Volunteering With The GMMT
For those still interested in volunteering for the
9th Annual Global Marijuana March please note this very important date
to get involved!
Thursday
April 19th - 6:30pm @ Queens Park (middle Statue w/benches)
We could use more help with the following:
PARADE
SET UP
CLEAN UP
SPREADING THE WORD !!!!
Thanks to those who already picked up their packages. It's going to be
a
great March! See you there...
If you would like to become a member of the Global
Marijuana March Toronto
organization, you can contact us at: info@cannabisweek.ca, and give us
your details and background. Key volunteer positions are still available.
This is an exciting time in Canada for cannabis law
reform.. The GMMT organization is a great group of dedicated and passionate
people, with terrific morale and a real sense of community in purpose.
If you want to enjoy GMMT during the weekend of the
event but still have to be involved in one of the most important civil
rights issues of your time, you can help us promote the event by distributing
fliers and posters within your community.
E-mail us
and we'll set you up as the event draws near.
Download
a volunteer form here
Past Events
February 23, 2006
Volunteer Info Nite
Kindred Café 7 Breadlebane Ave Toronto 7-9pm
March 30,2006
Volunteer Nite
Neutral 349 College Ave @ Augusta
7pm-10pm
April 20,2006 @ 8:00 pm
Volunteer Nite
Location: The
Hot Box Cafe 191A Baldwin Street
This is the night when you get to see the new look, the posters and get
your first peek at what is going be the best Global Marijuana March Toronto
has ever seen!
April 22, 2006
The Hwy 420 Project
The official launch of all Global Marijuana March of Toronto promotions
materials, we will launch in Niagara Falls and throughout Ontario and
Canada...let the postering begin!!!
The movement for legalization
of marijuana and hemp is facing an uphill battle. Though some decriminalization
measures have been introduced by the government of Canada, many activists
believe that decriminalizing marijuana is not enough.
Meanwhile, everywhere in North America, countless
medical and recreational users,
as well as growers, still face persecution from police and employers.
Recent events
in Ontario, Alberta, and all over the United States, show that our rights
as users of
marijuana and hemp are practically nonexistent.
This is why we have to continuously remind ourselves:
just because once a year we
are allowed by the powers that be to gather together for a celebration
of this wonderful plant,the fight is far from over!!
So roll a big one and get involved! Here are some
of the many things you can do to
defend your rights.
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Write
to every Member of Parliament and demand complete
legalization of marijuana!
Let them know that the people who elected
them demand that the plant that has medical, industrial,
energy and recreational uses
must be accessible to all that need it! |
List of Members of Canadian Parliament
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Canadian Civil Liberties
Association |
Since
September 11th...While it always behooves us to keep an
open mind about any new measures, our open mind should be accompanied
by a cool head and a skeptical disposition. If we were to needlessly
surrender any of our precious freedoms, we could wind up awarding
the terrorists a gratuitous victory.
A. ALAN BOROVOY |
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Media Awareness
Project
A
worldwide network dedicated to drug policy reform. We inform
public opinion and promote balanced media coverage. |
We believe
that prohibition is a system which unleashes powerful forces,
most notably the illegal drug markets, that inevitably make the
underlying drug problem worse while adding a series of costly
unintended side effects, including damage to the very values upon
which free nations have been founded. |
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Marijuana
Party of Canada |
The
Marijuana Party began with the primary concern that the
Federal government should stop criminalizing cannabis.
Cannabis
is a matter of Federal law because it is criminalized.
If
possession and cultivation of cannabis was no longer criminal,
then the only remaining role for the Federal government would
be
to possibly use the Federal spending powers to subsidize cannabis. |
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Frank Discussion
is intended as
a resource for people interested in educating themselves about
cannabis and
the politics that keep this plant illegal.
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"We're
not decriminalizing marijuana, to be technical, it
will remain a criminal offense. What we are putting in place are
alternative penalties, in using the Contraventions Act.
I admit that using "decrim" at the beginning was not
a good start, but over the past few months we have been quite
clear about what we're doing." [Martin
Cauchon - former Justice Minister, during questioning
by the House of Commons Committee on Illegal Drugs regarding
the proposed "decriminalization" bill. November 2003.] |
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We
will testify in court how harsh the current regulations really
are on patients who find themselves in need of cannabis. We
will testify what crap the government tried to pass off as medical
grade pot and why growing a variety of marijuana strains is
absolutely crucial to relieving pain. We would have preferred
to stay in the shadows, grow our pot, pay our taxes and be mute,
we were happy with what we achieved so far but here we are and
here we will testify. |
Follow Mark
of Toronto420.com's
Constitutional Challenge
to the current version of the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations
which currently govern all legal medical cannabis issues
in Canada |
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Drug Policy Alliance
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The Alliance is the leading organization working to end the
war on drugs in the United States. We envision new drug policies
based on science, compassion, health and human rights and a
just society in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions
of today are no more. |
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Educators For Sensible Drug Policy
has members in Canada, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand,
Jamaica and Japan. |
We are working to create
a Speaker's Bureau of knowledgeable and articulate educators who
can describe the impact of these failed drug policies on things
like safety, the relationship between student/teacher, teacher/administration
and student/administration and also describe the human and financial
costs of current drug policies. Unfortunately,
our schools are often times the battlegrounds upon which the
"War on Drugs" is waged, with our children always
ending up the victims. EFSDP is committed to combating the Higher
Education Act Amendment, D.A.R.E. in our schools, and the drug
testing of students who wish to participate in extra-curricular
activities. |
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
is a US-based organization
of current and former
law enforcement workers who support
drug regulation, not prohibition.
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LEAP's
goals are: (1) To educate the public, the media, and policy makers,
to the failure of current drug policy by presenting a true picture
of the history, causes and effects of drug use and the elevated
crime rates‹more properly related to drug prohibition than to
drug pharmacology‹and (2) To restore the public's respect for
police, which has been greatly diminished by law enforcement's
involvement in imposing drug prohibition. |
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Canadian Cannabis Coalition
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This
portal is provided as an information clearinghouse where experienced
leaders, experts and pioneers in the diverse cannabis industry
can share knowledge with all stakeholders, law makers/enforcers,
the public and journalists, and to augment the community of participating
organizations within the coalition. |
The
aims of the Foundation include:
- acting as a forum for the exchange
of views among those interested in reform of drug policies
- serving as a vehicle for sharing
those views and for discussing significant drug policy issues
with government, the public, other organizations and the media,
and
- where necessary, recommending
alternatives that will make Canada's drug laws and policies
effective and humane.
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Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy |
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