'FLASH' GORDON ENTERS CITY POLITICS

There's been a defection within the ranks of the B.C. Marijuana Party.

Well, kind of. John Patrick Gordon, a.k.a. 'Flash', has thrown his hemp hat
into the ring of Vancouver city politics, running for council as part of
the PEPSE Generation Civic Pot party.

Gordon says he's not abandoning embattled pot activist Marc Emery, but
doing it to add "another vantage by which to topple ... [the] U.S. drug
czar's drug war monolith."

Gordon previously contested the last two provincial elections in the
Vancouver-Kensington riding. This spring, he finished with 245 votes.