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From: Dana Beal dana@...

Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 19:08:01 -0700

Subject: [mayday] MMM 2002 'round the World, 3nd Edition; Sign up now for
May 3 2003 Global March for Cannabis Liberation!, what are you waiting
for?!?

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******!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!******

From: Blair Anderson <blair@...>
Reply-To: blair@...
Organization: Techno Junk and Grey Matter  & Mild Green Initiative
mildgreens.com
Subject: [Auckland]  J-day


Kia Ora
J-Day Auckland

Auckland had a dry day if not a little gusty making joint rolling
difficult for the punters I saw making up mini tents with their jackets.
Approximately 2000 supporters arrived throughout the day. The beginning
was a little scary when we had no sound due to a blown fuse. Fortunately
we had a few drummers to make some comfort noise and a true Wildman whip
cracker, cracking three bull whips at the crowd.

Nandor dropped a great speech on the people calling again for those facing
possession charges to clog the system. Mike Harding let out his mighty
roar telling his tale of bust and woe. Mike Finlayson put into laymen's
terms why we should clog the system , highlighting the fact that it is
racist ( "if your polynesian or maori your fucked") and biased and calling
on all those available to give court support for roaring lions.

Switched On Gardener showed awesome support by hosting the Growers Ironman
and the 4.20 Rolling competition which was judged by Nick from SOG, Vic
from the Hempstore and Nandor Tanczos MP. Much to their disappointment
both Nandor and Victoria were unable to enter due to their status as
judges. The Hempstore provided a raffle with three prizes, the first being
a 50cm Peace Pipe, second a 2-way "vase" and the final prize was a large
wooden grinder. Alannagh from the Hempstore drew this prize with
trustworthy Nandor. The Peace pipe winner was over the moon. More
information on these events are on the NORML website under J-day Reports.

With a fantastic lineup of true reggae/dub DJ's , live bands
and funk, the music expressed the true peace loving mood of
the day.  All reports came back good and of course EVERYONE
WAS SMILING.

See ya

Victoria

National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NZ
Inc.
http://www.norml.org.nz       norml@...
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Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 02:56:12 +0900
From: Takao Bakuya <bakuya@...>
Reply-To: bakuya@...
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To: Cannabis Freedom Coalition <cannabisfreedom@...>,
          Dana Beal <dana@...>
Subject: MMM 2002 in Tokyo report
Status:

Hi,

MMM 2002 in Tokyo was held in Inokashira Koen (near Kichijoji) on May 6
(Monday: national holiday) from 1:00 to 5:00PM. This was the 2nd MMM held
in Tokyo and about 800 people participated (up from last year's 300).
There were belly dancing, street performance, free speech, costume contest
and music. The high point was when the raggae musicians played their
original ganjah song. It was a peaceful tune and many sang along with
joy.Many enjoyed free servings of hemp seed noodle and rice gruel. People
stood in fron of the display panels describing the truth about cannabis
and read them enthusiastically including the local pedestrians who just
happened to come by. There was also a booth showing the testimonies from
cannabis arrestees.

It was a successful event and participants felt that cannabis reform
movement is surely progressing here in Japan.

--
Takao Bakuya, a Cannabist
http://www.cannabist.org/
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From: "wachtel boaz" <wachtel@...>
Subject: Report from Tel Aviv - The Green Leaf Party


Dear Friends

The Green Leaf Party held yesterday its 3rd annual picnic for the
liberation of Cannabis, for human rights and peace. Atleast 4000
people attended the largest party organized by the Green Leaf Party
in Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv. Music, joy and happiness were all present
at time in Israeli history that is depressing and joyless . The
police came and left and we thank them for that. We called for the
first time publicly to end occupation now, to stop Palestinian terror
and called for the establishment of a Palestinian state next to
Israel to live in peace with each other.
We thank our brothers and sisters around the world for the
inspiration and the peaceful leadership of cures not wars and
especially to Dana Beal (who forgot to send posters this year, but we
love him nevertheless).
Mucho love to all
Boaz Wachtel
Founder and chairman


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From: Petros Evdokas <petros_evdokas@...>
Subject: Eastern Mediterranean

Hello Dana and Friends,

Thought you may want to see this:
Eastern Mediterranean imc (indymedia):
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-eastern-mediterranean/20
02-May/000144.html

Petros

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From: risto mikkonen <risto.mikkonen@...>
Subject: Helsinki & Turku /Finland

In Helsinki there were about 700-800 people in the demonstration. After
the march there were several speeches by representatives of political
parties from left to right. The weather was nice, people in good mood
and so the event went on peacefully.

In Turku there were 300 people in the hemp demonstration and 10 people
in the anti-hemp demonstration (ultra christians with a black cross).
This anti-hemp demo had caused heavy police participation and at least 2
central criminal policemen were filming the hemp demo on video but not
the opposition! More people come to the park were there was a good
afternoon picnic with music, foot bagging and minimum official program.

Videos and photos later http://www.vihreetpantterit.org

Yours
Risto
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From: "Enrico Fletzer" <enricofletzer@...>
Subject: mmm in rome italy
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 17:56:04 +0200

the million marijuana march in rome was attended by 10-15000 people
gathering at piazza esedra near the central station termini reaching
the roman Circo Massimo near the Colosseum.
a small group of the radical party was isolated within the meeting
point by the majority of the demonstrators because of the involvement
of the party in many wars and conflicts (israel, southafrica,
yugoslavia, afghanistan and so on).
the organisers are planning for the next to call upon the european
social forum for a bigger partecipation also directed versus wars,
racism and liberism.
more at radiogap.net and radiokcentrale.it
enrico fletzer of radio k centrale bologna

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From: "forml420" <nancy.plymale@...>
Subject: MMM-Tampa
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:46:07 -0400
Organization: FORML
:

High,
The Million Marijuana March was held in Tampa on Saturday under a
beautiful ,but swelting Florida sun. As the tempature swell into the 90's
over 100 marijuana advocates gathered in the park directly in front of
Tampa Police Department,to lead a protest march to the federal courthouse
,calling for and end to the drug war and the legalization
marijuana.Marijuana was not openly smoked but the scent waiffed thru the
air anyways. Advocates had warned the crowd that TPD had undecover
officers present so covert measures were taken to prevent large scale
arrests or distruptions of the event. The crowd marched peacefully thru
the streets of down town Tampa,chanting slogans such as " NO MORE
LIES,LEGALIZE." and " DEA go AWAY, Kill some KIDS, some other Day ".On the
the steps of the Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse, Advocates from Cures-not
Wars, NORML,FORML,CAN ,and others gave thrilling speechs and urged the
crowd to action.Medical Marijuana petitions,Caanabis Culture Stickers and
other literature was circulated to the enthusiatic crowd. There were no
arrests,and the march ended peacfully . Many thanks to Cannabis Culture
for their donation and support . Thanks Guys. Sincerly,
Michael Palmieri,producerWEED-TV
P.O.Box 2061 - Zephyrhills,Fl.33539
(813)779-2551 <mailto:weedtv@...>weedtv@...
"Helping End Marijuana Prohibition"

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From: "Bud Spliff" <normalpotluck2002@...>
Subject: normal mmm report
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 16:45:09 -0500



Hey Dana,
     This is Zach in Normal, IL.  We held our march on friday may 3rd,
because we figured that we could draw many of the students who hadn't
heard about the event when they were en route to class.  The event
exceded our expectations.  Over the course of the day, something near
to 1,000 people showed up (we were giving away free posters- we
stated with over 1,000 and finished with 10).  At any given time of
the day, there were about 200 people.  Our march took us through
downtown Normal, a conservative central Illinois town and the home of
Illinois State University; made a pit stop outside the city
hall/police station: and then returned to the quad via the same
route.  The whole time on the march, we were being cheered on by
local business owners and the inconvenienced traffic.  All in all the
day was more successful than we could have hoped.
      When all was said and done, we were able to set up a new
registered student organization on the ISU campus called Mobilizing
Activists and Students for Hemp, or MASH for short.  We increased our
membership to over 100 students and raised nearly $1000 for future
efforts.  The day was so inspiring for all of us that we are already
hatching a plan to hold a drug policy/debate/festival in October.
      One more thing.  If you would like to see pictures of our event,
visit www.mashaction.org.  And if you wouldn't mind, please update
our contact info to the following:

Zach and Miriam
mash@...
(309)275-6110
(309)275-6112
      Thank you very much, and go ahead and add Normal, IL to the 2003
march and poster.
                  wishing peace, love, and more protesters next year,
                        -zach
__________________

From: Paul Tripp <paultrip@...>
Subject: 2002 MMM
Status:

Dana,
	 Things went better this year than last year. We got 30 people out there
this time, holding up signs and passing out flyers, and got plenty of
support (shouting/honking from cars passing by). We're willing to do it
again next year, so sign us up.
	 Also, one suggestion for the flyers next year, you might want to have an
area on the back of the flyer where the local organizations can get the
time/location of their local march printed directly on the flyer. Makes it
a little easier to advertise.
				 Paul Tripp
				 Omaha NORML
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From: "T ha" <marijuanamarch4@...>
Subject: austin


Austin, Texas May 4, 2002   The weather was beautiful for the
Liberation Day Million Marijuana March in Austin TX.  About 1000
people from around the state carried two ten foot long paper mache
marijuana cigarette replicas to the Capitol with the message that
Texans are ready for a more compassionate, effective and reasonable
marijuana policy.

We gathered in Republic Park from HIGH noon till 1PM, where folks
gathered in a huge circle, listening to each other tell stories their
own experiences with prohibition.  After 1 PM, we marched to the
County Court House and jail, to take the message to incarcerated
marijuana offenders that "you are not alone, justice will be done".
Later at the Capitol, one of our speakers pointed out that the chant
needs to be changed to   "WE are not alone, Justice will be done"
because a lot of us who are not in jail also suffer from the
injustices of prohibitive marijuana laws.

Once we arrived at the Capitol building, we enjoyed a great line up
of Texas drug policy activists and entertainers.   A table was set up
with pens, paper and envelopes to help people write letters to their
legislators regarding marijuana policies.  We got about one hundred
letters.

Happily, for the third year in a row, our event was arrest free.

Thank you Cures-Not-Wars for helping make the Million Marijuana March
a reality for us all. With out your ceasless dedicaiton, it never
would have happened.

some pictures are available at
<http://www.dog8mybab.com>www.dog8mybab.com  you should click to top
link to the left

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From: "Mary Mackenzie" <mmackenzie@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Addendum to the MMMarch, Tucson, AZ
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:50:25 -0700
X-Priority: 3
Status:


After consulting with other marchers, it has been determined that we
had over 200 people.  Next year our goal is at least 500.
Laura was our lead electric chair's name.  Eleven hours is about 6
too many so next year we will keep the Rally tighter
HEMP HEMP HOORAY

Mary Mackenzie, BFA
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From: "Angel of Good Hope" <sisterearth420@...>
Subject: Re: First Reports: Million Marijuana March 2002 Around the
World; Please send a
   Report on Yr MMM 2002 Event....


Missoula, Montana

The unofficial count is just over 420 marchers.  No arrests!  Our
march was made very special by the participation of Robin Prosser.
Robin has been on hunger strike since 4-20.  She has an
immunosuppressive disease similar to lupus.  Cannabis is the only
medicine to alleviate her pain and allow her quality of life.  We
borrowed an adult sized trike with a seat for a rider, got her an
umbrella and some blankets.  Her positivity and strength considering
her physical state are an inspiration.  There will be an article in
the Missoula Independant on Thursday.  I will forward it on to you.
<http://64.4.16.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=685f5cbd8057231b003ccd
21d3f314ca&lat=1020725176&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2emissoulanews%
2ecom>www.missoulanews.com

The march started near the University of Montana at 4:20.  I arrived
at 3:40 and started greeting folks with a huge grin.  I was so happy.
I handed out a little something I had written in a humble attempt to
set the tone for the march and keep others out of jail.  There are
enough casualities of this silly but serious war.


The following I handed out before the March.  Printed on hemp paper.. .

Greetings Sisters and Brothers!  Thank you for coming.

Most of us here know the benefits of cannabis through personal
edification or first hand experience.  It seems most of America
doesn't, or we wouldn't need to be here today.

