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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Trade bloc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A trade bloc is a large free trade zone or near-free trade zone formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements.
Typically trade pacts that define such a bloc specify formal adjudication bodies, e.g.
One of the first economic blocs was the German Customs Union (Zollverein) initiated in 1834, which formed the basis of the German Confederation and subsequently empire that came in 1871.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Trade_bloc   (203 words)

  
 Marijuana Party of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He started by creating the Bloc pot, a Quebec political party and eventually, as the current law prohibiting the possession of cannabis is a federal law, founded the federal Marijuana Party.
In addition to the Bloc Pot party in Quebec, Marijuana Parties have several separate provincial counterparts, most notably, the British Columbia Marijuana Party which received over 3% of the vote in the 2001 provincial election, and the Marijuana Party of Nova Scotia.
The Bloc Pot and the Federal Marijuana Party work together, however, the B.C. Marijuana Party and the Federal Marijuana Party do not work together.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marijuana_Party_of_Canada   (657 words)

  
 CNN.com - High times at new Montreal marijuana cafe - Nov. 29, 2003
Pot smoking is illegal in Canada, although Ottawa has proposed legislation that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Hugo St-Onge, leader of Quebec's Bloc Pot party, was all smiles as he cut a red, fl and green ribbon and declared the cafe officially open.
The Bloc Pot party was formed in 1998 with a platform to legalize marijuna in Quebec.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/11/29/canada.potcafe.ap/index.html   (396 words)

  
 03/11/97 -- News: Pot legalization movement picks up steam
The Bloc Pot is being organized by 28-year-old Montreal musician Marc St. Maurice, a six-year veteran of marijuana activism.
By putting pot on the political agenda, Duprey says activists are looking for a gradual change in official attitudes towards marijuana.
Bloc Pot can have an effect because of the polarization of politics in Quebec," he said.
www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/97-3/issue10/pot.html   (636 words)

  
 Bloc Pot may decide Quebec Provincial Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As of March 17,2003, the 5-year-old Bloc Pot has amassed 75 candidates for the April 14 Quebec Provincial Elections, and is seeking another 50 to fill every electoral district in the province (applicants may contact the Bloc Pot at the phone number, below).
Regardless of how many seats the Bloc Pot captures, the power to spoil a win imparts vast political clout to the Bloc Pot, drawing attention to the issue of ending prohibition.
The Bloc Pot hopes to score points with it's two-policy platform, which includes ending pot prohibition and widespread reforms of the government and electoral system.
www.cannabisculture.com /articles/2887.html   (476 words)

  
 Culture
The average pot smoker may not know or care what type of weed is in the dime bag, so long as it gets him lit.
Civic Election Gone To Pot The alleged pot supplier to the Da Kine Smoke and Beverage Shop on Commercial Drive, which sold marijuana over the counter, is one of 36 candidates battling for 10 seats on city council in the November civic election.
Crohn's Relief Brought Pot Activist To Cause She was suffering with agonizing symptoms and side effects when an old friend recommended marijuana to ease her afflictions.
cannabislink.ca /news/currentaff05/index.php?label=14&page=4   (1196 words)

  
 Bloc
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Writers' Bloc does not seek power for its own sake.
www.plexxa.com /s/bloc   (149 words)

  
 The Buzz Across Canada: Coffee Houses Go To Pot
The Bloc Pot's project suffered an unexpected setback yesterday when the landlord of the café that was to open Oct. 1 got wind of the move and complained he hadn't given his approval.
Whatever the style, pot proponents hope that, at a time when other restaurants are trying to curb smoking, theirs will be places where smokers of a certain type are welcome.
So your point is that---although pot is less addictive than alcohol and, unlike alcohol, does not increase violence or lead to fatal overdose---pot should be illegal because of the sort of users with whom it is stereotypically associated.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/978304/posts   (2798 words)

  
 Pot Cafe in N.B. Inspires Montreal Activists
The media are often all too eager to trot out hackneyed gags about memory loss and snack-food cravings, rather than noting the genuine progress made by the movement, such as recent court decisions.
The Bloc Pot is fielding candidates in nearly half of Quebec's ridings in the provincial election.
Bloc Pot leader Hugo St-Onge said he hopes to open at least one marijuana café in Montreal within four years - one that will go further than New Brunswick's "user-friendly" establishment and actually sell weed.
www.freedomtoexhale.com /nb.htm   (328 words)

