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Today across the country Canadians celebrate our beautiful, peaceful country. The Vancouver Cannabis Community celebrated as well, marking the occasion with a peaceful marijuana demonstration that has become known as Cannabis Day.

 

The day has the tantalizing appearance of legalization but throughout the event political speeches urged attendees to become involved politically before being rendered helpless by prohibition incarceration. Established marijuana politicos Green Party Director-at-large and wife of Marc Emery, Jodie Emery, and End Prohibition Founder Dana Larsen took to the stage to remind the audience of the importance of continued political engagement and activism. WhyProhibition.ca creator and Free Marc Campaign organizer Jacob Hunter and myself also spoke about the Free Marc Campaign, and the use of civil disobedience to express onself.

 

All speakers noted that political prisoner Marc Emery was most notably absent from the event, as he is currently imprisoned in the United States for his political message and actions of overgrowing prohibition. Although he is locked away, as long as political pressure to end prohibition continues he is amongst us in spirit.

 

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Time for a long overdue update! The past month has had some very positive events showing that although the path to ending prohibition may be long, we are heading in the right direction.

Nicole Seguin, End Prohibition National Director

PM Stephen Harper has an opportunity to appoint a "vocal critic" of needle exchange as Commissioner of the RCMP. Although hardly surprisingly from the party that challenged InSite's right to operate (a safe injection facility proven to save lives and improve access to addiction treatment), this is one more step in the opposite direction of having a more peaceful and free country.

You can now buy the popular "I Toke & I Vote" buttons and t-shirts through the Cannabis Culture Store, in addition to our very own End Prohibition buttons and tees!

 

To buy, simply visit the online Cannabis Culture Store (www.cannabisculture.com/store) or call the friendly staff at: (604)682-1172

 

Thank you!

Starbucks is sponsoring the Colorado Drug Investigators Association to fight legalization efforts in Colorado. In solidarity with the citizens of Colorado and SAFER, End Prohibition has joined in the boycott of Starbucks.

 

*Note: Less than one week after the boycott began, Starbucks distanced itself from the CDIA and denied giving any money to the organization. The CDIA has taken its' website down.

I hope you were able to enjoy a happy and relaxing holiday season, and are ready for the new year and all the challenges ahead in 2010.

Over the holidays we did a full contact update and ask that you log in at www.EndProhibition.ca to make sure your information is up to date. We want to notify you of upcoming local and provincial events, and need a current email address and postal code to do it! Please let me know if you run into any problems by either email: nicole@endprohibition.ca or by phone: (604) 831-6684.