Be it medicinal or as an alternative to wood or fossil fuel, this
herb needs to be shone in a different light.  Or better stated, this
herb needs to be allowed to shine in its true light.

Today, each of us is here to represent what that light can bring out
in an individual.  As a group, our actions today will symbolize a
society where cannabis is tolerated.  In order to achieve the goal of
educating and enlightening our fellow citizens who do not understand,
are afraid, or are conditioned by current mainstream thinking, we
need to maintain a respectful, mature, reasonable group character.
Today is not a day for protest.  Today is not a day for violence.
Today is a day for respect and patience.  Respect for ourselves and
each other, respect and admiration for warriors like Robin Prosser,
and patience for those who are still unaware of what they are not
experiencing.  We are the ones with the wisdom of this awesome plant
to share.  Let us do so with grace.



MTNorml was there.  The college radio station was there.  Reporters
from the Independant were there (interviewing Robin).



More and more people kept coming.  A kind volunteer put-out for
poster board and markers.  People made their own signs on a picnic
table in the park.  A band of rhythm (drums, etc.), The Gringo
Allstars, led the March.  Once Robin was in her chariot, the band
took their que and started through the gathered marchers.



We marched along the river, waving at cops who were parked on the
other side.  That was the only police presence I noticed.  People
shouted and cheered, danced and chanted. Fair amount of families with
children came.  We marched to the next bridge over the Clark Fork
River and took the long way up to cross.  I had to stand at the
bottleneck of the bridge and  keep people from swamping the road.
There was room on the sidewalk and bike lane for about 6 abreast to
stride.  Down the stairs into Caras Park- this is where I thought the
march could end.  After seeing to Robin's safe keeping (as her
chariot couldn't traverse the stairs), I raced down to the park to
join in the March to the County Courthouse.  This was soooo good.
The march had a life of its own.



The Gringo Allstars kept a beat while people filtered from the
streets.  Barry, a member of the Rainbow Family spoke poignantly of
our brothers and sisters incarcerated.  A friend of mine gave strong
words about not tolerating being considered second class citizens,
and about people who are ill not having medicine available.  I
thanked everyone, let them know they were beautiful and they made
this possible.  I pointed out Robin and we gave her a loud round of
applause.  I offered the floor and one other gentleman spoke.  I
invited all to a social after the March at the Underground Lounge.
Then we all cheered and felt good.  After Robin was safe in her
daughter's care and shaking many hands, I headed to the social.



There, I spread out the 400+  oatmeal raisin hempseed cookies (some
vegan) and hempseed, peanut butter, honey spread I had prepared in
the late hours the night before.  We had a table of literature.
Venders with glass and pouches were present.  KGBA (college radio)
  interviewed me, my friend who had spoken, head of MTNorml, and head
of GrizzlyNorml (Campus NOrml).  Then I walked back to my car at the
start of the march with John Masterson, head of MTNorml.  I think I
will be working on a resolution to make personal use lowest priority
on the polices' agenda.  This is only a stepping stone to what we
hope will be growing one's own medical marijuana, hemp fields across
eastern Montana, and no more cannabis arrests.



Thank you for making this possible!



love, light, and peace,

Angela Goodhope

Missoula Coordinator
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From: "Byron S." <neuromancer420@...>
Subject: Re: MMM 2002 'round the World, 2nd Edition; Sign up now for
May 3 2003 Global March for Cannabis Liberation!, what are you
waiting for?!?
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Status:


--- Dana Beal <dana@...> wrote:
>  ******!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day:

We smoked out with Granny Grass at the 2002 Marihuana
March in Chico CA.

The Chico March was a smokiní success!  We estimated
around 420 marchers filled the streets of Downtown
Chico with the sweet smell of cannabis and the sweet
sounds of unity.  The march started at the Free Speech
Area at Chico State University around 2:30.  At the
same time the Days Of Chico was taking place in the
same area.  The local 215-support group B.A.M.M.
(Butte Alliance for Medical Marihuana) stuck out like
a green thumb amongst the vendors and craft tents of
the event.  There was no hostility towards us from the
non-smokers.  In fact, we were the most popular table
there.  People who probably never intended to join us
did so when they saw the 5 inch # 45 sativa/indicia
plant sitting with our literature.
We assembled, lit up, and started the march that took
us around downtown Chico with the sounds of honking
and cheering from passersby.  Even the Chico Fire
Dept. honked their loud horn in support.
Adrian A. wheeled activist Granny Grass who held my
pro 215 sign as we marched around the city streets.
We smoked, laughed and cheered as we made our way to
the giant hands statue where the main members of BAMM
(including myself) spoke out and rallied the people
into a screaming frenzy of chants and cheers of
support.
The only police that we saw was attending to a drunk
driver that hit another car along the marcherís route.
   We started chanting, ìdonít drink and driveî as we
passed by the poor bastard who was getting the field
sobriety test.  The cops just watched us pass with
quiet amusement.  It wrapped up with a countdown to
4:20 when the remaining stragglers gathered in a
circle and smoked in a peaceful ceremony then
disbanded.
The media was out there.  Local CBS affiliate
interviewed a few of us, and most of the local papers
were there as well.  Overall it was a raving success.


Thank you for supporting this cause and donating the
posters and needed material for the march.  With all
of the support and good work we do locally and
nationallyówe will win this war with a peaceful
conclusion.
Sincerely,
Byron S.
BAMM member & activist.

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Subject: 400 yr old religion cures the war
From: Andrew Archuleta <ajarchuleta@...>


Hi Dana:

Fact is stranger than fiction in some cases, and I think you'll agree
this is one of those cases...

To use their laws all we need is a religion that had as part of it the
smoking of marijuana that was an "Aboriginal Spiritual Practice or
Ceremony." I've heard there are others that have tried this approach, but
they didn't have all the bases covered. However, there is indeed ONE
religion that originated in the heartland of America and had as part of
the religion the smoking of the Peace Pipe. It was the Prophecy of the
return of the White Buffalo Calf Woman. That the People were to smoke the
Pipe with all Tribes, in all Councils, until she returned in "the end of
days." One look around and we could surmise this would qualify as an "end
of days." If she is to return, and they are to smoke until she returns,
implies reincarnation. If she is a different color, so too can they be.
This religion covers every race, creed, nationality in the world. Now,
all we need is someone that can pull it off. And indeed, there is One, of
course there would be. And she doesn't bang a tambourine. Rather, she
gathers the evidence required to uphold "the law" and STILL make
marijuana legal for everyone to smoke.

In essence, if you want to cure the war of smoking marijuana, this is it.
There is one way, and this is it. I happen to have it from good sources,
this will work. Contact me. Fax: 303-853-4667

And I wouldn't guarantee it except big brother tried to erase the
religion, destroy the Woman, and all that know about it have phones and
computers tapped.

R

IF YOU WANT YR CONTACT ON THE NEW IBOGAINE POSTER, SET UP AN IBOGAINE
DROP-IN CENTER TODAY!
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Boone

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Burlington: Denny Lane / Brendan Kinney, Vermont Libertarian
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496-2387 http://vtnorml.org/MMM 802-496-2387 POB 537, Waitesfield, Vt
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<mhogg@... (802) 865-9410.

Charlotte

Chico: 530-345-1997 <chicodank@...> or
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(530)898-2150 or voicemail pgr 530-571-2071

Christchurch: Blair Anderson <blair@...> Mild Green
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Colorado Springs: Bob Melamede <rmelamed@...>

Columbus: Kenneth Schweickart 614-265-VOTE <dpeo@...>
http://www.ohiohemp.org 319 E. Hudson St. Columbus, Ohio 43202

Daingerfield

Des Moines: iowanorml@... (515) 288-5798
iowanorml.home.mchsi.com/ http://www.commonlink.com/~olsen/ ,
mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/ ,  http://iowanorml.org/
http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/index.html ; or Terry Mitchell
(515) 789-4442; 608 Dallas St., Dexter, Iowa 50070.

Detroit: George George S. <gtomfields@...> 313-533-6108 or
"Professor Hemp" <newagecitizen@...> 313-563-3192 or "jude
joseph" acididea@... 313 438 1668
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/detroit.htm

Durban: <ezpz.co.za> or <ezpz@...> +27 31 2016 359
PHONE AND FAX. http://www.ezpz.co.za Post net Suite 136, Private
Bag X 04, DALBRIDGE, 4014, SOUTH AFRICA Justin Ballot, 134 Clark
Road, Durban 4001, South Africa

Eugene: Kris Millegan <Hempsters@...> 800-556-2012
http://www.ctrl.org/mmm

Flensburg: Peter Bluhm <peter-bluhm@...> phone: Irene:
04632-871771 Peter: 0461-13620

Flint: Rev. A.S."Happy" Wright <happy_hempster@...> 989
872 8005 http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/flint.htm

Ft Wayne

Ft. Worth

Garberville : 707 923 4488 "Paul Encimer" <encimer@...>
Box 162, Piercy CA 95587; or "jeri" <jeri@...>

Halifax: 902 865-8606 Michael Patriquin <mpat@...>
HempWorks, 93 Orchard Dr, Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia B4E 3B3

Hearst

Helsinki : Finnish Cannabis Association http://www.sky.org
sky@...

Hilo: Roger Christie <pakaloha@...> (808) 961-0488
http://www.thc-ministry.org

Houston: Dean Farrell <fdb@...> (281)752-9198.
http://www.cultural-baggage.com c/o Dean Becker, 11215 Oak
Spring, Houston, TX 77043

Indianapolis: Neal Smith, <inorml@...>, 317-335-6023
Voice Mail, 3601 N. Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, IN 46205
http://www.inorml.org

Kansas City: <mohemp@...> David 816-678-7447, 'its a
beautiful day' 3918 broadway, kansas city mo. 64111... 816 931
6169.

Knoxville

Lansing: Kathy Kennedy 517-628-3915 or e-mail: "kathy kennedy"
<prohibitionx@...>
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/lansing.htm

London: International Cannabis Coalition (UK), PO Box 2243,
London, W1A 1YF, UK. Chris: 020 7637 7467. Fax: 0870 0548646. E
Mail: may2001@... http://www.schmoo.co.uk/may2001.htm

Los Angeles: Sister Somayah 323-232-0935
http://www.geocities.com/sistersomayah/events.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sister-somayah

Madison: Ben Masel <bmasel@...> weedstock.com

Mexico City: +5300 5774 "Tato"  foigras2002@...
"Camello"  cosmocamello@...  "Asoc. Mexicana de Estudios
Sobre el
Cannabis" <amecamexico@...> Leopoldo Rivera
Rivera/AsociaciÛn Mexicana de Estudios sobre el Cannabis,
Amapola # 35, col. Jardines del Molinito, Naucalpan, Estado de
MÈxico. CP. 53530 MŠXICO or Adolfo Prieto 1003, Col. del Valle,
C.P. 03100, Mexico, D.F. www.vivecondrogas.com, www.amecamexico.org,
www.hemp.com.mx

Miami: Glenn Allen, 42c s.e.12th st. Dania, Fl 33004,
954-929-7025 aka "Nelg Nella" <spacehippie@...>

Minneapolis: Grassroots Party or Chris Wright
<TCW@...> 612-522-5374.

Missoula: Angela Goodhope <sisterearth420@...> (406)
829-1703


Montpelier: Rama Schneider <2001@...> (802) 433-5441
address: 1614 Gilbert Road, Williamstown, VT 05679
http://www.ramabahama.net

Montreal: Marc-Boris St-Maurice <blocpot@...>
(514)528.1768

New Orleans : Crystal 504-897-9196 or Daisy 504-957-HERB hemp.rox.com
email:<NewOrleansMarch@...>

New Paltz: newpaltznorml@... NORML / SSDP PO Box 775, New
Paltz, NY 12561

New York City: Dana 212-677-7180 <dana@...>

Nimbin: Max Stone of the Australian Cannabis Law Reform
Movement" aclrm@... ph: 61 0266 891842
http://www.nimbinaustralia.com
<http://www.bigbongburgerbar.com/webshow/>Big Bong Mobile


Nuernberg: Emanuel Kotzian ("Green Party") <emanuel@...>
phone: 0049-911-535433

Oberlin: Patty Hallman <sbysc@...> (440)774-4544) c/o
Stitch by Stitch & Curiousities, 31 South Main Street, Oberlin,
OH 44074

Oslo: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Torkel Bj¯rnson, NORMAL,
Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0158 Oslo, Norway

Paducah: Paula (270)362-9849 <pioneer@...>, Cher
Ford-McCullough <bitchcrafts@...> 65 Cabin Lane,
Gilbertsvile, Ky. 42044 or Brian McCullough
<bud_jamesbud@...> (270) 362-8186

Paris: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79 or "Dalila AKROUR" <dalilaa@...>
5, rue de Tombouctou 75018 PARIS

Pilsner: http://www.exist.cz, e-mail exist@...

