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How can a just society allow alcohol and tobacco companies to sponsor public cultural events (and plaster their ads everywhere), but at the same time allow cannabis consumers to be fined, arrested, jailed and stigmatized?
No one has EVER died from ingesting cannabis. Where are the "harms" that supposedly justify such an unjust treatment of millions of Canadians?
The belief that pot smokers deserve to be punished is usually based in a sense of morality, or a deficient understanding of the facts.
The problem is that factual information on cannabis is not reaching the general public.
Any sincere effort to educate oneself about the cannabis issue will result in the realization that it is the PROHIBITION of cannabis that is causing the harm to both cannabis users and to society as a whole.
The Le Dain Commission recommended decriminalizing cannabis back in 1973!
In 2002 a Senate Special Committee, after an exhaustive study of the cannabis issue, recommended the legalization and regulation of cannabis.
If you believe the current cannabis laws are clearly unjust and harmful, share your thoughts with others! Real progress will happen once enough of the public is educated about the truth about marijuana.
If you're interested in learning the facts about cannabis please check out the rest of this web site.
A good page to start:
Marijuana Statistics
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The stereotypes don't hold true for the vast majority of cannabis consumers.
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BEWARE! Stephen Harper
wants to
throw
large numbers
of Canadians in jail! |
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Robert Altman
"I was a heavy drinker, but the alcohol affected my heart rather than
my liver. So I stopped. I smoke grass now. I say that to everybody, because marijuana should be legalized. It's
ridiculous that it isn't. If at the end of the day I feel like smoking a joint I do it. It changes the perception of what I've been through all day."
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Jennifer Aniston
"I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it". (Supposedly she and Brad Pitt smoked up together prior to meeting with Bill Clinton.) |
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Louis Armstrong
"It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope
and all that crapÉit's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an
assistant - a friend." |
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Jack Black
Actor and singer for the band "Tenacious D".
Voted pot smoker of the year by High Times magazine. Jack will be playing a set at an upcoming NORML conference. |
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Michael Bloomberg (NY mayor)
When asked if he ever smoked pot, he replied, "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it!" |
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Tom Brokaw
"There was this early benign attitude, certainly toward marijuana, and then even toward cocaine later on, which was not an area for me. I didn't go there. But you know, marijuana was being passed around at very establishment cocktails parties like an after-dinner drink of some kind." |
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James Brown
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William F. Buckley
Not a toker, but read what he had to say about prohibition in the 1983 issue of The National Review: "The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents." |
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George W. Bush
In the taped recordings of a conversation, Bush explained his refusal to answer questions about whether he had used marijuana at some time in his past. “I wouldn’t answer the marijuana questions,” Bush says. “You know why? Because I don’t want some little kid doing what I tried.” When reminded that the latter had publicly denied using cocaine, Bush replied, "I haven't denied anything." |
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Johnny Cash
A good friend of Willie Nelson's.
Cash made headlines when he refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact: "On the Sunday morning sidewalks / Wishin', Lord, that I was stoned." |
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Tommy Chong
Born in Edmonton, Alberta. Cheech Marin was a draft dodger living in Vancouver when he first met Chong. Check out his action figure.
Chong was recently sent to jail for 9 months for selling waterpipes over the internet. |
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Winston Churchill
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Bill Clinton
"When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again."
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"I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive." source
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Bob Denver
In 1998 Gilligan received probation after signing for a package containing 30 grams of pot. It turns out that he was buying pot through the mail from his co-star Dawn Wells (Mary Anne). |
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John Denver
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Jimmy Dorsey
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Bob Dylan
Introduced the Beatles to wacky tobaccy in 1964. |
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Melissa Etheridge
"Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana." When asked how her doctors reacted, Etheridge says, "Every single one was, 'Oh, yeah. That's the best help for the effects of chemotherapy.' " |
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Richard Feynman (scientist)
Nobel Prize
Laureate physicist, founder of
quantum electrodynamics. |
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Carrie Fisher
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Jane Fonda
Perhaps her and Ted enjoy cannabis together? |
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Peter Fonda
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Harrison Ford |
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James Franco
“I don’t consider weed to be any worse than having a beer,” says actor James Franco, who plays a marijuana dealer in the new film Pineapple Express. |
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Art Garfunkel
"If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too... with my musicians... and my
marijuana."
