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Invisiblecarbonhoots
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Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out
    #3381489 - 11/18/04 08:14 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

This ought to be a good one.

Canada's pot activist community is organizing a protest where marijuana will be consumed in public. As close to Bush's face as possible.

Marc Emery, the Canadian movement's figurehead, will be there personally.

I really hope this one goes well. Shouldn't be too hard since so many people smoke grass in Canada and so many people disapprove of Bush too.

Be there...if you can...on Nov 30th and Dec 1st. Parliament Hill.





George Bush to visit Ottawa
by Dana Larsen (17 Nov, 2004) Canadian marijuana movement plans protest during US President's visit

Canadian marijuana activists are planning a Parliament Hill smoke-in to protest a visit from George W Bush. The US President recently announced that he is planning a two-day trip to Canada's capital of Ottawa on Tuesday November 30 and Wednesday December 1.

"I think Bush will arrive on the Tuesday evening for an official dinner hosted by the Prime Minister, not the Governor General," said Parliamentary CTV news reporter Mike Duffy. "And then I expect the next day they will hold a series of bilateral meetings."

The visit is intended to be somewhat low-key, with Bush skipping some of the traditional formalities associated with a visiting head of state. Bush will be meeting directly with Prime Minister Paul Martin and other senior officials, but he will not be making an official speech to MPs and Senators in a joint session of Parliament.

"The buzz here is that the Bush White House does not want to have demonstrators or any kind of an outburst in a joint session," Duffy said.

Although Bush will seek to avoid protests and demonstrations, activists across Canada from a variety of causes will likely be converging upon Ottawa to protest the US President's visit. Marijuana activists intend on getting their people out to have a protest on Parliament Hill during Bush's visit.

"We will be holding a mass smoke-in during Bush's visit," said Marc Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture and President of the BC Marijuana Party. "I want to get busloads of people from across Canada to converge upon Parliament Hill. I will be speaking from 3:30 to 4:20pm on both days, and we will smoke out the hill. We want to show that Canadians love marijuana, and that we will no longer stand for the American war against our people, our plant and our culture."

Emery urged pot-people to make plans to travel to Ottawa and join in the protest. "This is a unique opportunity for us to make our point directly to President Bush. US media will pick up our protest, and we need to show our American neighbours that Canadians are resolute in our opposition to the drug war. We are the light at the end of their dark drug war tunnel."

The Presidential visit was only announced today, two weeks before it is scheduled. "They waited until the last minute to announce this visit because they don't want us to have time to organize a substantial protest," added Emery. "So we have to get onto this quickly and get moving. Anyone who wants to volunteer to help get people to this protest should contact me by email."


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Offlineekomstop
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: carbonhoots]
    #3381583 - 11/18/04 08:29 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

haha nice..if I get either day off work I'll probably go check it out

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OfflineDivided_Sky
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: carbonhoots]
    #3381598 - 11/18/04 08:31 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

If you guys want to smoke that's cool, but I have yet to see anybody actually try to reason with Bush about a sensible drug policy. Most people that favor legal marijuana in the States adopt a very antagonist stance towards the man, and so of course nothing gets accomplished. Why would he listen to people who think he's a Nazi?

I would like to see somebody actually TALK with him about drug policy reform. That is how you get stuff done. As it is Bush has probobly never encountered a rational marijuana lobyist.


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1. "After an hour I wasn't feeling anything so I decided to take another..."
2. "We were feeling pretty good so we decided to smoke a few bowls..."
3. "I had to be real quiet because my parents were asleep upstairs..."

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InvisibleAntiMeme
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: carbonhoots]
    #3381622 - 11/18/04 08:35 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

So you're giving the police a good, legal reason to disperse the protest?

If you really want to protest, then why not make it peaceful and legal?


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: AntiMeme]
    #3381639 - 11/18/04 08:37 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

We've done it before, and we'll probably do it again

The police don't particularly care

Because it is a peaceful and legal protest

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InvisibleKrishna
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: ekomstop]
    #3381657 - 11/18/04 08:43 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

if you could really get every canadian pot smoker to light up, in public, there's no way in hell they could arrest them all... best of luck to you guys! And Divided_Sky - what do you think NORML is? They certainly aren't irrational at all - but according this current administration, if you smoke pot, you support terrorists (and it's not just a left-wing exageration - they have actually made commercials saying that exact sentence!). i'm sorry, but last i recalled, Al-Qaieda didn't really have any hydroponic equipment hidden in Afghanistan.... :shrug:


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Invisiblez@z.com
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: Krishna]
    #3381827 - 11/18/04 09:10 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Krishna said:
last i recalled, Al-Qaieda didn't really have any hydroponic equipment hidden in Afghanistan.... :shrug:



It's in Iran man....They shipped it there before the war.


