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OBSERVER QUESNEL - CARIBOO
SINCE 1908
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
VOL. 99 NO. 21
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Day to remember Crowds gather Sunday for the annual Remembrance Day service beginning with the parade from the Legion to the cenotaph. For more photos see PAGE A3. Autumn MacDonald photo
Pot proponent in town to sign up petitioners for Sensible Policing AUTUMN MacDONALD Observer Reporter He’s looking to legalize marijuana – sensibly. Dana Larsen, who last year ran for the leadership of the BC NDP, is hitting up the Gold Pan City to promote the Sensible Policing Act, which would effectively decriminalize cannabis possession in the province. Larsen is speaking to supporters in Quesnel, Wednesday, 7 – 8:30 p.m.,
at the Arts and Recreation Centre. “The Sensible Policing Act directs all police in B.C. to stop spending any time or resources on searching, seizing or arresting anyone for simple cannabis possession,” Larsen said. “The lawyers at Elections BC have confirmed that this legislation is within provincial jurisdiction and suitable for a referendum.” Larsen is leading the
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Sensible BC campaign to have a referendum on the Sensible Policing Act, organizing volunteers to collect the official signatures needed from September to November of 2013. So far, he’s been on tour to 22 B.C. cities and towns since mid-October. “There’s no reason we cannot decriminalize possession in our province,” he said. “In 2003, B.C. joined seven other provinces in
refusing to enforce the Long Gun Registry. “At that time, the attorneys general said they didn’t want to bother with otherwise law-abiding citizens who were in possession of an unregistered long gun. “We’re asking for the same sensible perspective when it comes to people in possession of cannabis.” Larsen feels the recent votes to legalize cannabis
in the US states of Washington and Colorado has given the Sensible BC campaign a solid boost. “I have had dozens of media interviews in the last three days,” he said. “Reporters from around B.C. and across Canada have been calling to find out how we plan to do in B.C. what activists accomplished in Washington and Colorado.” Larsen explained that the Sensible Policing Act is similar to the Washington
initiative. “In Washington, they have legalized possession of up to an ounce of cannabis right away and mandated the state to figure out how to open cannabis shops within one year,” he said. “Our legislation would also decriminalize possession in B.C. and set up a commission to figure out the rules and regulations needed to create a legally regulated system in our province.”
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