Pubdate: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 Source: Huntsville Forester, The (CN ON) Copyright: 2012 The Huntsville Forester Contact: http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2430 Author: Russell Barth Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n096/a07.html MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION WILL NOT HAPPEN RE: Reader says Liberals get it right with promise to legalize marijuana, Forester Feb. 1 letter to the editor. As someone who has been up to his eyeballs in pot activism for nine years, I would classify this Liberal vote to legalize pot as nothing more than a bamboozle. The delegates did the right thing, but the party will not. Not one single Liberal candidate has the intelligence or the guts to campaign on this issue because not one single Liberal candidate has the intelligence or the guts to explain to a voter what, exactly, marijuana legalization would even look like! Ask one and see. They don't want to discuss the issue because they quickly find themselves in a conversational quagmire that they can't get out of. The media will also not let them campaign on this issue, as the media - - in general - has a well-established and long-standing anti-pot and pro-police bias. The coverage recently of the "pot not as bad as tobacco" study is a perfect example of that. The media continue to let people lie about the supposed dangers of pot (already debunked by science and history), and give th! e "right" a free ride when they talk wild hyperbole. I am 42 years old and I don't think I will ever see legalized pot in Canada - and I blame the media. If legal pot ever does come, it won't come through Parliament, it will come the same way same sex marriage, abortion, and medical marijuana became legal: through the courts. But then, there have already been seven court rulings that have effectively shot down the prohibition on pot, but the cops, the media, and other judges, simply ignore those rulings, and busts increase by 10,000 every year. So, really, I see little-to-no hope here. Russell Barth, soon-to-be-former federally licensed medical marijuana user. Russell Barth Nepean, ON - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.