Don Briere Interview - Strain Alert - Best Of Vancouver Award - Free Weed VOL. 1 NO. 1 Don Briere “Basically, I have nothing to hide and I don’t lie to Revenue Canada.” Roy Berger “It’s so much easier that way, isn’t it?” DB “Yeah. Yeah. And so the bottom line is, is we have to turn this around. I talk about the tax man, tax part, tax people who don’t pay taxes, all this kind of shit, right? So to me it’s more important to use our cops, our police to go after the bad peo- ple. The police can go after the bad people who do human trafficking and prey on people. That to me is the more important thing. We don’t need them to chase us.” D on Briere owns Weeds Glass & Gifts, a chain of over 20 marijuana dispensaries located in many cities through out Canada. He once went to jail for operating over 30 grow-ops using 77 thousand high pressure bulbs. Currently he signs many cheques, employs over a hundred people, and requires receipts for the buying and selling of cannabis. Lately he has engaged the city of Vancouver and Abbotsford with Charter challenges regarding the unconsti- tutionality of their marijuana dispensary laws. On July 28th I had the opportunity to talk to Don while he was in Ottawa and this is the text of that interview. “ The cost of one person in a federal prison can pay the tuition fees for twenty-two of our kids. So why are you putting marijuana people, non-violent people who want a job and to pay taxes, in jail? ” N e w s
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Don Briere Interview - Stra in Alert - Best Of Vancouver Award - Free Weed
VOL. 1NO. 1
Don Briere “Basically, I have nothing to hide and I don’t lie to Revenue Canada.”
Roy Berger “It’s so much easier that way, isn’t it?” DB “Yeah. Yeah. And so the bottom line is, is we have to turn this around. I talk about the tax man, tax part, tax people who don’t pay taxes, all this kind of shit, right? So to me it’s more important to use our cops, our police to go after the bad peo-ple. The police can go after the bad people who do human trafficking and prey on people. That to me is the more important thing. We don’t need them to chase us.”
Don Briere owns Weeds Glass & Gifts, a chain of over 20 marijuana dispensaries located in many cities through out Canada. He once went to jail for operating over 30 grow-ops using 77 thousand high pressure bulbs. Currently he signs many cheques, employs over
a hundred people, and requires receipts for the buying and selling of cannabis. Lately he has engaged the city of Vancouver and Abbotsford with Charter challenges regarding the unconsti-
tutionality of their marijuana dispensary laws. On July 28th I had the opportunity to talk to Don while he was in Ottawa and this is the text of that interview.
“The cost of one person in a federal prison can pay the tuition fees for twenty-two of our kids. So why are you putting marijuana people, non-violent people who want
a job and to pay taxes, in jail?”
N ews
This has been an excerpt from Roy Berger’s interview with Don Briere,
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RB “You are totally engaged in a non-violent issue.”
DB “Of course, but the thing is in the pot business there’s too many people who have come to the game. The first and foremost in the past, was making it illegal. So I don’t know if you are aware but there was a little article about someone from Watergate…”
RB “Oh, Nixon, Erlichman…”
DB “Yeah, yeah, Erlichman. They were talking about it and I just happened to notice this little quote and what it said was they criminalise groups of people and associated them with heroin and marijuana. Blacks and marijuana. And, and the thing is a minuscule detail that’s extremely important to me anyway. See over the years we have been trying to educate them. They knew about it see so it was a deliberate thing. It was deliberately done and that’s a really disgusting criminal act.”
RB “But don’t you think that back then, marijuana was much more associated with Marxism, communism and the counter culture in general?”
DB “Yeah but not now. Read the article. We don’t even have to speculate about that. They were specifically for hippies and the war protesters okay? So that’s who they were target-ing. This was the important thing.”
RB “To break the back of the war resistance.”
DB “Yeah exactly because you know how many people were against the war in Vietnam? And you know how many people died there? Oh, God. So tell me about this. For example, there were certain recommendations in 1972.”
RB “The Le Dain Commission?”
DB “Of course so again, now picture that and picture Colo-rado after two years. What’s going on in Colorado? The police no longer have to arrest, transport, jail, do paperwork…”
RB “And they’re getting a healthy 29% sales tax.”
DB “Look at that. And that’s an amazing thing so not only is the money staying in the community where before all those millions of dollars were coming to a select few and they would, you know, spend in on whatever, mansions, or aircraft or get it out of the country. And now they spend local, there is revenue generated for the government. The cost of one person in a Federal prison can pay the tuition fees for twenty-two of our kids. So that’s part of what about the children. So why are you putting marijuana people, non-violent people who want a job and to pay taxes in jail?”
DB “Again, when we talk to anybody especially the police. We tell them that not only do we pay all the taxes every-body else does, a considerable amount but we drain money away from organized crime who buy guns, heroin, cocaine, shoot at people. Human trafficking, okay? If they can get our kids addicted to some kind of drug they will, and that’s where human trafficking comes in. So again, police officers in Vancouver and especially Abbotsford. You want to do an interview? Do a phone interview with Police Chief Jim Doxer. The mayor had been ordering him, ordering him, to go in and total my stores in Abbotsford and he’s refusing. Why? He’s too
busy handling the shoot outs and there are shoot outs almost on a daily basis for weeks at a time in Vancouver and theVancouver area, in Vancouver proper itself because there seems to be one activity. The police focus more on violent people and hard drugs. They don’t have to worry about can-nabis, right? So it’s a job shift there.”
DB “Toronto and Alliston are going to get five Insites where you can consume hard drugs without picking up diseases and passing them around. The Insites have nurses there and it has the drug to save overdose patients. I believe they saved 500 lives 600 lives now. You know people who’ve taken the wrong drug and so it’s done a spectacular thing. It’s kept these people alive ‘til they can use a preventative drug called cannabis which they get at dispensaries in Vancouver. Right now because of the Fentanyl overdoses. I think Surrey had forty in one weekend and there is a drug they whack them with right away that like neutralizes it, Naloxone.”
DB “The Allard decision so, as you know, so tie that in with what the Judge said, that the dispensaries provide a valu-able service to the community. And it’s so unequal across the country just like the unequal States of America. Buy a pound of weed in Washington State and then go to another state and get two years in prison. So there is a point to this story, and that would be that. Insite announced they have seen the usage of hard drug use down considerably. And they attrib-uted that to accessibility to medical cannabis dispensaries as an exit. So when they say these people who are supporting of these laws that state you become a murderer or rapist and move on to harder drugs, go insane and a gateway drug-those are all lies and you remember in the Nixon era they lied about the criminality of all this kind of stuff.”
DB “But you have to understand then is, my stand here is, that was a criminal thing and they caused thousands of people to die okay? There are veterans who came back from Vietnam and this is well documented, who had missing body parts and were growing weed in the back country and they would come in with Blackhawk helicopters and the guy would be sitting there with his rifle and they would sniper him and kill him and this is documented.”
DB “So enforcing laws based on lies is what makes the pot laws fall. You can not enforce laws based on lies. The law is the law. But you can not enforce the law based on misconcep-tions, threats and lies. Okay? So now we call that. You know that we have 1,300 soldiers living on the street right now?
So and now we’ve sent more of our soldiers over seas and we have three different war zones right now and
WE’RE a threat to the country? That smells. There’s something wrong with this picture here, okay? The
whole thing is job shifting and where are their pri-orities? You can see there is still a war on drugs. We are still fighting it. We just filed a Charter Appeal.”
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"Weeds might be my favourite because the only reason there are dispensaries in this town and the only reason marijuana is even being considered for legalization is
because of long-time activists like Don Briere."
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