," he said.

And Layton dismissed critics who say the stance helps organized crime.

"When something is criminalized to the extent that marijuana is you have by definition created a context for organized crime," he said.

http://www.CannabisCulture.com
http://www.WhyProhibition.ca
http://www.Pot-tv.net

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  • free marc emery!

  • RIP Jack.

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  • Sad that this was in 2003 and cannabis is still not legalized

  • REST IN PEACE JACK! :(

  • RIP Jack

  • I miss Jack Layton already...

  • RIP Jack Layton

  • @sefrzan There's nothing he can do, being a protest leader won't get you anywhere in politics. As we seen with Harper, it's better to hide your true agenda with Canadians unfortunately. So yeah Layton has to keep this support at the wayside, at least until he's leader of Canada. Then he can introduce bills and have the number of seats to pass them. We know what happens if he supports legalization. Conservatives turn it into "Layton wants to legalize all drugs and give them to our children too".

  • common. what happened to HQ marc. jesus

  • It would help you understand why you can never expect the NDP to end prohibition if you watch the video created by Mr. Paul McKeever entittled "The Principle of Pot".

    It is the story of Marc's activism, not only against the ban on Pot, but all the prohibitions against different peaceful consensual choices you or your neighbour might make.

  • Marcs really baked during this interview lol.

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