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#1535527 - 05/16/09 11:13 AM
Re: A Trip to the House Justice Committee
[Re: chrisbennett]
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Stoner
Registered: 10/06/08
Posts: 511
Loc: The Land
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".....Hmmm sounds much more like an ego trip rather than a psychedlic one."
Every Parliament/Legislature has some officer charged with giving or not giving assent to its legislative acts. This officer must be one, not many, for then what if 1/2, 2/3, 4/5, 11/12, etc. give assent?
There is still a democratic apparatus to the Society---members temporal may introduce bills at parliament upon notice. It's simply that there's also an executive/judicial apparatus.
You seem to enjoy judging, Chris, and one act of our next Parliament may be a Provincial Court Act to constitute a Provincial Court of Justice. Would you like to be a puisne Judge of that court?
"My advice to all is to steer clear of that Ship of Fools and its whacky Captain!"
So you prefer the Good Ship Canada whose officers compare the possession of marihuana and its prohibition to the prohibition of murder, as though they're similar at all? You prefer a Governor General you've never met and probably will never influence to a Chief Justice you could call up and invite over for a coffee?
Well, there's no accouting for taste. It's not like you're not part of a Ship of Fools---your Chief Justice as a Canadian is Beverly McLaughlin. Your Society has an executive with similar ability to grant or to not grant assent to Acts.
"Good luck with that clap trap but the reality is you are going to end up right back where you started at the end of that journey."
I don't think that's true. Bud has already been acknowledged in Canada's Highest Court, Parliament, as Chief Justice of the Society.
Whether we are left to peacefully enact our will, that's another matter---but the Society has wished peace to Canada, and that is our position; Canada may continue to enforce its drug policy over the content of its membership; we are not within its membership.
As to your Sec. 56 exemption plan, cool---so then does every individual who wants one need to apply in respect of each drug? Further, as I take it your religious argument is partly grounded in the ancient use of plants, so how does that argument track onto newer semisynthetic psychedelics like LSD?
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vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. COR VNA VIA VNVM "She's nobody's child. The Law can't touch her at all." --Dylan
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#1535530 - 05/16/09 11:24 AM
Re: A Trip to the House Justice Committee
[Re: Jack A. Roe]
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Ganja God
 
Registered: 06/21/00
Posts: 7136
Loc: Vancouver, BC
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Well I suppose one could almost form a cult around Tim Leary, Ram Dass, or other such sainty psychedelic figures. I don't believe in prohibition, but it is not an issue I am qualified to bring to the courts, I do how ever think I can offer something in the that way in regards to cannabis prohibition. Although I have had what I would consider "enlightening" expereinces from LSD, these days I stick to plants and have for years.
Honestly Jack, I would be totally happy if what you say works out. I really don't understand it exactly, and that has a lot to do with my skepticism on the matter.... It seems "far-out". But if it brings about a situation where there is legal cannabis, I would be as happy about that as any of you, and i'd follow suite.
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#1535533 - 05/16/09 11:36 AM
Re: A Trip to the House Justice Committee
[Re: OhYesWeCannabis!]
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Stoner
Registered: 10/06/08
Posts: 511
Loc: The Land
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"Maybe its your drivel causing the lower numbers? I also spoke to the justice committee.....so what?"
"Words, Words, Words." ---Shak. Hamlet.
Parliament is Canada's Highest Court. I mean, ultimately, one may say "so what?" to anything.
"again ....so what and big deal... who cares...unless it is really just about you bud in which case I would watch for less stars for you instead of more"
If Bud feels a slight bit prideful at what he has done, I believe he may be forgiven as that which he has undertaken is monumental in scope; he delivered Judgement to a room full of MPs. That takes Guts. I know plenty of people who aren't even comfortable speaking to a Crowd, let alone delivering judgement to and in the Highest Court of one of the world's "great Nations."
If what he says is funny, I imagine it appears funny because of the scale. Do you go to Provincial Court and bust a gut because they have a Unicorn up on the wall? That's the sort of thing a 12 year old girl has in her bedroom, right? You understand that Provincial Court Judges actually believe that they have the right to send men and women to jail for quasicriminal offences in respect of marihuana, right? And perhaps they do, within Canadian Society. That is not the only Society.
IMO Bud's involvement with this project is exemplary. He has given his efforts without reward and without expectation thereof.
"Robin you caused this hahhahhahahhahha"
Bud's his own Man. I didn't cause anything. At best I offered him the opportunities and he accepted them of his own free will.
I will remind you that I first met Bud after he'd been arrested twice for asking cops to buy cannabis, that is, exercising his Right, albeit an unfortified Right.
In a sense, I surveyed the situation and have now erected an appropriate fortification of Bud's Right (which is really Our Right)---but without him, I am uncertain I'd ever have had such an opportunity to so do.
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vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. COR VNA VIA VNVM "She's nobody's child. The Law can't touch her at all." --Dylan
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#1535554 - 05/16/09 12:51 PM
Re: A Trip to the House Justice Committee
[Re: TomatoPie]
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Stoner
Registered: 10/06/08
Posts: 511
Loc: The Land
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Fool
That lord that counsell'd thee To give away thy land, Come place him here by me, Do thou for him stand: The sweet and bitter fool Will presently appear; The one in motley here, The other found out there.
KING LEAR
Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool
All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. ---Shak. King Lear Act I Scene IV "Bud, from an unbiased view, I can say you come off exactly as that crackpot stoner the public loves to categorize any legalization activist in." Is that unbiased? I see, who are the other "legalization activists" who've said "so long" to Canada until they get their Act together?
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vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. COR VNA VIA VNVM "She's nobody's child. The Law can't touch her at all." --Dylan
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