For Immediate release: Media / Announcement

VICTORIA, BC - Local resident Sam Vekemans has just about completed a project he calls 'Unschedule Cannabis for a SAFER Canada'. The project to find out the cannabis policy stance of all members of Parliament (currently 304). By doing an internet search with the terms 'marijuana' or 'marihuana', or 'cannabis' Sam says that the stance is sometimes easy to find. Many members of parliament have spoken in the House of Commons mentioning Marijuana, and he credits OpenParliament.ca a website which organizes the official parliament Hansard of everything said, which makes it easy to find. 

Further, Sam has created a set of 10 Google Slideshow presentations which include a direct quote along with the MPs photo, riding and the source date, title, author (where applicable) and a direct URL for reference.

Sam has put this information as CC-0 meaning its public domain so anyone is free to use these slides in any way they wish. Currently, the slides get downloaded as .png images and uploaded to the projects blog http://unschedulecannabis.blogspot.ca and to the projects Facebook page.

He also uploads the images to MPs facebook page as well as tweets from his @Acrosscanada twitter account to the MPs. ''The best way that people can be of help is simply sharing the posts and slides to their networks so to get the information out'' Sam says that anyone is free to download and share and reuse the information.

UPDATE: The MPs statements can be found on SlideShare.  Please share across social media to get these statements known.

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