Portland: (503) 239-6110 MMM 2002 Committee c/o Oregon NORML
(OrNORML) http://www.ornorml.org PO Box 86443, Portland, OR
97286 Madeline Martinez yerbanena@... or Steven M.
Cooper Volunteer Coordinator ornorml.volunteer@...

Prague: Michael "xChaos" Polak <xchaos@...> Tel: +420 603
872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104
http://www.legalizace.cz

Providence: <psilocyberspore@...> (401) 737-7057

Raleigh-Durham: Bryan T. Moore <btm42@...> 614 Carolina
Ave. Raleigh, NC 27606-1606 (919) 816-0609 or "Jeff Badalucco"
<nc_ca@...> (919)834-2816 238 Pecan St., Raleigh, NC
27603

Reno: Michelle 775-287-1594 or Sharon Noble 775-971-9237. 11540
Rocky Mt. St., Reno, NV 89505.  Virginia Lake at noontime on May 4, 2002

Rio de Janeiro: +55 - 21 - 9885 9162 mmmbr2002@...

Rome: "Segreteria Forte Prenestino"
<segreteria@...> or Michela Gesualdo
<mgesuald@ilmanifesto>

Santa Clara

Seminole

Sioux City

St. Louis: 314-962-0690 or St. Louis Area NORML , PO Box 220243,
St. Louis, MO 63122, Phone: 314-995-1395 Email:
<StL_norml@...> http://www.mo-norml.org

Stuart

Tampa: Anthony154154@... Anthony Lorenzo 1-888-210-0425 toll free
pager

Tel Aviv: Boaz Wachtel -- wachtel@... Tel:972-54-573679
http://www.ale-yarok.org.il PO Box 2983, Even Yehuda, 40500
Israel

Tokyo: Takao Bakuya (Cannabist) info@...
+81-3-3706-6885 http://www.cannabist.org

Toronto: "Terry Parker Jr." terryparkerjr@... 2209-55
Triller Ave. Toronto, Ont. Canada, M6R-2H6 416-533-7756 or Derek
Wellwood http://www.CanadaMMM.com or Larry Duprey (416)540-7829
fax(416)242-2635 <larryduprey@...> or
<info@...> Toronto Area Association / Marijuana
Party of Canada, 132 Dundas St. East, Toronto,On M5B 1E2
(416)367-3459

Traverse City: Melody Karr <fiddlefoot420@...>
(231)885-2993 PO Box 524 Mesick, MI 49668. or 10954 Birch Road
Mesick MI 49668.
http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/traversecity.htm

Trondheim: <mmm@...> normal.no/mmm Line Arstad, NORMAL,
Hjelmsgt 3, N0-0355 Oslo, Norway

Tucson: "mary mackenzie (formerly crow)"
<mmackenzie@...> (520)323-2947
http://www.hempmarch.2ya.com or 3400 east speedway, #118,
tucson, arizona 85716

Turku: Vihreet Pantterit http://www.vihreetpantterit.org
info@...

Ukiah: Verge Belanger "v belanger" <contactverge@...>
Tommy Gunn, 528 North State St. #1, Ukiah, Ca. 95482

Vancouver: David Malmo-Levine, <dagreenmachine@...> BC
Marijuana Party Bookstore and Internet Broadcasting Center, 307
West Hastings Tel. 604 682-1172 http://www.cannabisculture.com

Washington, D.C.:Toni Keane <taporter84@...>
http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html

Wellington Ben Knight <Legalise@...> NORML NZ , PO
Box 27-315, Wellington +64 25 377509 http://www.norml.org.nz

Winnepeg: Chris Buors, <chris_buors@...> mail to 430
Winterton ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R2K 1K4

We have a prototype, "Smoke and Expand," but we are still taking
submissions for our final design--and we are establishing a VIRTUAL
POSTER GALLERY to give every city who can print locally a choice.
- ----


From: Michael Polak <xchaos@...>
Organization: Arachne Labs
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
X-Accept-Language: en-us, cs
To:  dana@...
Subject: MMM 2003: Prague, Brno, Pilsen
Status:

Please list cities of Prague, Brno and Pilsen for MMM 2003 (May 3)

This year, we were critisized for not managing to get all the permits
for the event, so larger team of organizers will start aranging
everything for MMM 2003 happening tomorrow - so we have one year to
find suitable place with all permissions, etc. It would be useful to
make
lists of cities, where MMM participans are prosecuted, like in N.Y.C
or Rio de Janeiro, so speakers and organizers in other countries can
express solidarity publicly...

--
Michael "xChaos" Polak
+420 603 872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104
http://www.arachne.cz (Arachne Labs homepage)
http://www.mp3records.cz (100% legal and free music)
http://www.legalizace.cz (Stop drug war & release victims !)
http://www.vojna.cz (Petice za zruseni vojny i civilni sluzby)

_______

From: "Suzana Sousa" <sousasuzana@...>
Subject: About the march in RIO...
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 18:43:32 +0000

Hi Dana,

The march in Rio has been very controversial, as you should have
know by now. From ugly to hylarious, the scenery is much calmer now.
Fortunately, some politicians (PT) solved out the confusion with the
police. They said they were misunderstood by the journalists...
As soon as possible I´ll send you detailed info about the march and
the great photos we have.
By the way, add Rio to MMM2003 list!
Regards,
SuZana


_____________________________________________________________
If you want to moved above this line and listed for next year, just
let us know.

***!!!MMM2002 Cities Not Yet Confirmed for Global Cannabis March
2003!!!***

Abbotsford: 604-607-1111 Tim Felger. Meet at 1 pm at Centennial
park, march to courthouse at 2 pm

Anchorage: Scot Dunnachie 907-278-4367 <freehempinak@...>
2603 Spenard Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503 http://www.freehempinak.org

Ashland: "Amber Leiter" <amleiter@...>
419-289-8810 , Amber Leiter, 165 Ronald Ave. Apt. I, Ashland,
Ohio 419-207-8834

Auckland: Chris Fowlie norml@... ph 09 302-5255

Augusta: Roger Leisner/Radio Free Maine.
<rleisner04330@...> http://www.radiofreemaine.com

Berne: Swiss Hanf Koordination Sekretariat + 41-31-398-144
<infor@...> Roman will know which Swiss cities
are marching.

Birmingham: Grow More Weed Campaign, PO Box 9121, Birmingham
B138AU. 01212561303. (Mark Badger) Fax: 0121 256 1302. email:
growmoreweed@...

Bologna: mar. million march / association livello 57 ++39
051-271066<m4s@...> Via Muggia #9, 40100 Bologna
http://www.radiocentrale.it or http://www.radiogap.net

Boston: Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition\NORML P.O. Box
0266, Georgetown, MA 01833-0366 781-944-2266 -
http://www.masscann.org - 781-779-1334 fax

Boulder: Fred Smith 303-449-2390 <smithmf@...>
850 17th St., Boulder, CO 80302  ralph@... 303-546-6125

Braunschweig: <cannabislegal@...> This is an info stall in
Braunschweig distributing leaflets and other information
material from a stall in a shopping area.

Bremen: Silke Tel. 0179/180 25 25 Lieder@... Olaf 0162/77 34
576 Party-Project: 33 99 334 party@... Main event:
Sat, 4-May-2002, 12:00h at the Bahnhofsplatz, speeches at 13:00h
at Goetheplatz + info stalls

Brussels: Ottavio Marzocchi <omarzocchi@...>
+32-2-284-5496 www.radicalparty.org

Bucharest:  ClauditZa  clauditza_f@...
www.iarba.verde.de.acasa.go.ro 004092195819  address: Spliff
Decision, viorele street, nr 34  Bucharest, Romania or Poke
www.marihuana.ro 004091343202 address: piata romana, Bucharest,
Romania  Details: forum concert Mamaia Beach from morning with super
music and the best stuff around; La Mania Disco 10pm

Buenos Aires: daihatsu missminipimer@... www.mefis.to   or miss
olga summers olgasummers@... www. ligalais.com
Nos juntaremos el 4 de mayo, 16 hs., a fumar uno en el planetario buenos
aires.

Calgary: Ken Kirk e-mail: marijuanaparty.ofalberta@...
780-430-8440

Capetown: "greggoodwin" <greggoodwin@...>

Carbondale: Liz Strebe 618-351-0397 202 E. College (Apt 1),
Carbondale, IL 62901

Charleston:  Amanda Kushner Amanda2bad@... 304-746-0777   969
Jarrell Dr., Charleston, wv 25312 Rally Concert

Chesapeake: Barbra 373-9027  bkquamen@... Chesapeake, Virginia

Chicago: Caren Thomas, WCHDB, 2501 N. Lincoln, PMB#157; Chicago,
IL 60614; 773-381-9330 - cell - 847-344-9394 email  or 773-363-2942
chicagomarch2002@... -or- windycityhemp420@...
website - I've bought "windycityhemp.org" & it should be up real
soon. http://www.windycityhemp.org

Cincinnati: Nathan Utter (513)556-6107 or 861-5722. 29 W.
Daniels #16, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215

Cleveland: John <OCannabisSociety@...> (216)521-9333
http://www.timesoft.com/ncnorml

Cologne: gow!Club CannaCom e.V. /redAktion: 0221 562-6347
"Vinnie" <info@...> http://www.grow.de

Concord: (603)682-9077 "The Cannabis Times"
<tct@...> or http://www.nhorml.org.org State
House at noon

Copenhagen: Ole <olelykke@...> +45321572115 or  Klaus Tuxen
hampenyt@...  http://www.hampepartiet.dk or Zid Dhartha
mr_azid@...  http://www.christiania.org/ (+0045) 32 95 65 07
org: Hampepartiet ( The party For HEMP)  http://www.hampepartiet.dk
address: F.H.B. hampens plads Christiania, 1407 Kbh. K. March at 2 pm
from Faelledparken Christiania into Copenhage for smoke-in in Nyhavn

Dallas: Fletch 214-566-2460 <phletch41@...> 6008 E.
Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Tx. 75206

Darwin: mick lambe pariahnt@... http://napnt.tripod.com Ganja
Day demo' at Darwin parliament house.

Dauphin: Shroom menace217@... Dauphin, Manitoba Smoke-in,
followed by walk to support legalization

Denver: Ken Gorman gov02@... 303-935-6534 or ralph@...
303-546-6125

Dover: "Richard J. Schimelfenig" <rschimelfenig@...>
or <dhempman@...> Delaware Cannabis Society c/o Richard J.
Schimelfenig, 3504 Winterhaven Drive, Newark, DE 19702, (302)
456-9402

Dublin: "Butler, Philip" <phillty2@...> +353 1 4163707 or
<jday@...> http://www.cannabisireland.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group//ie-cannabis/

Duesseldorf: Marlon Werkhausen <marlon@...>
http://www.gesellschaftsprobleme.de phone: 049-172-7591795.

