Hugô St-Onge

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

Hugô St-Onge is a politician in Quebec, Canada. Since 2002, he has been the leader of the Bloc pot. The Bloc pot is a Quebec political party dedicated to the end of marijuana prohibition.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/30/1070127272509.html|title=High times at new Montreal marijuana cafe|date=1 December 2003|work=Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=AP|access-date=30 August 2010}}[https://archive.today/20130115151017/http://monvote.qc.ca/mobile/fr/partis-et-candidats/partis-politiques.asp?parti=00059][https://archive.today/20130115155816/http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/christiane_charette/2010-2011/chronique.asp?idChronique=33999]

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Hugô St-Onge

| image =

| caption =

| office = Leader of the Bloc pot

| president =

| term_start = 2002

| term_end =

| predecessor = Alexandre Néron

| office1 = Interim Leader of the Nova Scotia Marijuana Party of Canada (unregistered)

| order1 =

| president1 =

| term_start1 = Early may, 2000

| term_end1 = Late may, 2000

| predecessor1 = Party founded*

| successor1 = Unknown

| birth_name =

| birth_date =

| birth_place =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| education =

| allegiance =

| branch =

| rank =

}}

He founded in 1999 along with other Bloc pot activists the Club compassion of Montreal a collective project to distribute cannabis for medicinal uses.{{Cite web |url=http://www.clubcompassion.org/accueil_ccm.htm/ |title=Le Centre Compassion de Montréal |access-date=2012-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819133938/http://www.clubcompassion.org/accueil_ccm.htm |archive-date=2012-08-19 |url-status=dead }}

In May 2000 he collaborated in the creation a new political party in Nova Scotia called The Marijuana Party of Canada.{{Cite web |url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/47/47065.htm |title=Radio-Canada.ca - Nouvelles: "Le Parti Marijuana est né" |access-date=2012-09-01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115232711/http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/47/47065.htm |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead }}

Electoral record

References