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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: z@z.com]
    #3381853 - 11/18/04 09:17 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

so what politicians are doing something for Norlm? any in office?


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America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure"

We have "reckless fiscal policies"

America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Americans deserve better

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: carbonhoots]
    #3381892 - 11/18/04 09:31 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Have a good protest. That is all.

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InvisibleGreat_Satan
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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: PopeHypocriteIII]
    #3388265 - 11/20/04 07:59 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

So when you all get lung cancer from smoking pot will you expect the tax payer to pay the bill?

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: Divided_Sky]
    #3388384 - 11/20/04 09:11 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Why would he listen to people who think he's a Nazi?

Because he's the president and listening to people is supposed to be his fucking job?


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: Xlea321]
    #3388659 - 11/20/04 10:36 AM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Alex123 said:
Why would he listen to people who think he's a Nazi?

Because he's the president and listening to people is supposed to be his fucking job?




:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

You think listening to people is his JOB???? Your psychiatrist's job is to listen to people.  The president of the United States' job is to lead, which entails considering information, deciding on a course of action and then taking steps to see that the selected course of action is implemented.  He is most certainly not obliged to consider one shred of the bleatings from the vicious wing of the opposition.  And you can take that to your next therapy session.  Your shrink will listen and if he is a professional he will be able to restrain himself from laughiing insanely


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: zappaisgod]
    #3389206 - 11/20/04 12:55 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

wow, I just can't stand your posts sometimes, well.. most of the time actually. Do you get some kind of a kick dissing ppl over the internet?

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: carbonhoots]
    #3389307 - 11/20/04 01:25 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

An artcle from the Toronto sun.

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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Content...ol=968350116795

Should Canada indict Bush?

THOMAS WALKOM

11/15/04 "Toronto Star" -- When U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa ? probably later this year ? should he be welcomed? Or should he be charged with war crimes?

It's an interesting question. On the face of it, Bush seems a perfect candidate for prosecution under Canada's Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

This act was passed in 2000 to bring Canada's ineffectual laws in line with the rules of the new International Criminal Court. While never tested, it lays out sweeping categories under which a foreign leader like Bush could face arrest.

In particular, it holds that anyone who commits a war crime, even outside Canada, may be prosecuted by our courts. What is a war crime? According to the statute, it is any conduct defined as such by "customary international law" or by conventions that Canada has adopted.

War crimes also specifically include any breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, such as torture, degradation, wilfully depriving prisoners of war of their rights "to a fair and regular trial," launching attacks "in the knowledge that such attacks will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians" and deportation of persons from an area under occupation.

Outside of one well-publicized (and quickly squelched) attempt in Belgium, no one has tried to formally indict Bush. But both Oxfam International and the U.S. group Human Rights Watch have warned that some of the actions undertaken by the U.S. and its allies, particularly in Iraq, may fall under the war crime rubric.

The case for the prosecution looks quite promising. First, there is the fact of the Iraq war itself. After 1945, Allied tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo ? in an astonishing precedent ? ruled that states no longer had the unfettered right to invade other countries and that leaders who started such conflicts could be tried for waging illegal war.

Concurrently, the new United Nations outlawed all aggressive wars except those authorized by its Security Council.

Today, a strong case could be made that Bush violated the Nuremberg principles by invading Iraq. Indeed, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already labelled that war illegal in terms of the U.N. Charter.

Second, there is the manner in which the U.S. conducted this war.

The mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is a clear contravention of the Geneva Accord. The U.S. is also deporting selected prisoners to camps outside of Iraq (another contravention). U.S. press reports also talk of shadowy prisons in Jordan run by the CIA, where suspects are routinely tortured. And the estimated civilian death toll of 100,000 may well contravene the Geneva Accords prohibition against the use of excessive force.