Duisburg: Dirk &Co <cafe-zentral@...>

Dunedin: Duncan Eddy <duncaneddy@...> NORML NZ, phone:
027 4719 139

Eaton: Andy Fudge fudgeie@... 210 eaton lewisburg rd apt#61
Rally 12 noon -- lots of kick ass specialties

Edinburgh: "Linda Hendry"<linda@...> UK -
0131 667-6488

Edmonton, Alberta: Ken Kirk e-mail:
marijuanaparty.ofalberta@... 780-430-8440 or "Ross Z"
<ganja_23@...>

Ellwangen: Sven Semmler <sven@...>


Fairbanks, Alaska: Frank Turney 907-452-3777 or Chuck Rollins
Jr. <chuck@...>

Feldkirch: <kontakt@...> 3. Hempfest Organized by
Legalize! ÷sterreich and B¸rgerinitiative Cannabis (Citizens'
Initiative Cannabis) Start: 20:00h Location: Sonderbar
Admission: 8 Euro, 4 Euro for students Speeches, Information,
Music

Frankenthal: helmut holtzheimer <movemus@...>

Freiburg: <info@...>, http://www.drogenpolitik.org
Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V. Info stall from 11:00h-17:00h.
corner Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse - Schiffstrasse

Fresno: Glass Packers <glasspackers@...> Eric Burns

Ft. Lauderdale: Sean LaPierre 954-584-8979 4750 N.W. 10th Court (Apt.
314), Plantation, FL 33313 email: imagic music@...  Rally from 12
- 5:30pm for the Million Marijuana March in Stranahan Park, on the
S.E. corner of Broward Blvd. and Andrews Ave. Downtown Ft. Lauderdale!

Hamburg: Martina Katzsch <Hanf-tv@...> ++49 40 4394493
Kulturhaus Eppendorf, at 20:00 Politisches Beisammensammensein
Diskussionen - Musik

Hamilton: Contact aksh1@...

Homer, Alaska - contact Julie Cesarini, P.O. Box 812, Homer AK
99603, 907 235-6040.

Hull: Carl Wagner phone: +44 01482
494789 5 Victoria Square, Ella Street, Hull HU5 3AL, England

Huntsville: "Acorn" 256-489-2607 or <mikecrockett256@...>
1267-A jupiter court, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35808. The
festivities are set for 2 pm at big springs park here in
huntsville.- smoke time, of course, 4:20 pm.

Ithaca: Adam Hirsch <ah222@...>, 111 Dryden Rd(Apt 9C),
Ithaca, NY 14850. (607) 227-0302

Jacksonville: James Johnson  (904)245-2876  chefboyrdee69@...
659 Apeberry Lane, Jacksonville, Florida

Jefferson City: Al Minta (417)885-3993
http://www.cannabisrevival.com/ cannabisal@... address: 1653
N. Patterson (Apt A), Springfield, MO 65803 or Columbia
NORML/Jeremy & Amanda 573-815-9821

Jerusalem: Joseph (011 972) 55-344-859

Johannesburg: Gordon Maene <Gordon@...> work: (
011)805 6763 cell phone: 082 552 6393

Juneau: contact Brad Parfitt at latebrad@...

Kelowna, B.C.: Teresa Taylor, CCC <luna@...>
taylor1.virtualave.net (250) 442-2741 or (250) 442-5166 Fax
(250) 442-5167 or Amanda/hempshop (250)770-8171

Kent: 330-673-3060 Matthew S. Donowick 237 1/2 E. Summit st.,
Kent, OH 44242 <TennJedJr@...>

Kailua-Kona: Gretel Zapata of Free Mary Jane
<freemaryjanehawaii@...> Tel# 808.328.9251 voice#
808.331.5418 81-1085c Capt. Cook RD Capt. Cook HI 96726 or PO
box 746 Honaunau HI

Krakow: Marek Warmuz (+48)501-468-018 "quepassa"
<quepassa@...>

Ladysmith: Terry & Wendy, (250)-245-3595, <tandwp1@...>

Las Vegas: Ray Facundo <raybones80@...>, 1750 Santa
Margarita, Apt 122, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702)-222-3560

Leadville: Ken Cary (719-486-2215. 114 W 6th # 9, Leadville, CO
80461

Leipzig: C.U. Rolf http://www.feinkost13.org tel 03412131477 or
"veejaykay" <veejaykay@...> rolfdereinzigename@...,
lxc@... j-rg klepsch, simildenstr.12, 04277
Leipzig-germany

Lille: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Limburg: Batlle@... (Valentin Batlle) 11.05.2002, 08:00 AM to
04:00 PM Limburg City Europaplatz M.M.M-Event with Music (Söllner,
Joint Venture ...) Valentin Batlle, Hanf Aktivist

Little Rock: Jamie Collins <k_kar420@...> (501) 663-4216
1516 Fairpark Blvd., Little Rock, Ark. 72204

Liverpool: Will Graham <willg@...> tel (inc.
international code): 0044 151 727 1458

Ljubljana: borut.delfabbro@... #352; ou-Lj,
Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana or  Mojca Štraus  mojca@...
0038641786490  Vinski vrh5a, 3240 Šmarje pri jelšah, Ljubljana,
Slovenia www.konoplja.org  http://www.sou.uni-lj.si/
Rally Concert Ljubljana, Kongresni trg 11 am a manifestation of
freedom and tolerance. Starting at 3pm, sketches and speeches
finishing at 9 pm, continuing into the night at After Dark,
Metalkova, K4

Luxemburg (LU) <info@...>, Tel: 00352 26 53 08 95,
http://www.act4cannabis.lu/ They are planning a press conference
and handing out leaflets. Mailing address:LIFE, 53, Val des
Aulnes, L-3811 Schifflange

Lyon: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79   Location:   14h Croix Rousse Place

Manchester: Cannabis Coalition (Manchester), 57 Church Street,
Smithfield Buildings, Manchester, M4. Tel: 0161 834 1130. email:
Gingrach@...

Marburg: Gr¸ne Hilfe Hessen, c/o Jo, Tel/Fax: 06631/801512
Location: Cafe Am Gr¸n, Start: 19:30h Hempevent Liberation Day
with Word Music (live), speeches and hemp, cannabis, marijuana
infos Marburg (Germany)  04.05.2002, 07:30 PM Cafe am Grün
M.M.M-Event with Worldmusic (Embryo) Speakers - Jo Biermanski, Grüne
Hilfe Bundesvorstand - Sylvia Hesse, Grüne Hilfe Landesverband Hessen
- Donald Denzler, Rastafari - Anna Lührmann, Bundestagskandidatin
B90/Grüne  - Mark Seibert, Jugendpolitischer Sprecher PDS, Hessen

Marseilles: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Melbourne: Kevin Aplin FL CAN (321)-726-6656. Jodi James -
Coalition Advocating Medical Marijuana 321-253-3673. e will be
parading with floats and a police escort (free of charge) from
Fee Ave Park to City Hall in Old Downtown Melbourne on May 4th
march Assembles at 12:00 Noon. There will be a concert
afterwards at the Greenhouse Cafe and Hemp Museum on East New
Haven Ave.

Memphis: Lanie 731-855-7527

Milwaukee: "Dominic Salmaan" <cannabisliberation@...>
414-469-0899. 1525 E. Royall (Apt # 14), Milw., WI 563202.

Montpellier at Le Bikini Location: 16h Comedie Place
Moscow: http://www.cures.by.ru d-form@... mailing address
Russia, Moscow, ul.Grimau 16, ap.28

Munich: mmm-muenchen@...

Nantes: FARId GHEHIOUECHE <gfarid@...> Tel/fax : 01 44 93 93
57; Mobile: 06 14 81 56 79

Napa: Bruce Trask 707-253-9295 1020 Soscol Ferry Rd, Napa, CA
94558

Nashville: "Howie & Marivuana Leinoff" <torml@...>
(615)ACT-HIGH.

Newark: "Lori Simpson" <Kinkywink@...> 47 Mark ct., Bear, DE
19701 302-838-4375

New Haven: Lucas Davenport <hardreboot@...> 203-752-2462

Normal: Zach (309)451-1516 "Bud Spliff"
<normalpotluck2002@...>

Omaha: Paul Tripp, paultrip@..., (402)598-6180 12216
Poppleton Plz. #238, Omaha, NE, 68144

Ottawa: "deadmanseedco" <deadmanseedco@...> 613-749-3014
Don Appleby or Rick Reimer at 613-756-2961 or Rob Brown at
613-756-5892

Palm Springs: Lanny Swerdlow mappnow@... or
<marijuanamarch@...> pager: 760-836-8166; ph:
760-799-2055.

Paradise: Virgil Hales 530-877-5814

Patterson: David Germolus 209-892-6640  angelwater260@...  420
hoffman ct.,  Patterson, california   meet at the circle at 4:00;
start march at 4:20 Super phat smoke out as we march and rally
through the small town; Show the police we will not stand aroud like
pupets, we have rights. Major party after the march

Philadelphia: <phillyweed420@...>, "chuck palmer"
<chuckp@...> 610-279-6358, or "Dave Toaff"
<davetoaff@...>

Pordenone: Ivan Romano, Via Firenze 5, 33080 Porcia, PN, Italy
++39434591026 ++43428098

Rapid City: Bob Newland <newland@...> 877-687-5297,
605-255-4032 website: http://www.sodaknorml.org/  Arrive by 3:30 to hear
some "speechifyin' ". March will begin promptly at 4:20 p.m at 6th
and Columbus Streets and proceed north on 6th Street to Memorial Park
near the Civic Center for a concert jam.
concert/jam is planned at the park after the march.

Recklinghausen: Jossi <janjos@...>

Regina: Daniel Johnson <amduscias@...>
normlsask.cjb.net/

Rennes at l'Ubu. Jean Charles PETITJEAN, BARACANNA (COCAR), 105,
rue St HÈlier, 35000 Rennes. TÈl : 33 (0)2 23 35 15 69 Fax : 33
(0)2 23 35 01 33 E-Mail : baracanna@... SIRET : 432
785 822 00029 APE : 913 E ouvert mercredi de 14h30 ý 19h30
jeudi, vendredi et samedi de 10h ý 20h They will offer hemp
seeds to people at a rally in front of the mayor's house.

Richmond: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer@...> (804)
355-7612, or campus libs at <Huclberie1@....> March starts at
1:30 pm at Monroe Park, (bounded by Laurel, Franklin, Main, and
Belvedere. Following speeches, it proceeds down Franklin to the
Capitol for  more speeches.

Rio de Janeiro: +55 - 21 - 9885 9162 mmmbr2002@...

Rosario: +54 - 341 - 4642699 or +54 - 341 - 155093184 E-mail:
raddud@... Corrientes 1307, 2000 - Rosario-
ARGENTINA

Salt Lake City: Dr. Ken Larsen (801) <kencan@...> 856
E. 100th St. South (#2), Salt Lake City, UT 84102 or Andy
Morrill (801)334-8122 <rambis4@...> http://www.thc2002.org
http://www.personalchoice.org A. Reed Morrill, 1663 Historic
25th Street,Ogden, Utah 84401 In Salt Lake City, we will
assemble at South Temple and West Temple. At High Noon, we will
begin our march East to State Street and then North to the steps
of the Capital. That will take about 30 or 40 minutes. Then, we
will have music and speakers. Dennis Peron, author of
Proposition 215 in California, will be our featured speaker.

San Diego: San Diego A.C.T. (Association for Cannabis
Therapeutics) c/o T.Villodas,901"F"street#413,San Diego,
Ca.92101 email: Ed zepplin <edzepp@...> or Donna 619-302
3041 or 619-223-1050 (land line) 619-302-3041 (mobile)
http://www.cannabisfreedom.org

San Francisco: Hemp Evolution/Clark Sullivan "freeman sullivan"
<feemansulllivan@...> or c.libertine@... or LAMPS
415-487-0561

San Juan: Christian Fernandez <c_fernh@...> Box 839
Gurabo, PR 00778

San Luis Obispo: "Rusty Stuart" <nzane@...> 1722 Nacimiento
Lake Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446 805-237-7303 or 805-237-7306 And
Jo-D: 805.937.0034

San Marcos: Joe Ptak: 512.754.0264 Email:
earthfirstswt@... Postal: 213 Ramsay St.; #107, San
Marcos, TX; 78666

Santa Cruz: DdC <dendecannabist@...> or Jason Brodsky
<theherbalist@...> or Bryan Gilstein
<shelbyrose7@...> (831-502-3865) Bryan Gilstein, UCSC, 600
Kresge Ct, Santa Cruz CA 95064 discussion list:
SCMJMarch@...

Sao Paulo: Victor maolvni@... 30620225  rua tirica 345 Cabeca:
podiscreuza@... : 35678903: rua japao 876
maolvni@...

Saskatoon: Jeremiah Whipp (306)230-0951 -- 1800 Main St (Apt
42), Saskatoon, Sask. S7H4B3.