  
 Pot Party
Recently, the 28-year-old musician and pot activist has experienced symptoms that include increased political awareness and a desire to participate in weird election-night rituals.
At press time, the Bloc Pot had accumulated 850 names and was preparing its political strategy.
In the event that members of the Bloc Pot are elected, Boris says they'll find a way to make marijuana a part of every National Assembly debate.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/010898/nm1.html   (858 words)

  
 Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Marijuana Party of Canada
The Marijuana Party of Canada is the federal counterpart to Quebec's marijuana party, Bloc Pot.
It should be noted that Marc Emery - the founder and leader of the BC Marijuana party, and a man the media has appropriately called the "Prince of Pot" for his incredible influence in the marijuana movement - has publicly advised against voting for the Marijuana Party of Canada.
His reasoning is that, because the NDP is in favour of marijuana legalization, and because the NDP has a greater chance of winning seats, the best strategy for legalization advocates is to vote for the NDP (see the BC Marijuana Party site for more on this, including an interview with NDP leader Jack Layton).
www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/marijuana.htm   (343 words)

  
 Marijuana Party of Canada – Parti Marijuana du Canada | What this Party is Not.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Marijuana Party is united with the Bloc Pot provincial party in Québec.
The Leader of the Bloc Pot is the French Connection of the Marijuana Party.
While the Federal Marijuana Party is united with the Bloc Pot in Québec, and the Nunavut Marijuana Party, it is very divided from the B.C. Marijuana Party, due to their support of the Federal NDP.
www.marijuanaparty.com /article.php3?id_article=158   (944 words)

  
 Ottawa XPress - News - Julius Grey takes pot long shot
He was busted at the Bloc's Café Maryjane last March, his eighth such arrest, but this one differed in a déjà vu kind of way.
In the late 1970s, the MacDonald Commission of Inquiry found that the RCMP had infiltrated political parties in the search for "terrorists." In so doing, they violated one of the tenets of democracy, which holds that citizens must be free to associate without having their every move and thought under police surveillance.
Personally, I think that pot law reform is a pipe dream but it's the cops who were high here if they thought they were doing anything other than pleading the case for their own increasing irrelevance and stupidity.
www.ottawaxpress.ca /news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=4652   (1459 words)

  
 Marijuana Search Engine results for pot
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www.poteh.com /search.cgi?string=pot   (231 words)

  
 The Front: August 23, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
"I found out the Bloc Pot is not interested in growing as a political party and I'm a little disappointed with that." Granger would not confirm whether he would join the Greens.
From their Montreal headquarters, the Bloc Pot say they had a difference of opinion.
Roy says the Bloc Pot is trying to reorganize so that the party will have no leader and all decisions will be made by consensus.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2001/082301/news3.html   (232 words)

  
 cannabisnews.com: New Montreal Cafe To Allow Patrons To Smoke Pot
They have warned they intend to enforce the law because pot possession is still illegal.St-Onge says consumption and possession will be tolerated at the cafe but there will be no trafficking.
The space is intended to double as the political offices of the Bloc Pot, which is lobbying to make marijuana legal.
Similar pot cafes have opened in a few other places in Canada, and charges have been laid in some cases.
www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread17881.shtml   (798 words)

  
 Pot - Pol Pot killer file
Why pot gives you the munchies Columbia University scientists are gaining a new understanding of why marijuana gives you the munchies.
The Flower Pot is a florist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The neti pot should be used for parching neti (jalneti) understand the points to be observed in neti pot and learn more on neti.
ifindonline.com /?q=pot   (337 words)

  
 [WCLP] Marijuana Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Bloc Pot is officially registered in Quebec and marijuana parties are being organized in Ontario and Alberta.
Marijuana is more toxic and carcinogenic than cigarettes, she said, but while cigarettes are less and less accepted by society, pot advocates want to legitimize smoking marijuana.
Gillespie said some of the Marijuana Party candidates "don't even smoke marijuana." He said he doesn't smoke pot or cigarettes but is opposed to the "jihad" against smokers.
www.vex.net:99 /pipermail/wclp/2001-March/000488.html   (630 words)

  
 Bloc Pot Leader Complains Of Police Sting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
St-Onge was the first witness called in a pre-trial motion hearing in the case of party founder Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who was charged with marijuana possession after being arrested at Bloc Pot headquarters one year ago.
Police officer Victor Melo recalled on the stand yesterday how he and a partner became members for a day, but that he thought it was a sort of commercial co-operative rather than a political party.
"It has to be a severe crime like murder to justify such action, but not possession of pot when there are discussions of legalizing it," he added.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v05/n470/a01.html   (293 words)