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Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House. Smoker of the weed.
Gingrich said he smoked pot while studying in the 1970s. To do so, Gingrich said, "was a sign that we were alive and in graduate school in that era." |
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Al Gore
Gore has maintained his marijuana usage was "infrequent and rare" and ended in 1972. |
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Larry Hagman
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Woody Harrelson
"I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals." |
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Whitney Houston
January 2000: Hawaiian airport security guards searched Whitney's carry-on bag and found 15 grams of pot. |
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Chrissie Hynd
"Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just
sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while." |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Sir Mick Jagger
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Thomas Jefferson
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John F Kennedy
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Steven King
"I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses. . . ." |
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John Lennon
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Bill Maher
(On the advisory board of NORML) |
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Norman Mailer
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness-the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others. |
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Bob Marley
"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960s, when I first start singing." |
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Linda McCartney
Linda made headlines as a result of an open fondness for marijuana. While being treated for breast cancer she smoked pot to ease the discomfort of chemotherapy. |
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Sir Paul McCartney
"I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude." |
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Matthew McConaughey
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George Michael
"...this time last year I was a complete and utter pothead. I know it's lunacy but the horrible truth is that the grass really helped me. It got me through making [my album] Older. I was under more stress than I'd ever been. This [album] had to amount to something substantial to justify the wait. And grass really helped me with the lyrics. I'd know there was something I really wanted to say but I wouldn't know how to say it, so I'd have a few drags and stand behind the mike and in a few minutes it'd be there. It's bad because I don't want to smoke but I can't see myself giving grass up as a writer." source |
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Robert Mitchum
"The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous or quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity." |
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Bill Murray
He attended Regis University in Denver, Colorado where he took pre-med courses. He later dropped out after being arrested for possession of marijuana at Chicago's O'Hare Airport source |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Used cannabis as medicine. |
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Willie Nelson
"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
(On the advisory board of NORML)
Sept.17, 2006:
Wille Nelson cited for marijuana possession |
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Jack Nicholson
"My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system." |
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Conan O'Brian
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Sinead O'Connor
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Luke Perry
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Michael Phelps
Winner of 14 Olympic gold medals. |
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Pablo Picasso
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Brad Pitt
Supposed he and Jennifer Aniston enjoyed smoking up together.
Brad has been seen wearing pro-marijuana shirts. Looking for a pro-marijuana shirt? |
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Ross Rebagliati
This Canadian was almost stripped of his
Gold Medal in Snowboarding after traces of marijuana were found in his system during
post-race drug testing. |
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Keanu Reeves
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Seth Rogen
Did Seth Rogen and James Franco really smoke a joint while presenting at the MTV Awards?
Watch video
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Carl Sagan
"Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience." |
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William Shakespeare
Fragments of pipes unearthed near Shakespeare's garden showed traces of cocaine and cannabis. No direct evidence connecting the pipes to Shakespeare. |
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Paul Simon |
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Kevin Smith
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Wesley Snipes
Has been seen in Canabis Cafes. |
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Alan Sorkin |
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Sting
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Oliver Stone
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Margaret Trudeau |
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Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Photo of Trudeau trying a hooka pipe. |
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Ted Turner
A former anchorperson
for CNN said that it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana. |
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Dionne Warwick
Whitney Houston's Aunt... also caught with pot at an airport. Do you think they ever smoked a joint together? Maybe they did some hotboxing. |
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George Washington
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Neil Young
'On the Beach' is perhaps the most personal record Neil Young will ever make. Young has commented that this record was made mostly under the influence of "Honey Slides" - a marijuana and honey concoction described by Young onstage at his Bottom Line show in May 1974. "You take [poor grade marijuana] and cook it up on the stove...wait till the grass just starts to smoke...just heat that honey up until it's slippery, you know, and mix that grass with it...I think you should eat it after that...That cheap grass is great. You know, in these times, you have to think about prices and things like that. source |
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A big thank you to Montel Williams for bringing factual information about cannabis to so many people! 