Sofia: Chris Pantchev Xpu100 <hri100@...>

Soltau: Sven <vandreike@...>, 05191-975296
Meet up at 15:30h at the Hagen - Demonstration starts at 16:00h

Stafford: Simon  wrxmanuk@... +447816485762  Concert @ stafford
town square

Stockton: mikaela/free the weed  912-884-6144
veganarchy16@... veganarchy16@...
http://www.hipforums.com 322 lake dr, stockton, california

Stuttgart: <info@...>,
http://www.drogenpolitik.org Verein fuer Drogenpolitik e.V. Info
stall from 11:00h-17:00h. corner K-nigstrasse / B¸chsenstrasse

Tallahassee: (850)321-8311 ask for Matt <fsunorml@...>
Ricky Bradford FSU NORML c/o Oglesby, Union Student Activities
Office, FL 32306

Taos: Danielle Romero (505)770-5260 or Joanne Foreman
<jofo@...> 505-751-1102

Thunder Bay: Doug Thompson <docclone@...> 807-475-7436

Upper Lake, Ca.: Linda & Eddy Lepp"linda senti"
<lisenti@...> 707-275-8879

Vega Alta: jose a hernandez <josefaruk1@...> location Park
Recreativo. Que Viva La Musica Coqui Coqui.

Vermilion: Sonny Morris 967-6069 sonny44089@...  309
devonshire, event location: Vermilion Lake Park 4 PM

Vienna: 5. Hanffeuer, Bushdoctor <martin@...>
http://www.bushdoctor.at Phone: +43 (01) 524 04 40, Fax: +43
(01) 524 04 24, Kirchengasse 19, A-1070, Vienna, Austria"

Vilnius: "Andrius Brazas" <brazhas@...>
http://www.hardcore 370 98 84714

Walton: Dave Baughman 620-837-4496 <Davyblues1@...>
http://www.kan-sativa.com 124 S. Walton Ave., Walton, Kansas
67151

Winston-Salem: Queen Selassie (336) 661-0684 4469 Indiana Ave,
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27105

Wolfenb¸ttel: <solid-wf@...> This is an info stall in
Wolfenb¸ttel. I'm not sure about the exact location yet. It's
organized by ['solid], the youth organization affiliated with
the PDS (a socialist party)

Worcester: C.J. & Judi Bunn, 413-245-3675 #9 Maybrook Rd,
Holland, MA 01521

Yellow Springs: Devon Ronaldson <soulrebel@...> 937 769
1764 c/o Student mailr oom, 795 livermore st., yellow springs OH
45387

Zagreb: "Sergio Stifanic" <fine_time909@...> GALOVICEVA
10, 10000 ZAGREB Phone: ++385 1 2330667

Zurich: Swiss Hanf Koordination Sekretariat + 41-31-398-144
<infor@...> a free apéro for all our customers in
our hemp-store:
CHanf++ GmbH, Zweierstrasse 124, CH-8003 Zürich

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From: David Crockett Williams gear2000@...

Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:43:17 -0700

Subject: [mayday] report, 2002 Los Angeles MMM, San Francisco comments

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To: greenpartydrugsgroup@..., "Dana Beal" <dana@...>


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UN Climate Treaty "grandfather" and honorary chairman of The American
Agenda Commitee, Alden Bryant opened the program at the San Francisco MMM
in UN Plaza with the "UN Cantada of Human Rights" song and his message of
appreciation for medical marijuana activists' work to re-legalize hemp so
it can be widely cultivated as the best plant for saving the trees due to
its superior applications for paper and other tree products, for "fixing"
atmospheric carbon dioxide to ameliorate the greenhouse effect, and for
replenishing atmospheric oxygen to help heal Earth's protective ozone
layer depleted by chemicals and the reduction of atmospheric oxygen from
which ozone layer is made due to fossil fuel combustion of oxygen. Bryant
also discussed and urged support for the hemp re-legalization supporting
independent candidacy of Richard Alevizos for Oregon Governor
http://www.richforgov.com . Please support Alden Bryant's efforts as
honorary chairman of The American Agenda Committee working towards a new
Climate Stabilization Act and Treaty this year
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-american-agenda for consideration at the
UN Eath Summit this August
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/climate-stabilization-treaty and a companion
Hemp Reform Act to re-legalized cannabis-hemp-marijuana for all purposes
in the United States which is the main country opposing its
re-legalization worldwide http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hemp-reform-act

The MMM Liberation Day 2002 events in Los Angeles took place over two days
May 3-4th featuring a walk by about 30 sign-carrying mostly South Central
LA residents in downtown LA on Friday May 3rd from the Federal Building to
City Hall and environs with Sister Somayah Kambui on the bullhorn
exhorting the rush hour traffic crowd to support a Los Angeles ordinance
for relief of medical marijuana patients still being prosecuted by Los
Angeles officials in spite of CA State law resultant from Proposition 215
passed into law as part of CA Health and Safety Code in 1996 (eg, Sister
Somayah's own two cases, one in 1998 resulting in acquittal and court
ordered return of her 35 medical cannabis plants, and her recent trial
ending last month which also resulted in acquittal of all charges stemming
from confiscation of her last year's 32 plants -- she has pending claims
for money damages with the city for 1998 bust and is considering civil
lawsuit for damages over recent case). At City Hall there was a
significant extra police contingent monitoring the crowd and getting an
earful of the walkers' challenge to LA medical marijuana enforcement
policies.

I suggest others in CA fighting this Prop215 enforcement problem, return
of plants by cops after acquittal, etc., contact her for info that might
be useful from her 1998 "return of plants" precedent for legalese details
that might help other such cases in SF etc.

On Saturday, May 4th, with permits finally granted a week before the
event, the Liberation Day Rally was held in South Central Los Angeles'
Leimert Village Plaza Park at Vernon and Crenshaw, near where the riots
took place 10years ago after acquittal of police officers involved in the
Rodney King beating. This park is a wedge shaped small nice city park with
lots of passing foot and vehicle traffic which drew perhaps a couple
hundred folks during the day to stop by and see what was going on and the
crowd at any one time numbered perhaps over a hundred or so folks
including Jack Herer who spent the afternoon signing books, vending hemp
merchandise, and responding to Sister Somayah's encouragement and
invitation, Jack took the stage explaining that he has recovered
sufficiently from his stroke a couple of years ago to be able to start
speaking publicly again which he did with typical fervor explaining that
his conclusion after all his years researching the hemp plant that
hemp/cannabis/marijuana is more useful for humanity and healing the
Earth's atmosphere "than all other plants on Earth combined". He concluded
his remarks by saying that cannabis is a very important and good medicine
which in all its long history before and since being outlawed in 1937
(especially poignant in light of recent studies indicating death by
prescription drugs to be the fourth leading cause of death in the United
States), "nobody in history has ever died from using marijuana, unless
they were shot by a cop!" Jack and others were interviewed by
videographers present doing a TV program for Sister Somayah, and by
mainstream media reporters at least one of which (Channel 2) had a piece
on the TV news that night about the event.

The program of music and speakers was excellent with just about every
aspect of related issues covered by the various speakers. At one point two
contingents of police on bicycles entered and stood watch in the park
until leaving after confronted by Sister Somayah's antics after which she
sat on the lawn and smoked her medicinal cannabis herb and they left.
Sister Somayah's network of activists from the LA African-American
community took their role very seriously in organizing and conducting this
event, inviting representative speakers from many cultures to offer their
messages, representing justice and truth, and as well, offering a new
symbol for the medical marijuana legalization movement using a red hemp
leaf as a logo for the "Red Leaf Society". Kind of reminded me of the
story Jack Herer tells about how he happened to have the time to write the
first edition of his landmark book, later edited by Chris Conrad et al and
reprinted in many editions, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes".

Jack explains that during Ronald Reagan's campaign for United States
president he happened to visit the West Los Angeles Federal Building while
Jack and crew were conducting a voter registration and
hemp-cannabis-marijuana re-legalization CA ballot inititiative signature
campaign outside the building, and Reagan noticed but did not recognize
the green hemp leaf logos on the signs on display there at that permitted
gathering/demonstration, so presidential candidate Reagan asked the
officials inside the Federal Building "what are the Canadians protesting
about outside?" (mistaking the hemp leaf logo for the Canadian red maple
leaf flag). When they explained to Reagan that those were marijuana
legalization activists, he said "well, after I get elected President we
will see what we can do about that in the future". Sometime after Reagan
was elected, Jack and crew returned to that Federal building for the same
purpose and he was on that occasion arrested and imprisoned on bogus
charges stemming from his legitimate activities there registering voters
and collecting ballot access signatures. During this incarceration he had
the time to compose the first draft of "The Emperor..." based on so much
information people had given him since 1973 when he published his first
book on the subject which he wrote with Al Emmanuel, "GRASS, Great
Evolutionary American Standard System, The Official Guide for Assessing
the Quality of Marijuana on the 1 to 10 Scale (for determining what you
have and where you are at)", which ironically was taken up by the Feds as
also their standard reference on how to rate "strength" of marijuana.
http://www.jackherer.com

Although not yet one of the larger annual MMM events, this ongoing effort
in Los Angeles is very important and significant especially in light of
the specifically racial prejudice inflamation tactics originally used by
Hearst, et. al., against African Americans falsely fomenting "black man
smokes joint and rapes white woman" kind of hysteria that Hearst
newspapers promoted for many years creating the public hysteria by which
hemp-cannabis was outlawed in 1937 by calling it marijuana and not telling
the public or Congress that "marijuana" was the Spanish slang word for the
same plant as the latin "cannabis" used in the majority of US pharmacopia
at the time, the same plant known in English as "hemp" which had been,
until slavery and the cotton gin made cotton more profitable than hemp,
humanity's most useful and most widely used plant from time immemorial for
the overall majority of Earth's paper, fiber, food, fuel, construction
materials, medicines, etc.

With racial profiling still apparently a way of life with the LAPD, Sister
Somayah repeatedly explained how the level of fear of police harassment,
especially for marijuana, among the African American Community is so high
that they are not just scared but scarred. This situation warrants all MMM
activists monitoring on an ongoing basis especially in light of previous
MMM NYC speaker Mike Ruppert's research (as editor of From The Wilderness
Publications and a former Los Angeles Police Department narcotics
investigator and now leading independent investigative journalist on intel
agency corruption of the Drug War) showing intentional complicity and
enormous profits circulating in the US economy from CIA agents in the
illegal drug trade as a primary reason for hemp's continuing prohibition
http://www.copvcia.com, and in light of former GHW Bush's Assistant
Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Catherine Austin Fitt's
computer data tracking program showing how HUD housing in African American
communities such as South Central LA were/are being intentionally targeted
for confiscation and "gentrification" of inner cities using DrugWar
arrests as pretext for HUD property confiscations (this info and
government reaction to this exposure cost Fitts the loss of $100 million
after this computer program saved HUD billions of dollars by restructuring
loan processes) http://www.solari.com

For these reasons the LA MMM events in future can be very important for
correcting these injustices by bringing out this information year to year,
month to month, day to day, etc. I suggest next year's MMM event might
well and easily set up on same format as this year, locations, etc., to
build momentum better with more advanced arrangements, until such time as
Leimert Village Plaza Park overflows and the following year a larger
location is available. I think it is very important to use this venue and
team of organizers to bring out these and related important messages in LA
and around the world via the MMM network.

For my part, the three hour drive from where I live in Tehachapi during
that time of day traffic made me too late to walk on May 3rd, so all I
could do was follow the march by car and appreciate deeply the dedication
of those walking. On Saturday, I was delayed by need to help Jack Herer
and crew get to the event by early afternoon so I missed my chance to
present the 10-minute talk Sister Somayah asked me to do, but was able
under open microphone time to emphasize that the Federal marijuana
prohibition effected in 1937 was/is literally a fraud on the US Congress
and people still not widely understood today where the "Drug Czar" at that
time, Anslinger, lied to Congress during closed door hearings preceding
Congressional vote passing prohibition when he told Congress that the
American Medical Association was in favor of outlawing marijuana when in
fact the AMA representative told him days earlier that he had just found
out that marijuana was the source of the cannabis used in most all US
medicines at the time and the AMA was NOT in favor of outlawing this main
medicinal plant at that time fully utilized by the medical community in
recommended medicines. I urged folks to understand these details, as
explained and referenced for example in "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," so
that this theme of "Cannabis hemp has been outlawed since 1937 in a
still-ongoing Fraud on the US Congress and People" can better grab the
attention and interest to get to the truth of the matter by the public and
Congress.

