Marc-Boris St-Maurice
Marc-Boris St-Maurice is an activist, politician and Canadian musician, who has campaigned for many years for the legalization of cannabis, and to facilitate access to the drug for health reasons. He lives in Montreal.
He first became known in the early 1990s as bassist of punk band Grimskunk. It was then that Marc Saint-Maurice received the nickname "Boris".
In 1998, he founded the Bloc Pot, a Quebec provincial political party whose main goal is the decriminalization and eventual legalization of marijuana complete. In 2000, he created the equivalent of the federal Bloc Pot, Marijuana Party, which ran candidates in federal elections.
In February 2005, Saint-Maurice left the Marijuana Party to join the Liberal Party of Canada, arguing that the chances of reaching the objectives pursued by both parties pro-marijuana were better in the then ruling party. The movement for marijuana had actually made some progress under Liberal rule in the late 2000s (decade), but Paul Martin, who succeeded Jean Chrétien as Prime Minister and Liberal leader, had been more conservative on the issue.
At the general election of November 30, 1998, Saint-Maurice finishes fourth out of nine candidates with 985 votes, or 3% of the vote in the riding of Mercier. In an election on October 1, 2001, Saint-Maurice finished 5th out of five candidates, winning 323 votes for the Bloc Pot in the riding of Jonquiere, left vacant by Premier Lucien Bouchard resigned and won on that occasion by Françoise Gauthier Party Quebec Liberal.
On September 11, 2000, in a by-election in Okanagan-Coquihalla, British Columbia, Saint-Maurice finished 6th out of eight candidates with 438 votes as an independent candidate. was elected to the Canadian Alliance.
In the elections of November 27, 2000, Saint-Maurice finished in 4th place with 2156 votes for the Marijuana Party in the riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie (Quebec), behind leader Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Québécois, Jean-Philippe Côté, PLC and Dylan Perceval-Maxwell's Green Party.
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