Canada's war crimes law specifically permits prosecution not only of those who carry out such crimes but of the military and political superiors who allow them to happen.

What has emerged since Abu Ghraib shows that officials at the highest levels of the Bush administration permitted and even encouraged the use of torture.

Given that Bush, as he likes to remind everyone, is the U.S. military's commander-in-chief, it is hard to argue he bears no responsibility.

Then there is Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. says detainees there do not fall under the Geneva accords. That's an old argument.

In 1946, Japanese defendants explained their mistreatment of prisoners of war by noting that their country had never signed any of the Geneva Conventions. The Japanese were convicted anyway.

Oddly enough, Canada may be one of the few places where someone like Bush could be brought to justice. Impeachment in the U.S. is most unlikely. And, at Bush's insistence, the new international criminal court has no jurisdiction over any American.

But a Canadian war crimes charge, too, would face many hurdles. Bush was furious last year when Belgians launched a war crimes suit in their country against him ? so furious that Belgium not only backed down under U.S. threats but changed its law to prevent further recurrences.

As well, according to a foreign affairs spokesperson, visiting heads of state are immune from prosecution when in Canada on official business. If Ottawa wanted to act, it would have to wait until Bush was out of office ? or hope to catch him when he comes up here to fish.

And, of course, Canada's government would have to want to act. War crimes prosecutions are political decisions that must be authorized by the federal attorney-general.

Still, Prime Minister Paul Martin has staked out his strong opposition to war crimes. This was his focus in a September address to the U.N. General Assembly.

There, Martin was talking specifically about war crimes committed by militiamen in far-off Sudan. But as my friends on the Star's editorial board noted in one of their strong defences of concerted international action against war crimes, the rule must be, "One law for all."

Thomas Walkom writes every Tuesday. twalkom@thestar.ca.

Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: chodamunky]
    #3389314 - 11/20/04 01:28 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

I don't understand how a country like Canada that is so far North can be such a big marijuana country when marijuana is a tropical plant and needs lots of sunlight to grow. Do they import it from Mexico?


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: question_for_joo]
    #3389324 - 11/20/04 01:32 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

question_for_joo said:
I don't understand how a country like Canada that is so far North can be such a big marijuana country when marijuana is a tropical plant and needs lots of sunlight to grow. Do they import it from Mexico?




High pressure sodium light fixtures = k3y


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: question_for_joo]
    #3389327 - 11/20/04 01:33 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Cannabis can grow just about anywhere


Event Poster:



PDF for anyone in the area

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: ekomstop]
    #3389337 - 11/20/04 01:36 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Why Bush is coming to bother us


http://www.zetetics.com/mac/blog/00000624.html

11/18/2004 Entry: "NAFTA-plus"

I don't know what to make of this article by Joseph Farah, editor and publisher of WorldNetDaily, which lambastes the idea of NAFTA-plus - a plan that some have called the "deep integration" of US and Canada. And, oh yes, Mexico too. (In writing that last sentence fragment, I heard the voice of the Wicked Witch of Oz saying, "And your little dog, Toto, too!" Somehow Mexico is always an after-thought.)

I know what I think of NAFTA-plus - I don't like it. But I don't know how seriously to take the sky-is-falling attitude of Farah who seems to believe it would be the death of American sovereignty -- Canadian and Mexican sovereignty he's not too worried about. Nor do I know how likely the plan is to succeed.

What is NAFTA-plus? Intriguingly, it is a plan that both socialists and fundamentalist Christians oppose.

To secure a closer Canada-US partnership, the Bush administration wants to make sure that Canada addresses US concerns about our shared border serving as an entry point for terrorists. And, oh yes!, it wants to tap into Canada's cannon-fodder potential as well as its natural resources. Natural resources: Canada is not merely an oil and electric energy exporter, it is by far the world's largest untapped source of lumber, natural gas, clean water, mineral deposits, etc. Cannon-fodder: there are all those fresh-scrubbed Canadian boys and girls who could be shipped overseas instead of fresh-scrubbed American ones to die for corporate profits and neocon dreams.

