Written by Peter McIntyre 107.5 KISSFM Friday, 20 September 2013 06:01
Organizers say the Sensible BC campaign is off to a good start in Vernon. Marijuana advocates are trying to collect half a million signatures in BC by December 5th to force a provincial referendum on decriminalizing pot possession. Vernon organizer Boyd Goble says they need 42-hundred names for the required 10 percent. "The stigma (of marijuana) is still a bit of an issue for us. We're all 100 percent for it but not everybody else is and some people who are supporting it want to support quietly because they're scared," Goble tells Kiss FM. Goble says they're at one percent support now. "We're only into our second week and the momentum I think is going to start to build." Goble says 80 year old Donald Watt is one of their canvassers who has been working in the area around the Schubert Centre. "It helps. Having an 80 year old retired professor approaching other seniors is a lot different than having a 20 year old with a hoop in his ear. I mean we're people too, but it's perception, right?" The petition can be signed at Kush Organics at 3004 31st Street, with possible new sites added soon.
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