Bloc Pot leader goes Green

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by Craig Segal

Fed up with lacklustre election results, the head of the provincial marijuana party is jumping ship to the Green Party.

"It was in my mind for a couple of months, especially after the Mercier by-election," says former Bloc Pothead Pierre Audet. "I found the Bloc Pot was a good experience, but if you want to change things, you've got to go further. The Green Party better represents the masses. They are already recognized internationally.

"The Bloc Pot is a strange political party because they go to any kind of demonstration. I told them we don't have to stand up against the authorities. I told them Bloc Pot leader goes Green

if we do a good job, we will become the authority," says Audet.

Serge Granger, former political advisor to the Bloc, says he also quit after he failed to make a coalition with the Green Party. "I found out the Bloc Pot is not interested in growing as a political party and I'm a little disappointed with that." Granger would not confirm whether he would join the Greens.

From their Montreal headquarters, the Bloc Pot say they had a difference of opinion. "There was some disagreement about how to run the party," says Marc-André Roy. "Audet wants us to get elected, but we don't want to be the boss. We want to fight."

Roy says the Bloc Pot is trying to reorganize so that the party will have no leader and all decisions will be made by consensus.