Blair Timmothy Longley (born September 25, 1950) is a Canadian politician and activist who has served as the leader of the Marijuana Party since 2004.
He ran for the Green Party in the 1984 election in the riding of Burnaby placing a distant fourth of four candidates with 364 of 58,991 votes.
[citation needed] In 1988, he ran against opposition leader John Turner, with no party affiliation, and placed ninth of twelve candidates with 52 of 54,654 votes.
[5] As of 2018[update] Longley was the Marijuana Party's chief agent and leader, and so was ineligible to run in federal elections.
Since legalization, Longley shifted the Marijuana Party's message towards scrutinizing the "rapid capitalization" of the drug.