I gave out copies of the California State University at Northridge student
newspaper April 2nd front-page photo and "Political group puts the grass
in grassroots" article about the March 20th Earth Day Ceremony on campus
http://sundial.csun.edu/sun/02s/040202ne2.htm which included Jack Herer,
Brian O'Leary, and Sister Somayah's participation a few days after her
recent acquittal at trial mentioned above, and the subsequent CSUN Sundial
article of April 4th interviewing Jack Herer as follows:

CSUN Daily Sundial article of April 4th:

Medicinal weed use blurs illegality

by Alfie Rancopollo, Sundial Staff

Under federal law, marijuaan or hemp is illegal to sell, grow, buy, or
possess, though many still beilieve its use should be completely
permitted.

In 1988, under the ruling of Judge Francis Young, an administrative law
judge for the Drug Enforcement Administration, marijuana was reclassified
as
[having] "currently accepted medical use."

"Hemp is the only medicine on the planet that never killed anyone," said
Jack Herer, author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", a book of the
history of hemp and its uses.

Marijuana has many possible medical uses, including the treatment of such
diseases as cancer, AIDS and glaucoma.

Marijuana increases a person's appetite as well as relieving nausea,
allowing a patient to gain weight.

Gino, who did not want to give his full name, smokes marijuana after every
meal to settle his stomach.

"I smoke pot to keep the food in," Gino said.

Hemp is used in 40 different forms of medicine, according to Herer.
"(Hemp
is used for) paralysis; everything you can think of," he said.

The Food and Drug Administration recognized the use of marijuana for
medicinal purposes and granted permits to patients in the United States.
Each state has its own provisions for the medical use of marijuana.  In
California, patients are allowed to obtain 25 to 50 plants a year for
medical purposes.

"I had 25 plants this year and 25 plants last year," Herer said.

In California, 300,000 patients have doctor's permission to grow marijuana
in their back yards or basements, Herer said.

Marijuana use has many effects; one that is a favorite among users is
euphoria.

Herer has already collected 700,000 signatures to petition the
legalization
of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

------end Daily Sundial article

I explained briefly about The American Agenda campaign for a
Hemp Reform Act introduction to Congress this year, for its full
re-legalization for all purposes, as part of the "Five Fingers of The Hand
of Peace" including other urgent issues/legislation warranting active
promotion and passage into law this year (Space Preservation Act HR3616,
Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act HR2503, a Climate
Stabilization Act and Treaty, Energy Reform Act, and Hemp Reform Act)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-american-agenda
http://groups.yahoo.com/'group/hemp-reform-act

In addition, I announced and circulated for signatures the Global Peace
Zone Development Proclamations for Capital Hills, California, and an
additional one proclaiming Leimert Park as Los Angeles' first Global Peace
Zone Ceremonial Area as part of the campaign for a Global Peace Zone
designation for the City of Los Angeles by mayoral proclamation which
request is pending with the mayor's office since submission about 3 weeks
ago in conjunction with the Global Peace Walk project's Global Peace Zone
campaign via which so far 12 US cities and counties have been proclaimed
Global Peace Zones by their Mayors or County Boards of Supervisors in
support of the prayer for "Global Peace Now!" as a Universal Human
Resolve. http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-zones

At the event I met Marvin Chavez, Sr., Patient and Executive Director of
the Orange County Patient Doctor Nurse Suppprt Group, who has a next court
date of June 14th for his pending trial on cultivation and possession for
sale charges associated wtih his medical marijuana use and growing of 46
confiscated plants. This seems the next case warranting close attention
and activism in California especially since this court date coincides with
Flag Day in the US and therefore an interesting symbolic date to bring out
the original role and history of hemp-cannabis-marijuana in the US since
even pre-colonial times. marvinchavezsr@...

The event was videotaped by BopTail Studios whose president Mr. Rudy was
in attendance jahlambs@...

Many thanks to all MMM organizers and coordinators for all their hard work
and dedication, and especially thanks to Dana Beal for his longtime
tireless efforts and savy organizing of this annual Million Marijuana
March event and promotion of information about the Ibogaine addition
ameliorative. http://www.cures-not-wars.org

David Crockett Williams, C.L.U., B.S.
661-822-3309
General Agent, Chartered Life Underwriter, Activist
http://www.GeneralAgencyServices.com
Tehachapi, California
CLU degree 1971 American College
BS degree with honors, Chemistry 1969 CSUN

For the direct cause of true peace with harmony among all life and
free natural abundance as paradise on Earth via a future global
computer network psibernetics program called Torahk.
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-energy-solutions

Interim Secretary, The American Agenda Committee
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-american-agenda

An American Peace Movement
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement

Global Peace Zones Development Project
for "Global Peace Now!" as a Universal Human Resolve
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-zones

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create more such web pages, and help existing ones compile more MMM
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Cannabis Action homepage. Please bookmark it:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction

Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and media reports to CannabisNews.com at
submissions@... where FoM may compile them at:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm



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-----Forwarded message from Steve Kubby begins-----

  From: Steve Kubby <steve@...>
Organization: http://www.kubby.org/
Reply-To: Steve Kubby <steve@...>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:05:07 -0700
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: KUB: Pot TV:  Million Marijuana March / Tokers' Bowl

Pot TV News for MAY 6, 2002
Special Report: Million Marijuana March / Tokers' Bowl
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1311.html
Length: 10 minutes

  (WARNING:  Today's Pot TV News contains graphic images of Life, Liberty
  and the Pursuit of Happiness.)

MARIJUANA ADVOCATES ROCK VANCOUVER
Across Canada, marijuana users stand up to be heard.

THOUSANDS MARCH IN S.F. FOR LEGALIZATION
San Francisco speaks out, while waiting for Federal crackdown.

N.Y. NARKS GO UNDERCOVER TO MAKE BUSTS
Despite confessions of N.Y. Mayor that he "smoked pot and enjoyed it,"
undercover NY City police arrested 148 for simple possession.

U.K. CROWDS DEMAND LEGALIZATION
Thousands of pro-cannabis demonstrators held peaceful marches and outdoor
parties, picnics and festivals in cities across Britain at the weekend to
campaign for legalisation of the drug.

CANADIAN SENATE WANTS DECRIM
Senate committee has recommended Canada decriminalize marijuana, saying
there is no scientific evidence that it leads to harder drugs.

TOKERS' BOWL REPORT:
Cheers erupted from the crowd, when the captain advised the 200 guests
that,
"We are safely beyond the reach of law enforcement and cannot be boarded."

------end of forwarded Steve Kubby email-------

----------------------

*One-stop headquarters for MMM (Million Marijuana March) Cannabis
Liberation Day rally reports worldwide. With 200+ MMM cities worldwide it
is in no way a complete archive. So use the cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com
  email address for sending in MMM reports, photos, attachments, links,
info, HTML pages, plain-text messages, etc.. Anybody can use this address.
There is no need to subscribe to anything first. Messages sent to this
email address will end up in the public archive. There are also links to
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create more such web pages, and help existing ones compile more MMM
reports. MMM compilations and the public archive are linked from the
Cannabis Action homepage. Please bookmark it:
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Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and media reports to CannabisNews.com at
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Don't forget to check out the other MMM rally report compilation page links
after the forwarded Dana Beal message below. There are more web pages with
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----Forwarded message begins-----

From: "Dana Beal" dana@...

Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:44:40 -0700

Subject: [mayday] MMM 2002 'round the World, 2nd Edition; Sign up now for
May 3 2003 Global March for Cannabis Liberation!, what are you waiting
for?!?

Reply-to: mayday@yahoogroups.com

To: greenpartydrugsgroup@...

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******!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!******

From: Blair Anderson <blair@...>
Reply-To: blair@...
Organization: Techno Junk and Grey Matter  & Mild Green Initiative
mildgreens.com
X-Accept-Language: en
To: alcp forum <forum@...>
Subject: [Christchurch] J Day Press Release
Status:

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE USE

May 5, 2002


500 people smoke cannabis in Cathedral Square for
International J Day,
   May 4, 2002.

Under beautiful sunny skies, over 500 people turned up in the Cathedral
Square on Saturday afternoon to celebrate International J Day, 2002.
International J Day, celebrated in over 190 cities worldwide, is a
celebration of the cannabis plant as a recreational drug, non-toxic medicine
for a variety of conditions, and - in the form of hemp - a source of food,
bio-degradable plastic, UV resistant clothing and ozone-friendly car fuel.
Christchurch J Day participants were treated to a variety of speakers,
events and musicians. Larry Ross from Drugs For Arms explained how drug
prohibition artificially inflates the price of cannabis and other illegal
substances to the point where it is able to fund many international
terrorist groups. Hagley-Ferrymead Board member Yani Johansen read a message
from Christchurch East MP Tim Barnett reinforcing Labour's committment to
reform. Mike Britnell from the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party announced
the kickoff to his party's election campaign. Green Party spokesperson Paul
de Spar reiterated the Green's policy of allowing adults to have cannabis
for personal use.
Highlight of the day's rally - which was billed as a strictly R18 event -
was a "joint scramble" and the declaration of a prohibition-free zone in the
heart of the Garden City. About 500 people openly smoked cannabis while
music played and jugglers juggled. The atmosphere was open and relaxed.
There were no arrests or incidents of any kind.
Spokesperson for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML), Stephen McIntyre, said that this represented a huge shift in the
mind of the public over the past few years. "More and more people are seeing
cannabis for what it really is - a relatively harmless social drug that has
enormous potential in healing and helping to clean up a polluted planet", he
said.
"Five years ago, having a huge smoke-in of this type in the Square would
have been unthinkable. The fear element is slowly disappearing and the
Police are generally turning more of a blind eye to things of this nature",
Mr McIntyre said.

"Given the fact that over half our adult population now admit to having used
cannabis, I wonder why the Health Select Committee is being so slow in
presenting its report to Parliament", he continued. "Cannabis law reform is
a vital issue to the 35 Kiwis arrested daily for using or possessing
cannabis. The Government seems to feel that the cannabis issue is a
potential vote loser; but with over half a million current users, I say that
it's got to be a vote winner", said Mr McIntyre.
__________

From: "freddie" <freddiefreak@...>
Mailing-List: list mayday@yahoogroups.com; contact
mayday-owner@yahoogroups.com
Delivered-To: mailing list mayday@yahoogroups.com
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:mayday-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 02:44:00 +0200
Subject: [mayday] Aftermarch
Reply-To: mayday@yahoogroups.com
Status:

Hi people,
I got some of the reports from mmm2002 here:
<http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/PottNytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/m
mm2002_aftermarch__05_2002.htm>http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/Pott
Nytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/mmm2002_aftermarch__05_2002.htm<http://ww
w.stuff.co.nz/inl/print/0,1103,1190379a3845,FF.html>

freddie
<http://www.freddiefreak.com>www.freddiefreak.com

Working overtime these days :O)
________


Pubdate: Tue, 30 Apr 2002
Source: BBC News (UK Web)
Copyright: 2002 BBC
Contact: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/forum/
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/558
Author: Christine Demsteader
Webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/features/cannabis_man/carl_wagner.shtml
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

HULL'S MARIJUANA MISSIONARY

BBCi Humber Meets Carl Wagner, The Man At The Centre Of Hull's Herb-Smoking
Scandal

Carl Wagner has a vision. To open the city's first cannabis cafe and see
all criminal association with the plant go up in smoke.

The owner of the Divine Herb stall in Hull's indoor market is a man on a
marijuana mission.

As he chats, the free-flowing customers come and go and his phone rings
incessantly.

Having already spoken to The Guardian and The Yorkshire Post, he deals with
press interest with seeming ease.


URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n871.a04.html
Webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/features/cannabis_man/carl_wagner.shtml

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From: "ARON KAY" <pieman@...>
To: <dana@...>
Subject: imc ireland newswire
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:05:57 -0400
Organization: GLOBAL PASTRY UPRISING
X-Priority: 3
Status:

   <http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=3167>http://www.indy
media.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=3167

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
	 name="imc ireland newswire.url"

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From: Pedro Dantas - Reporter - Globo On <pedrodantas@...>
To: "'cnw@...'" <cnw@...>
Subject: Milion Marijuana March in Brazil
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:29:06 -0300
Status:

Dears Cures-Not-Wars members,

My name is Pedro Dantas. I'm a brazilian reporter from a national newspaper
called O Globo. I'm covering  the first Milion Marijuana March that occured
in Rio de Janeiro. Rio police departament provided a strong security scheme
to watch the event that reunited over 500 people. Now, the police announced
that intend identify and prossecute the leaderships of the manifestation. I
want to know the position of someone from the Cures-Not Wars direction about
this retaliation and what do you intend to do about that.

Please answer to : pedrodantas@...

Thanks,

Pedro Dantas- O Globo 55 21 2534 5553 // 55 21 99597750
________________________________________________

From: "Silvia Inchaurraga" <sinchaur@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Rosario, Argentina MMM report
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:11:13 -0300
X-Priority: 3
Status:


Rosario, Argentina MM March
Good news !
The local organizers the Argentinean Harm Reduction Association ARDA
and the Argentinean Network of Drug Users RADDUD have a very positive
analyses
Everything O.K, we had nearly 400 persons and a pacific march that
went over downtown peatonal area ( 1,5Km) with music and the
involvement of the rock singer Popono from Los Vandalos.
Several organizations were involved as the regional network of people
living with HIV, and several NGOS as well as some representatives of
public areas. The police stayed at the end of the marchers, without
causing any trouble
Big impact and participation of the press, national media (Clarin, la
Nacion, Azul TV, America TV, canal 26) and local media (La Capital,
El Ciudadano, Rosario 12, Canal 3, canal 5, Canal 4, canal 6). At the
end of the march Osvaldo Juncos from Raddud and  Gustavo Hurtado from
ARDA spoke about the principles of the MMM and abrogate for
decriminalization of personal use in Argentina.
Few smokers at the end of the act claimed for their rights, without
any involvement of the police.
The day before the Argentinean Harm Reduction Association ARDA
presented a national survey in wich general population of Rosario
city agrees in 87% in medical marihuana, 42% on marihuana
legalization (that is 64% of population between 18 and 24 years) and
45% agrees in decriminalization of drugs possession for personal use.
ARDA collected signatures during the event for the derogation of the
article 14 that punishes drugs possession for personal use.

Pictures attached here and in next mails
Regards
Silvia
_______

From: "PsilocyberSpore" <PsilocyberSpore@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Providence MMM
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 20:38:30 -0400
X-Priority: 3
Status:

Dana,
Hi, I attended the events in Providence, RI this saturday.
Unfortunately, the event was not well publicized and very unorganized
in Providence, and only 8 people showed up, none of which were the
contact person (Ann or Dave).  I am very displeased with the showing
in Providence, and would like to be the contact person/organizer for
Rhode Island next year. I have experience organizing and advertising
2 annual hemp fests that took place on the University of Rhode Island
campus, which each drew a crowd of over 1,000 people.  Please email
me and let me know what you think.  I believe that I can make it
happen next year in RI and generate a buzz for some media coverage.
Peace,
Tom Angell
________

From: "Mr. Rob Rob" <damnrobrob@...>
Subject: Re: First Reports: Million Marijuana March 2002 Around the
World; Please send a Report on Yr MMM 2002 Event....
To: dana@..., greenpartydrugsgroup@...

Status:

On Saturday May 4th well over 2,000 hempsters showed
for the New Paltz Leg of MMM and RAR III - from 2pm to
6pm & 7pm to 11pm at The Old Main QUAD on SUNY at New
Paltz campus - The school never smelled so good! MMM
bands included: MessenJah, The Studio Stankers, and
Apple Pickers Union speakers were: Rob Robinson (New
Paltz NORML, NY State CAN, HVHC etc), Garrit Cain
(SU-SSDP), Sean Silverman (New Paltz NORML), Sir
Edmund The Green (local activist)and Scott Jeffery
(Libritarian Candidate for Gov. of NY). their were no
(NO) police at all - through the whole day! at 6pm we
assembyled the troops and marched through the village
of New Paltz - this was a great march with towns
people, store owners and workers and drivers shouting,
honking and smiling support at us - the march got 1/3
bigger picking up folks on the way - marchers totaled
over 500 - we marched back to Old Main QUAD for the
7-11pm RAR III where Tony Vacca and World Rythems w/
Gokh-Bi System performed - The headliners were Toots &
The Maytals - and what a performance and show -
speakers were Prof of Black Studies Zelbert Moore and
School paper the Fahari editor in cheif Laurance
Seeley. MC was Rob Robinson from New Paltz NORML the
hosts of this great event - media was present local
papers as well as TV - was a fun and effective event -
proud to be part of the over 180 world wide - what an
event in a quiet up-state college town - wakein them
up in up state - New Paltz NORML
____________

From: "preston peet" <ptpeet@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Re: First Reports: Pig-headed Arrests Mar MMM NYC 2002 Event
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:44:58 -0400
X-Priority: 3
Status:

http://www.drugwar.com/pmmmstealthyarrests.shtm
Here you go Dana.
Peace,
Preston
_______

From: "cappleby3014" <cappleby3014@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Re: First Reports: Million Marijuana March 2002 Around the
World; Please send a Report on Yr MMM 2002 Event....
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:49:46 -0400


Dear Dana;Overall we in Ottawa had a success for our first
march.While the crowds were in the hundreds the spirit was alive and
well.Speeches by Eugene Oscapella,Rick Reimer,Rob Brown and Don
Appleby.Also known marijuana activist Johnnie Dupuis from Montreal
spoke as well.We had Celtic music and there were ALMOST no
ARRESTS.With the exception of our event organizer Don Appleby's
arrest for possession and quick release from detention.As I have aids
and a federal exemption as well with my medicine intact.I was however
dismayed that the police asked me twice why I had my exemption and
for me my medical condition is well publicized so it was a non issue
but for many others it is a question of do they have to disclose to
police.All in all Dana a great day for Canadians to celebrate their
freedom I look forward to working with you again next year.You and
your people have been great.Am preparing to address the Senate
Committee on Drug policy in Ottawa will keep you up to date.Your
friend Donnie Appleby CEO-Deadman seed Co..Peace and love

_______

From: "Larry Duprey" <larryduprey@...>
To: dana@...
Subject: Toronto day late but big success
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 11:05:18 +0000


Toronto, blessed with a bautiful sunny day held it's third annual
Million Marijuana March.The press is reporting 3000 plus ,but our
estimates were closer to 6000.

The Toronto city sponsoured sound stage (the first time the march has
had a sound system)was fantastic.The march left from city square at 2
pm returning back an hour later to speakers and a live band. Open
smoking was tollerated by the police both on the parade route and at
the event. A 70 gram joint was sparked at 420 and we rocked until
early evening.Press the next day was mixed, some negative, many
positive.

We give a big thanks to Dana and the crew in New York for their
tireless efforts,we start our organizing for next year at our next
monthly meeting of the Toronto Area Association of the Marijuana
Party of Canada.

Larry Duprey

_____________


From: OCannabisSociety@...
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:36:35 EDT
Subject: Cleveland, Ohio Report
To: dana@...
Status:

2,000 protesters gather to surround the Cuyahoga County Justice Center
(CCJC)
which is a full city block.  Marchers surrounded the CCJC easily then
retired
to Huntington Park to party.  The smell of cannabis was in the air but
wasn't
blatant.

Media response was good.  Channel 19 WOIO did a very good-news story and was
broadcasted at 6 & 11pm.  The Cleveland Plain Dealer had a very good photo
in
the Sunday Metro section of John Hartman (march organizer) leading the march
down Ontario St. (one of the main streets in downtown Cleveland).

Peace
John Hartman
____________

From: "NFN Enterprise" <nfn@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: MMM 2002 UPDATE


MMM 2002 UPDATE for Batesville / Oxford Mississippi:

or should we say Bakedville, Ms.
Aprox 250 people joined to protest the "war on drugs"
The rally included music from ACRE WOOD as well as 3 local Celebes
who spoke up as to the benefits of medical marijuana as well as
industrial and personal uses. The event lasted about 2 hours with no
interference from local law ( thanks ). We have already had vounteers
sign up for next year which included another band and speaker so look
out big cities.


__________


From: "Chris Wright" <tcw@...>
To: <dana@...>
Subject: MMM Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:55:15 -0500
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
Status:

Hi Dana,

We had a glorious day here in Minneapolis with 400 participants.  The
weather was blustery but everyone enjoyed listening to the music of the 420
All-Stars and the Kung Fu Hippies.  We had some good speeches by Tim Davis,
Green for Senate, and our first elected official to speak at a smoke-in,
City Council-Member Dean Zimmerman.  After my speech, I marched the crowd to
the Democratic State Convention to light a fire under their asses.  There
were no arrests despite some who were caught on film by the local CBS
affiliate lighting up a hand blown pipe.  Of course, despite being
interviewed by local newspapers and film media present at the convention,
there was no more coverage.  But the Democrats know we were there and they
won't be forgetting the 400 patriotic potheads who disrupted their
nomination of Roger Moe for Governor.

Afterwards we marched to Washburn Fair-Oaks for a drum circle and smoked up
the statue of George Washington that was erected in the park.

The day was enjoyed by all and we thank you and the krewe for all your help.
Take it easy.  Chris Wright

_________


From: "criley" <criley@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: THE MOST FUN WE'VE HAD SINCE THE 60's!
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:12:23 -0500
X-Priority: 3
Status:

Here's our report for Wichita and Walton, Kansas.  Bear in mind that,
because of our very recent reorganization, we didn't have much more
than a week to prepare for and publicize our event.  We just know
we'll do better next year!!


The Greater Wichita/Walton Million Marijuana March of 2002

      There may not have been a huge crowd of us, but 35 brave folks
from 2 to 87 years old all had the supreme satisfaction of peaceably
demonstrating for our cause on Saturday, May 4th.  Carrying signs
urging legalization, we marched from South Riverside Park, past the
Federal Courthouse to Sedgwick County Courthouse, past the jail, and
back to the park.  A hard-working photojournalist from Channel 12
documented the event, and interviewed some of the demonstrators
afterward.
(We made the 10 o'clock news, where we were credited with a turnout
of "about 50".)

      During the march we attracted a lot of positive attention and
shows of support from those who share our beliefs, if not our
passion.   There was not a riot, no one was hurt, nor was anyone
arrested or even confronted by the police--though 2 or 3 in a van
were spotted snapping photos, presumably of everyone participating.
(They needn't have bothered; one visit to our site...ksnorml.org, and
they'll soon see our own photos of the event.  It was fine with
everyone there to have their pix posted--we have nothing to hide.)

      Everyone involved appeared to be having a great time on a perfect
spring day, graciously provided by God, and came away knowing we'd
done more than just complain to each other about the "Reefer Madness"
pervading our legal system.


<file://C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\MicrosoftShared\Stationery\/ksnorm
l.org>KSC NORML
_________

......Well, Dana, Salt Lake City got about 300 noisy marchers.  The crowd
marched through downtown Salt Lake City, recieved television and newspaper
coverage, and landed us over 100 new activists names and e-mails for ours
and your list.  We are processing the list now.  Dennis Peron spoke and was
well recieved.  One newspaper article appears below. The only error is the
estimate of the crowd number..

