NDP LEADER JACK LAYTON: CANADA SHOULD "CREATE A LEGALIZED ENVIRONMENT" FOR POT, "IT SHOULD BE LEGALIZED", AMSTERDAM STYLE LEGALIZATION IN CANADA "ABSOLUTELY THE WAY TO GO"

NDP Leader Jack Layton:

"I know you were following our leadership contest and all of our candidates running for leader took the position that it should be legalized, and I think that that shows that really throughout our party, we are at that stage.

I've often thought that once those of us who were growing up at a time when pot was readily available and frequently used, reached the point where we were actually the senior decision makers that you would then finally reach that tipping point and laws would begin to change.

And when we see whats going on for example, Larry Campbell the Mayor of Vancouver who has come out very clearly to say that the law has to go further than legalization. As long as you've got the sale and production of marijuana in the criminal code then what you're going to have is the likelihood, the tendency for there to be real tension and inappropriate activity associated with it.

The moment that you create a legalized environment, then everything becomes somewhat more regularized. I liken it very much to the old prohibition laws and what happened in those days, and its time to get out from under it. My visits to Amsterdam and other cities where there is a more flexible attitude proved to me that this is absolutely the way to go."

SOURCE: 2003 POT-TV Interview with Marc Emery

full video available at: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPfYe1a6Qg

(this excerpted clip originates at 00:11:29 in the time code of the full video)

NOW

"We favour decriminalization of marijuana," Layton said. "We have for a long time. That's NO SUPRISE [emphasis added] to anybody. I was asked these same questions in 2004 and 2006." - Jack Layton, September 20, 2008

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=a1b431e3-eea5-4800-ba27...

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[pinsandneedls]

legalize marijuana thumbs up if u agree

[james45784]

you two faced pice of sh*t you said in other vids,, actually you said this on the news on March 16 that you DO NOT agree with legalization but here your all for it BITE ME!!!!!

[fireblade185]

wtf that isn't Jack Layton

[1988scottcarey]

Jacks still a classy guy and has my vote..

[0synesthete0]

@BlondeEyeCandy You're such a fucking idiot. God.

[BlondeEyeCandy]

Jack Layton is such a fucking idiot. God.

[liljon7895]

@nednednerb how do we know he's lying he has been elected

[RockerDaddyTazz]

Jack Layton and the NDP do not support Medical MJ!

That's why the Raid on Rick's home!

The NDP support Street Drugs not Medical MJ or My file would not have been closed!!

I want Jack's pain controlled as well as mine is, with all the support that the NDP have Given me as a Medical MJ User!!

Now we just need Stoffer and Davies to need the cure and suffer too with NDP support!!

Poor Jack?

[RockerDaddyTazz]

I just love seeing this one!!

This is I bet the MOST AWESOME POST on YT!

[ScumArmy]

Green Party and NDP both support the legalization of cannabis, but neither support the model that's been advocated NORML.

But in a society where bankers control the wages and amount of money produced and who gets what loans, politicians are irrelevant, as whoever controls the economy of a nation, controls that nation, regardless who makes its laws.