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Tommy Chong says he has joined the B.C. NDP to support Dana Larsen's campaign to become the party's next leader.
"Dana is a candidate who has honesty and integrity," the Vancouver-based actor and comedian said in a statement. "He's not your typical politician, he represents the real grassroots of this province."
Chong is best known for being one-half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong.
In 2003 and 2004, he served several months in prison in California after being convicted of selling bongs over the Internet.
Larsen, a marijuana legalization advocate and former leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party, announced on December 29 his intention to campaign for the NDP leadership.
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What a misinformed silly fool
Its the Green Party and the Bloc who should be supported not the Party in charge of the unions of OUR JAILERS !!
WITH NO RE-LEGALIZATION POLICY LIKE THE GREENS OR BLOC !!!
You been an american too long or just maybe smoked too much
It took finally jail for him to snap out of it
and finally actually do something...ANYTHING !! in this war besides exploit the misery most of us have been subjected to
He had been approached for years and turned a blind eye !!!
30 Years they sucked every cent they could out of making us look stupid
Cheech doesn't even touch the stuff
but YES...is addicted to the cash the revival brings
Sorry Hypocrites..ITS TOO LATE !!! TO HAVE ANY CREDIBILITY TO ANYONE BUT THAT OTHER PIMP emery
And he means nothing to the real activists....
Smoke that!!!!
Cheers
This form a guy who agrees with HST go figure
The fact that Tommy spent 9 months in US prison for selling bongs lends some poignancy to this. Tommy knows what it's like to be one the many, many people who have been imprisoned just because they prefer a bong to a bottle of beer.
Tommy Chong is a natural fit for the NDP. He's someone who supports tolerance, compassion and social justice.
A responsible user of psychedelics. Nice.
Infact he is a contender who just may go farther than you think and Dana is definetly a change from having leaders who find themselves behind bars without thinking of limits to boozing and driving that is.
A mailed in ballot could be tampered with but less so that online voting. A mailed in ballot produces a paper trail, something tangible. Online or computer voting allows for unsecured access by a limited amount of people. Black box of proprietary software is ripe for manipulation. Hopefully it won't be Moe doing the counting.
When we goes to a trade mission to Japa, Taiwan, China, Germany, etc... does he have the intellectual capability to understand? or will we be the laughing stock.
How do we not know, that Mr. Larsen's independent thinking---vis-a-vis the marijuana - social cost accounting platforms - put him in the position to meet with "international delegates" and provide the people - on matters of global warming, finance - etc. with more truths - then we are apparently experiencing with the status quo?
What is it about government in BC or Canada or elsewhere - that presumes any of them are really that good at what they do?
We're still killing one another - the money flows uphill more than it did-and most of the western world governments/business - has clearly proven that they cannot sustain market economies -- (recession).
Where is the proof - and I don't know Mr. Larsen from Adam--but whose to say that he and perhaps Tommy Chong - with advice couldn't do as well or better than the regular line-up of establishment schills?
There is NO proof.
The problem is that CEO Jodie Emery is a Director of the BC Green party, which of course will be opposing the NDP in the general election. Surely the director of a political party would be ethically prohibited from this sort of active involvement in a membership drive and leadership campaign of an opposing political party?
I wonder what the BC Greens have to say about this. I can't imagine that they would take it very well if a Director of the BC NDP were to interfere in their leadership campaign in this way.