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Reform MP Vows To Oppose UA If It Makes Pot Legal
Posted by FoM on January 28, 2000 at 10:49:21 PT
By Sheldon Alberts
Source: National Post
One of Reform's highest-ranking MPs yesterday threatened to walk out of the United Alternative conference and campaign against a new party if delegates endorse a controversial policy to legalize marijuana. "If the marijuana resolution goes ahead, I am out of here," said Randy White, Reform's House leader and longtime anti-drug campaigner. 
 "Not only will I not be involved in this United Alternative, I will run against it in the next election," said the MP for Langley-Abbotsford. The UA's policy committee included the marijuana proposal in a bid to make the proposed party more appealing to young Canadians, and to demonstrate it has a libertarian streak. "The prosecution of minor drug offences occupies an inordinate amount of our police forces' time, effort and fiscal resources," the committee proposal says. "We will investigate the advisability of decriminalizing possession and use of marijuana by adults. We will continue to prosecute those who traffic in illicit substances." The federal government is currently allowing marijuana use for medical purposes in trial cases. Mr. White, one of the few Reform MPs yet to endorse or oppose the UA, said he believes it is a mistake to open the door at all to legalized pot. "I will spend a lot of time with hundreds and hundreds of people across the country on anti-drug issues. I couldn't possibly go for that position," said Mr. White. "I know too many people who have been addicted to drugs who tell me that it is the wrong thing to do. It's a bad move." Mr. White has been under pressure from pro-UA Reformers to publicly support the drive to create a new party, but the B.C. MP says he will not take a stand until he sees the final policy package. OTTAWA Published: January 28, 2000Copyright © Southam Inc. Cannabis News Articles On Canada:http://www.google.com/search?q=cannabisnews+Canada&num=10&sa=Google+Search
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Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on January 28, 2000 at 13:51:11 PT
Aw, poor ba-by!
Isn't it amazing how so much of the public behavior of the prohibitionists resembles that of spoiled children?This MP is so piqued, he going home and taking his toys with him. In fact, he's so put out that he is going to work against the UA. (So there! Bphphphphpt!)McCaffrey blathers on about cannabis having no medical use. A lawsuit forces him to conduct tests (the IoM Report) that prove all his statements wrong. He just ignores it like a small child who, despite all the proof to the contrary, stubbornly insists he is right. (I am too right! I am, I am, I am!)Clinton, Reno, and Shalala are so miffed that voters *created a law* in California and Arizona allowing for medicinal cannabis use that they threaten doctors with imprisonment. (I'm gonna get you fuh dat!)For supposed adults, the DrugWarriors seem to be in drastic need of having their backsides warmed for their unseemly behavior.
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