Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice

Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice is a politicking activist, and Canadian Musicien , established with Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It militates since many years for the decriminalisation of the cannabis, for changes in the Canadian legislation, as to facilitate the access of this soft drug to the people who need some for health reasons.

Musical career

It was initially made known at the beginning of the Années 1990 as bass player of the punk group Grimskunk. It is at that time that Marc Saint-Maurice inherits the nickname “Boris”.

Political advance

In 1998, it founded the Bloc Pot, a provincial political party Québécois whose main aim is the Décriminalisation, and possibly the complete Légalisation of the Marijuana. In 2000, it created the federal equivalent of the Block Pot, the Parti Marijuana, which introduces candidates to the Canadian federal elections .

February 28th, 2005, Saint-Maurice left the Party Marijuana to become member of the Liberal party of Canada, estimating that the chances to arrive at the aims in view by the two parties pro-marijuana were better in the party then with the capacity. The movement for the marijuana had actually carried out some projections under the liberal reign, with the turning of the years 2000, but Paul Martin, successor of Jean Chrétien at the post of Prime Minister, had been shown more preserving on the question.

Electoral results

Provincial elections (Quebec)

At the time of the general election of November 30th, 1998, Saint-Maurice finishes 4th on nine candidates, with 985 votes, that is to say 3% of the vote in the district of Draper.
In a by-election on October 1st, 2001, Saint-Maurice finishes 5th on five candidates, collecting 323 votes for the Block Pot in the district of Jonquière, left vacant by outgoing the Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard and gained on this occasion by Francoise Gauthier of the Liberal party of Quebec.

Federal elections (Canada)

the September 11th 2000, in a by-election in Okanagan-Coquihalla, as a Colombia-British, Saint-Maurice finishes 6th on 8 candidates with 438 votes like independent candidate. Stockwell Day is elected for the Canadian Alliance.
With the elections of November 27th, 2000, Saint-Maurice finishes in 4th place with 2156 votes for the Party Marijuana in the district of Bay-tree-Holy-Marie (Quebec), behind Gilles Duceppe, chief of the Québécois Bloc, Jean-Philippe Côté, of PLC and Dylan Perceval-Maxwell of the Green Parti.
the May 13rd 2002, at the time of partial in St-Léonard-St-Michel (Quebec), St-Maurice collects 197 votes and finishes last for the Party Marijuana.
With the elections of June 28th, 2004, in Lasalle-Émard (Quebec), it finishes 6th and the last for the Party Marijuana with 349 votes, in the district of the Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Club Compassion and militancy

Saint-Maurice also knew contentions with justice when it was voluntary part-time with the Club Compassion, an organization rested by Louise Caroline Bergeron and Caroline Doyer which provides marijuana to seriously sick people, under presentation of a doctor's certificate. The first Club Compassion of Montreal, based on the example of those of Toronto and the Colombia-British were open on the street Rachel, in Montreal, near a police station.

Following a police raid, Saint-Maurice and his colleague Alexandre Néron were accused of possession and drug trafficking. The trial attorneys that the Canadian legislation left a gap in the law, authorizing certain individuals to have cannabis at medicinal ends, but not providing the product in question. The Judge Andre Cadieux made stop the procedures against the two men in December 2002.

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