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Let’s Talk About Elections

No, not American elections for once, but Canadian elections. The debates for the federal elections are coming up soon, on October 2^nd I believe. There are going to be five leaders tearing at each other, and for the first time the Green party will have a chance to shut those Tories up. The Green party’s leader, Elizabeth May, looks like a friendly candidate, and holds proud in the “neither left, nor right, but in the front” of the political spectrum. The Greens’ main policies include helping the middle class and taxing the corporate, polluting class. They obviously stand strong on saving the ecosystem and keeping a green environment, but their most popular stand has to be on marijuana.

Legalize It

I have nothing against marijuana—my stand is “smoke if you wanna,” but what I hate most is when people walk around saying, ‘Oh, weed isn’t bad, it’s natural.’ Okay, that’s true, it is natural, and so are magic mushrooms and Peyote, and sure there’s nothing wrong with those drugs either. However, there are poisonous mushrooms that are natural too, and go ahead and eat one and you’ll die. Go eat some natural poisonous Daphne berries and you’ll first feel your mouth burning then you’ll go into a coma. The whole point I’m trying to make is I don’t think there’s anything wrong with marijuana, it’s just your main argument for legalization shouldn’t be “it’s natural, how bad can it be?” The Green party says it knows there’s nothing wrong with it, if anything, there are benefits to the wonderful plant, but for some reason their leader says she has never experienced the magical high of the hopefully soon-to-be-legal drug. If she’s so radical, why doesn’t she fess up and tell the Canadian people that she’s actually tried what she’s trying to deem beneficial for society, unless of course her stand on legalizing weed is just a scheme to win over the younger votes.

Green and the Rest

I’m tired of the same lame parties saying they are going to change this or stop that, but in the end, there’s never enough follow through. Sure, Harper decreased a few points on our taxes, and Martin’s party stole a few hundred thousand, if not millions of dollars, but is that really anything new and original? No. Let’s give Green a chance and give high-fives and cheer when we see our new Prime Minister sitting beside Jan Peter Balkenende, the Netherlands Prime Minister, doing their own thing in the corner at the UN meetings, telling Pratibha Patil that she can’t join in on the session because she didn’t bring her own good stuff from India.

 

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This post was submitted by Alice Grey.

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