Ex-Marijuana Party leader to run for NDP in federal election

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The former leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party is making another bid for a seat in the House of Commons in the federal election scheduled in 2004.
But this time, Dana Larsen — buoyed by federal New Democrat leader Jack Layton’s call to legalize marijuana —is planning to run for the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast seat under the NDP banner.

Larsen, who lives in Gibsons, has been the editor of Cannibis Culture magazine since its inception in 1995. He ran for the federal Marijuana Party in the 2000 federal election and the B.C. Marijuana Party in the 2001 provincial vote.

“That kind of decriminalization is a half-assed, useless measure in my estimation,” Larsen said. “To us, if you can possess it but you can’t buy it or grow it yourself, there’s a real hypocrisy there. We all (Marijuana Party) oppose that. We think that decriminalization bill is a joke and we’re glad it didn’t pass.”