NAFTA-plus calls for Canada to direct massive tax dollars toward border and domestic security, in addition to beefing up our military so that it can participate both in crises within North America and overseas. (The Canadian military is a bit of a joke and, frankly, I like it that way. I'm sure it still annoys the hell out of Bush that Canadians are not in Iraq.) The proposed NAFTA-plus scheme also includes a "resource security pact." This offers Canada certain advantages: e.g. exempting Canadian lumber from US trade restrictions. It offers the US huge advantages: e.g. guaranteed access to Canada's energy resources.

In short, Canada is being offered financial incentives - mostly the elimination of trade barriers and the influx of American investment to undeveloped regions like Northern Quebec - in exchange for falling in line with America's military/security goals and for sating America's hunger for natural resources.

The five elements of the proposed plan so far are: 1) reinventing borders to establish a common security perimeter, possibly involving a Canadian national identity card with biometric identifiers; 2) the "harmonization of business regulations"; 3) a resource security pact; 4) "reinvigorating" the North American Defence Alliance; and 5) developing new institutions to manage a Canada-US partnership.

I don't have a lot of answers yet - I don't even know how likely the plan is to succeed -- but I will be researching a lot of questions in the next few weeks

Wendy McElroy

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:53:57 -0800
From: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space <alw@peaceinspace.com>
Subject: LAW - Letter to PM Martin to declare President Bush persona non grata
in Canada

Please feel free to distribute this letter far & wide. Thank you.


LAW - Letter to PM Martin to declare President Bush persona non grata in Canada
Michael Mandel and Gail Davidson
on behalf of Lawyers against the War (LAW) a Canada-based committee of jurists
and others with members in thirteen countries.



Friday, November 19, 2004

The Right Honourable Paul Martin
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
Langevin Block
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A2
Tel: 613 6868
Fax: 613-941-6900
Email: pm@pm.gc.ca

URGENT

Dear Prime Minister Martin:

It was with absolute dismay that we learned of the planned visit of President
Bush to Canada on November 30th 2004.

Surely you are aware of the many grave crimes against humanity and war crimes
for which President Bush stands properly accused by the world, starting with the
Nuremberg Tribunal?s ?supreme international crime? of waging an aggressive war
against Iraq in defiance of international law and the Charter of the United
Nations, and including systematic and massive violations of the Geneva Conventions
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and Relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as the United Nations Convention
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. As
recently as November 16, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former war
crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour called for an investigation into crimes against
the Geneva Conventions in the assault by US forces on the densely populated
city of Fallujah.[1]
The terrible toll in life and limb of these crimes was documented in a study
carried out by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore
and published in the October 29, 2004 issue of the British Medical Journal The
Lancet which conservatively estimated that the war had taken 100,000 Iraqi
lives, mostly women and children.[2] This was well within the range predicted
before the war, for example by a British affiliate of International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War who, in November 2002, assessed the probable death
toll at a minimum of 48,000 deaths, mostly civilians, and predicted that
post-war conditions would cost an additional 200,000 lives.[3]

The President?s responsibility for these offences derives not only from his
?command responsibility' as Commander in Chief of US forces, for crimes that he
knew were being committed, or ignored through willful blindness, but did nothing
to prevent; it also comes from his direct involvement in the formulation of
policy. This includes his personal involvement not only in the devising and waging
of an aggressive, illegal war, but also of the unlawful refusal to grant
prisoner of war status to prisoners of war, contrary to specific provisions of the
Geneva Conventions, an act repudiated in the US Courts.[4] It also includes the
approval of techniques of interrogation by his direct subordinate, Secretary of
Defense Rumsfeld, that legally and morally constitute torture and that led
directly to the disgraceful violence against Iraqi prisoners, for example at the
prison at Abu Ghraib.

As you know, not only are these acts criminal under international law, but many
of them are also criminal under Canadian law, under laws enacted in pursuance
of our international obligations, most importantly the Crimes Against Humanity
and War Crimes Act, put in place just four years ago under a Liberal government.
They also violate the provisions on torture in the Canadian Criminal Code.

By these laws, Canadians and non-Canadians alike are liable to prosecution in
Canada, no matter where in the world they have committed their crimes.
Furthermore, as the Attorney General can advise, the fact that these crimes have been
committed by Mr. Bush while President of the United States is absolutely
irrelevant to his personal liability to prosecution in Canada, according to principles
established at Nuremberg and universally recognized since then, including by
the British House of Lords in the Pinochet case in 1999. And if President Bush
were to visit Canada after leaving office, we would be seeking the Attorney
General?s permission under section 9 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Act and section 7 of the Criminal Code to commence proceedings against him.

