FOUNDER OF MARIJUANA PARTY SAYS 'NATURAL CHOICE' FOR HIM TO JOIN LIBERALS

The founder of the Marijuana party has joined the Liberals in his fight to
legalize the controversial weed. Marc-Boris St. Maurice said he will be
"showing off his new membership card" this weekend at the Liberal policy
convention in Ottawa, where he hopes his new political allegiance will spur
momentum for the marijuana movement. "I pretty much realized it had to go
to the next level," he said in a phone interview yesterday. "The Liberal
party was the natural choice." Mr. St. Maurice ran in Prime Minister Paul
Martin's riding in 2004, but received only 221 votes. He said his interest
in the Liberal party does not extend beyond legalizing marijuana. "It's
obviously for the marijuana issue," he said.