  
 Bloc Pot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
1) " Pot" -- in the term Bloc Pot
Pot is an alternate name for pood, a Russian unit of mass of about 16 kg
Commonly appearing connections are : Bloc Publishing, Bloc Publishing, Bloc Talent Agency, Bloc Talent Agency, Bloc Voting, Bloc Voting, Blocage, Blocage, Bloch Agency, Bloch Agency, Bloch Arena, Bloch Arena, Bloch Ballet, Bloch Ballet, Bloch Ballet Slippers, Bloch Ballet Slippers, Bloch Brothers, Bloch Brothers, Bloch Cancer, Bloch Cancer
www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/11678-bloc-pot.html   (86 words)

  
 MarijuanaNews.Com, Freedom has nothing to fear from the truth
Ontario Provincial Police have in their possession, a recent photograph of the Canadian Alliance leader and what appears to be a marijuana joint.
The photo will be "Exhibit A" when Bloc Pot head and Interim-leader of the fledgling federal Marijuana Party, Marc-Boris St-Maurice, and a colleague, face marijuana possession charges in an Ontario court later this year.
As for the controversial Day photo, which led to a police search and subsequent charges against he and Bloc Pot colleague, Hugo St-Onge, St-Maurice insists it was all a joke.
www.marijuananews.com /news.php3?sid=263   (1299 words)

  
 It's the Chronic - what? - Polls of Zobgy! | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
If you legalized pot tomorrow the US would not go spinning out into orbit, the economy would not crash and (as dios presumes) we would not have a nation sitting at home waiting around to take surveys (between bong hits, of course) to fill their newfound jobless free time.
The only way in which pot has a deleterious effect is in enforcement of the ridiculous laws that make it a crime to possess a plant that makes you a little goofy.
It has always seemed to me that the only sense in which pot smoking acts a "gateway" drug, is that you often have to associate with a criminal element to obtain it, one sometimes interested in moving more hazardous products with better margins.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/50144   (10715 words)

  
 Dr Bongs Weblog Entry - 12/01/2003: "Police crash marijuana cafe's opening"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The cafe does not sell pot but people can bring their own to smoke, said St-Onge, who called the day a success despite the arrests.
Organizers' plans to open a pot cafe at a nearby location last September drew howls of protest from the landlord and nearby businesses.
The government might as well just make it legal b/c people are still smokin in the Us and the amount of people smoking pot will still be less than the amount of people who have a beer at the bar or with dinner.
www.drbongs.com /news/archives/00000361.html   (1324 words)

  
 ScurvyDawg.com - Montreal 'bring your own pot cafe' opens
Owners of Chez Marijane will allow patrons to smoke pot on the premises, but they won't be selling the drug.
The space will double as the political offices of the Bloc Pot, which says the cafe will be used to push for the legalization of marijuana.
City councillor Nicolas Tetrault has warned the activists that police will intervene if people are caught smoking pot at the new cafe.
www.scurvydawg.com /article.php?story=20031129145622488   (223 words)

  
 Quebec Pot Users Vow They'll Keep On Tokin'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Top Court Ruling Burns Lobby Groups; They'll Make Marijuana Election Issue While the country's highest court has ruled possession of even small amounts of marijuana remains illegal, self-proclaimed pot-heads in Quebec say their battle is far from over.
It's time for pot-heads to rise up and fight for their rights," Marc-Boris St. Maurice of the Bloc Pot marijuana party said yesterday after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the country isn't going to pot.
Flanked by Hugo Saint-Onge, the leader of the Bloc Pot political party, St. Maurice likened the ruling to a "slap in the face." The pot debate has dragged on for nearly 30 years now, ever since the LeDain commission recommended dropping criminal sanctions for marijuana users.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v03.n1977.a10.html   (516 words)

  
 Sphinx Music News
After much headbanging, the Sphinx gives one half of an endorsement to the Parti Liberal du Quebec and the other half to the Parti Bloc Pot du Quebec, whose platform endorses an end to cannabis prohibition.
Although legally you are not permitted to vote for half a candidate, half an endorsement is allowed.
Also, in the unlikely event of a Pot Party victory, there will be pot parties all over Quebec.
www.highwayhome.com /music_news/quebec_election_2003.html   (445 words)

  
 run_4_office
Everywhere it is the same phenomenon - marijuana activists lifting themselves from beneath the jack-boot of oppression and carrying their joints like torches of freedom into federal elections.
The torch of Canada's Marijuana Party was sparked by the efforts of Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who founded Quebec's Bloc Pot.
The Bloc Pot won over 10,000 votes in Quebec's 1998 election, enough to get them some government subsidies for their future campaigns.
www.njweedman.com /run_4_office.htm   (1169 words)

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