However, as you also know, should President Bush come to Canada now, while
still President, he would be clothed with both diplomatic and head of state
immunity from our laws and we would be powerless to bring him to justice.

Your invitation in these circumstances, therefore, shows contempt for both
Canadian and international law and is a grievous insult to the literally hundreds
of thousands of victims of President Bush?s international crimes. It is also our
belief that the invitation endangers Canadians? security at home and abroad,
because it is a departure from our steadfast refusal to this point to participate
in this criminal war of the Bush administration. In fact, it is our belief that
this invitation can only act as an encouragement to President Bush in his
continuing criminal activity, providing him with an important platform in this, his
first post re-election foreign visit, to defend illegal US actions in Iraq and
to improve his international standing despite them, all this against the wishes
of the majority of Canadians.

Indeed, we feel bound to point out that your invitation to President Bush may
thus constitute an abetting of the crimes he and his administration and military
continue to commit. As such you and your colleagues could be personally liable
to prosecution under the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act by virtue
of section 21 of the Canadian Criminal Code, for crimes so serious that they are
punishable in Canada by up to life imprisonment. Abetting a crime, as the
Attorney General will advise, is regarded as equally criminal to actually committing
it and is complete when one intentionally, knowingly, or with willful blindness
encourages the commission of a crime by another.

Nor would President Bush?s immunity be capable of shielding you and your
colleagues from prosecution, because, as the Attorney General will advise, the
immunity applies only to foreign officials visiting Canada and not to members of the
Canadian government itself. Nor does the inability to prosecute a criminal
affect the criminal liability of an abettor.

It is for all these reasons we urgently request a meeting with you, the Foreign
Minister, the Attorney General or your representatives in Ottawa, so that we
might have the opportunity to elaborate on these matters and to persuade you to
declare President Bush persona non grata in Canada, or at least to rescind this
invitation, and thus to avoid implicating yourselves and Canada in the most
serious of international crimes.

Sincerely,



Michael Mandel and Gail Davidson
on behalf of Lawyers against the War (LAW) a Canada-based committee of jurists
and others with members in thirteen countries.


Contacts:
Michael Mandel, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 4700 Keele
Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3. Tel: 416 736-5039, Fax: 416-736-5736,
Email: MMandel@osgoode.yorku.ca
Gail Davidson, Tel: 604 738 0338; Fax: 604 736 1175, Email: law@portal.ca


[1] Reuters, ?U.N. Rights Boss Urges Fallujah 'Abuses' Probe?
http://yahoo.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6828157.
[2] Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert
Burnham, Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, published online 29
October 2004.http://image.thelanct.com/extras04art10342web.pdf
[3] Collateral Damage: the Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq, 12
November 2002. http://www.ippnw.org/CollateralDamage.pdf
[4] For example Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al, (United States District Court for the
District of Columbia, November 7, 2004).

cc: The Honourable Bill Graham P.C. Q.C. M.P.
Minister of National Defence
General George Pearkes Building
101 Colonel By Drive ? 13th Floor
Ottawa Ontario K1A 0K2
Tel: 613 992 5234
Fax: 613 996 8607
Email: Graham.B@parl.gc.ca

The Honourable Irwin Cotler
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
312 West Block
House of Commons
Ottawa Ontario K1A 0A6
Tel: 613 992 4621
Fax: 613 990 7255
Email: Cotler.I@parl.gc.ca

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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: question_for_joo]
    #3389345 - 11/20/04 01:42 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

question_for_joo said:
I don't understand how a country like Canada that is so far North can be such a big marijuana country when marijuana is a tropical plant and needs lots of sunlight to grow. Do they import it from Mexico?



Well, aside from the fact that many pot growers grow indoors, it's my understanding that cannabis can grow anywhere outside of the Arctic Circle. It is far from merely a "tropical plant."


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Re: Smoke pot and protest ol' Bushy right the fuck out [Re: silversoul7]
    #3389396 - 11/20/04 02:00 PM (19 years, 4 months ago)

they have so much, like half an ounce.
i don't need much. i just need a few grams and i'm good for a few months, honest.


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