The British Columbia Marijuana Party needs you!

The British Columbia Marijuana Party needs you!

The BC Marijuana Party is gearing up for a provincial election on May 12, 2009. The BCMP is gearing up for a big campaign, and are looking for running in all 85 ridings across BC! If you want to get involved, email Jacob Hunter today. Click here to fill out a BCMP membership form; join us as we end prohibition!

We need Candidates to run for the BCMP

The BCMP is looking for candidates for ridings across BC. If you want to represent the BC Marijuana Party and fight for legalization in the next election, email Jacob Hunter. Candidates must submit 75 signatures and a $250 deposit to Elections BC to run.

Don't forget to donate as well! A $100 Dollar donation only costs you $25!

The British Columbia Marijuana Party:
A Commitment To Cannabis And Justice

The BC Marijuana Party believes that democratic societies such as Canada should allow for and provide individuals with the most freedom possible. The only legitimate criminal prohibitions relating to individual conduct are those necessary to prevent significant harm being done unto others.

Marijuana prohibition is unjust and illegitimate, and must be repealed. The persecution of the cannabis community has had terrible consequences. We have criminalized millions of our fellow Canadians merely because they prefer cannabis to coffee, or wine. Along the way, we've spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying to stomp out drugs, succeeding only in creating a vast black market economy. Marijuana prohibition does not reduce demand, nor does it reduce supply.

Prohibition is a completely failed social policy, yet our leaders – including the BC Liberal government – are not advocating for repeal. Instead, they want to ramp up prohibition, jail more people, seize more homes, take more children from parents, perpetuate anti-drug lies: simply put, a US-style War on Drugs, in Canada. This prohibitionist campaign does not end at persecuting merely the cannabis culture – other marginalized groups are victims of societal intolerance. The BCMP is ready to stand up for their rights. We are a party of inclusion. We respect people and our differences. We believe in justice.

The BCMP also believes that government has a responsibility to the people, and must be accountable, because without accountability democracy becomes a tyranny run by the privileged minority, corporations, lobbyists, and big party machines. When a majority of Canadians favor reforming our marijuana laws but their wishes are ignored by the government, we have a party in power that is not accountable to the people.

In British Columbia, it is time for change. The Liberal government should be calling for cannabis legalization, as marijuana is BC's biggest cash crop and a substantial number of residents earn their living in the cannabis trade. Canna-tourism is flourishing as BC's reputation for combining a beautiful tolerant environment spreads throughout the world – yet our friends and family continue to be persecuted and jailed, and instead of calling for their release, the BC Liberal government is scheming up new ways to persecute our culture and increasing funding for anti-marijuana initiatives. This must stop, and the BCMP is here to ensure that it does.

With your help, we can win the fight against prohibition, and Canada can become an example for tolerant, compassionate, and fact-based cannabis policy worldwide.

Overgrow the Government!

Marc Emery,
BCMP President & Leader

• Please join the party by visiting the BCMP Headquarters at Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters, 307 West Hastings Street, downtown Vancouver BC. Donate to the BCMP by sending checks or money orders to: BCMP, 307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC, V6B 1H6. Residents of BC receive a lucrative provincial tax credit when they donate!

The BC Marijuana Party is located at Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters (CCHQ) in the heart of beautiful Vancouver, BC. Inside you'll find the new BC Marijuana Party Headquarters, the BCMP Vapour Lounges. You can use a vaporizer in the comfort of our colourful, lively and popular BCMP Vapour Lounges. You may even get the chance to meet Marc Emery if he takes a break from Cannabis Culture Magazine, produced in the basement of CCHQ where Pot.tv Studios is also based. Come on down and join the BCMP!