Andy (In Utah):

SLC Rally Promotes Medical Marijuana
http://www.sltrib.com/05052002/utah/734220.htm
                                                                Sunday, May
5,
2002

BY KEVIN CANTERA
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

A noisy band of pro-marijuana marchers moved through Salt Lake
City on Saturday with a blunt message -- it's time to legalize medical pot
in Utah.
Marijuana "has the power to make us a more loving and
compassionate society," said California activist Dennis Peron, leading the
raucous and tie-dyed crowd up to the state Capitol, where they rallied on
the Statehouse steps.
About 200 people turned out for the Million Marijuana March, many sporting
green pot leaf stamps on their faces, others carrying signs with messages
like, "Marijuana is good medicine: The only side effect is  happiness."
The group cheered and called out "Smoke weed!" as passing drivers honked
their support. The march and rally -- one of 185 scheduled to take place
around the world -- was organized by Peron, the self-styled "father of
medical marijuana," along with Utah activists Ken Larsen and Ben Valdez.
Peron, a San Francisco native who led the successful 1996 initiative drive
in California legalizing medical use of cannabis, faces trial in Cedar
City's 5th District Court for possession of marijuana with intent to
distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. He and two companions were
arrested last year after Cedar City police allegedly found more than a
pound of pot in their motel room and car. Peron, who carries prescriptions
from three California doctors allowing him to use weed to treat his
alcoholism, has vowed to fight the charges. He hopes Utah will join eight
other states, including Nevada and Colorado, which have put medical
marijuana laws on their books. "I am proud of the people of Utah," he told
the cheering group. "We changed the law of the land in California . . . We
can do it here."  Trying to make that possible, Rebecca Vandevener moved
through the crowd, enthusiastically gathering signatures for The Utah
Therapeutic Humane Cannabis Act, a proposed ballot initiative.  "This is for
all the people who are suffering," said Vandevener, who suffers from cancer
and says that "marijuana is the only thing that works."
By smoking marijuana, Vandevener says she is able to counter the nausea that
accompanies her cancer treatment. "It just makes sense. We can do it in
Utah," she said.
And even though Peron himself admits that the group will be unable to gather
the 76,180 signatures needed by June 1 to put the initiative on this year's
ballot, organizers say that their first task is to get the
message to voters.  "If we create a debate, we will win," said John
Entwistle, another California activist who worked with Peron in 1996.
"People in Utah are more networked than we are in California,"
Entwistle said. "A good idea in Utah can spread very quickly."  The most
important step is to convince the state's lawmakers that medical marijuana
makes sense, and has the support of many in the
medical community, Entwistle said.kcantera@...

----------


From: "Mary Mackenzie" <mmackenzie@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: 30 Last Year, Over 130 Yesterday
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:58:57 -0700
X-Priority: 3
Status:

Dana,
We did it, almost 5 times as many people this year and we're planning
next year's as we speak. Thank you for EVERYTHING!

The Tucson AZ4NORML MMMarch met at 1pm and marched promptly at 2pm.
One of our directors and i put up three signs at 10:30 am, two in the
median to direct the marchers and one we hung on a University of
Arizona building.  Before we arrived at 12:30, (we were still making
signs and putting our gift packages together) the two directional
signs in the median had been confiscated by Officer Friendly,
Corporeal Juan S.  He was our shadow cop.  The other six police cars
were not seen by any marchers, just our peripheral patients in
cars who circled those who were circling us.

A 45 year young female patient with her Electric Chair (i didn't get
her name but i will--don't ask)  who has muscular degeneration with
arthritis beginning at the age of three arrived at the starting point
early and caught Officer Juan in the act of removing our signs.  If
they had been garage sale signs they would still be in the median.
C'est la guerre.

As the marchers arrived we continued making signs, most people don't
bring anything, but we did have one young man win the Best of Sign
Contest, that i spontaneously implemented when i saw it.  He made
bars which he held like he was in jail and his sign somehow sat on
top of the bars.   He received a custom made tie dye t shirt with
MMM, May 4, 2002, and several large cannabis leaves, airbrushed on it
at the Rally.   A large contingent of young Hispanics arrived just in
time to take down the sign we put on the building as campus security
had been called in by, you know who.  These young men took to the
intersection, four of them, back and fourth with our NORML Millennium
Marijuana March sign as each light turned and the support was 99 and
99/100's%.  The energy was perfect and then we hit it.

<http://www.Overgrow.com>www.Overgrow.com and Drew Foster, our prez,
videoed the march and you may watch it next Sunday, the 12th (happy
mothers day) at <http://www.access.tucson.org>www.access.tucson.org
THC TV, Channel 74, at 4pm Pacific Time.  Our (we make friends fast
here--i think it's the heat) electric chair patient led the March,
escorted by White Dog, Proprietor of the Tucson Hemp Clinic, and
Frank Rodriguez, a native Tucsonan pot advocate who hands out
Prescriptions for Cannabis and Cannabis Archives stickers wherever he
goes.  These two men rode their bicycles while, i'll call her Sara,
rode in her chair, and that may be the reason i never met up with the
lead once the March began.

This year the people from Phoenix really did show up and we had folks
from the southlands too.  Originally, we were to march 5 miles,
staying on the main drag where we had the largest captive audience,
people in cars stopped at red lights.  However, when asked if they
wanted to go all the way downtown, through the Hot Rod Show and then
to the Folk Festival, it was obvious we were in for the long haul.  A
good move too as the audiences at both events loved us.

As i said before, i never saw the front of the March once we left our
site of origin.  But today, at my community garden meeting, a member
who was singing at the Festival complimented our demeanor.  Upon
arriving at the stage, which was in front of another plaza we marched
to, the Marchers stopped en masse and waited politely while he
finished his song.  And because of our respect for others, Eb sang a
song for us.  Brewer and Shipley's "Commie Blues" . . . . What a
bunch.

By the time we regrouped at the next music fest across the street,
anarchy was setting in.  90 degree heat and  the rally just a few
blocks away sent some marchers directly to the restaurant/club, The
Oasis Eatery, but the majority did the deed and marched all the way
back, which added more than 2 more miles to the march.  Those of us
who did, happened upon the George Soros and John Sperling initiative
sign up people and while one marcher deejayed in a record store at
least 70 people signed the petition. We will have another vote in
November and we will tell them for the THIRD TIME to leave us alone
and end this insanity.

As expected, the entire group did not come to the rally but that was
all well and good as 50 of us descended upon the restaurant at once
and overwhelmed the staff for dinner.  People came and went all
evening.  We began the Rally at 7pm.  Music and speakers lasted until
midnite, at least, that's when i left and the main attraction, Top
Dead Center, a Dead cover band (you'll swear it's the real thing when
you hear these guys) was still playing.  Mono Coco, Max Doobage,
Brillo, Absolute Fucking Saints also added to the sounds and Bob
Bushkin, Libertarian/Hemp Expert, Kimberly Swanson, Libertarian
for AZ Senate running on a Legalise Marijuana platform, Drew Foster,
President, AZ4NORML, Patient, Timothy Cox, myself and a few other
participants spoke.

One of the vendors sold relief pot leaves on tile (from real leaves
she made a mold) --except that the lady that makes the tiles was not
the lady selling them.  Seems the artist had a run in with the law
and now she makes the tiles but cannot be seen.  There's more than
two ways to end the drug war.  Smart women.

A great mix of  people, and four soccer moms who are fed up and came
out to show their concern, aging hippies, (i guess i'm one), high
schoolers who don't want to be arrested for being NORML and Latino
libertarians joined up with patients to create the second largest
march i have seen in Tucson in 7 years.  Because of Cinco de Mayo;
the VolleyBall Over the Border Fences Annual Picnic in Naco; KFMA
Days, the Rock and Roll Budstupider (budweiser??duh) folks;  the
annual Folk Festival; and one of the largest May Day celebrations
West of the Rockies, AZ4NORML will hold the MMMarch 2003 on another
weekend, either before or after the set date.  We want the people and
if we give them another March, they will come.

Thanks:  High Times Magazine for running the MMMarch ads and for
letting me take all those High Times stickers from the NORML
Conference for our gift bags;  Cannabis Culture for sending us $$$
(take note High Times and let's see some green stuff next year, eh???
it is, after all, all about money--this is a challenge, not a
request) and stickers and cards; Dale G. at the Conference in San
Fran for that great series on the Myths of Marijuana which i copied
and inserted into our gift bag with the National NORML Brochure;  you
who shall remain nameless, our new friend at Kinko's,  thanks for the
discount; KXCI Community Radio and all of you whom my brain cannot
even begin to remember or document at this time.

Another Great Adventure 2002--Thank you Dana Beal, Cures Not Wars

Mad Mary, vice prez
AZ4NORML


_________

From: "dendecannabist" <dendecannabist@...>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 04:09:57 -0000
Subject: [SC MJ March] March for Marijuana Draws a Crowd City Hall


March for Marijuana Draws a Crowd City Hall
Sentinel Staff Report
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

Close to 100 people turned out for the Million Marijuana March
Saturday to protest the federal government's refusal to legalize
medical marijuana. The smell of marijuana marked their trail.

The march started at 4 p.m. at the Town Clock. After "the ritual" at
4:20 p.m. — which organizers called "international smoking time"
—
protesters headed down Pacific Garden Mall toward the Santa Cruz
Police Department, where they camped out for about a half hour.

City Hall was the next and final stop.

Hemp pins and tattoos, as well as bare chests and dreadlocks,
abounded. Participants criticized media coverage of pot issues and
encouraged people to attend training sessions on how to break the law
nonviolently to get one's message out.

"Free the people from this hypocrisy democracy, man!" shouted one
protester.

"I say smoke more pot!" was a more common refrain.

Outside Santa Cruz, similar marches occurred across the nation and
world, participants said. The "Liberation Day" event was organized by
the organization Cures Not Wars.

Complete Title: March for Marijuana Draws a Crowd City Hall, Police
Station

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
Published: May 5, 2002
Copyright: 2002 Santa Cruz Sentinel
Contact: editorial@...
Website: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/

Related Articles & Web Sites:

Cures Not Wars
http://www.cures-not-wars.org

Million Marijuana March 2002
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

CannabisNews - Cannabis Archives
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml

- ---

From: Bryan Gilstein <shelbyrose7@...>
X-Yahoo-Profile: shelbyrose7
Mailing-List: list SCMJMarch@yahoogroups.com; contact
SCMJMarch-owner@yahoogroups.com
Delivered-To: mailing list SCMJMarch@yahoogroups.com
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Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 23:09:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [SC MJ March] March for Marijuana Draws a Crowd City Hall

>Close to 100 people turned out for the Million Marijuana March
>Saturday to protest the federal government's refusal to legalize
>medical marijuana.

more like close to 400.  and it certainly wasn't just about medical.
The Sentinel probably didn't get to the scene until we were at City
Hall, by which time there were only 100-150 people left listening to
the ranting and ravings of pot pride.  after swarming at the
clocktower we paraded right down the center of Pacific Ave, stopping
traffic there and on Laurel on the way to the police station.  the
procession then left for city hall.

I think we were sucessful in getting out so many more people than
last year, but I do have the feeling that those who really belonged
there were at home.  I was glad that I got the 2004 intiative handed
out to so many (read it at
<http://www.youthfederation.com>www.youthfederation.com), but after
we started marching it turned into an amateurish display of "I say
smoke more pot!" instead of effectively advocating our position.

I guess you have to start somewhere, but next year I hope to focus
more on responsible use while placing a greater emphasis on the
intiative which will be nearing the end of its signature drive.
thanks to those of you who came out.

Bryan
___________

From: v belanger <contactverge@...>
Subject: Re: First Reports: Million Marijuana March 2002 Around the
World; Please send a Report on Yr MMM 2002 Event....
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Cc: contactverge@...
Status:

Hi Dana...
     This is Verge, up from Mendocino County, CA.  We
had a nice little rally in Ukiah, @ a hundred people
showed up to hear Roxanne Garcia (Prison Educational
Foundation), Richard Johnson (publisher of Mendocino
Country Independent), and Alan McFarland (who
prevailed in a significant court case in Sonoma County
regarding the amount of plants for  medical use: 99).
After the traditional smoke-out (standard), a group of
marchers left for a mile and a half hike to Low Gap
Park, followed @ 15 minutes later by a second group of
marchers, arriving at Low Gap park for a 2-8pm Pot
Luck Picnic.  The entertainment was excellent, with
music by HillBilly Bubba, Steven Bates, Lockjaw,
Changeling and Pagan Moon.  The food was excellent,
prepared by Jenny and Denise, and there were talks
given by Pebbles Trippet  and Diana Dearborn of the
Medical Marijuana Patients Union and Zenith Rose,
Poet.  The food as well as the entertainment was free,
with everyone getting a poster of the event.  There
were @ 300 people who showed for the picnic,and there
were no problems.  There was shuttle service for the
handicapped, and an abundance of goodies for everyone.
   It was a no alcohol/all ages event, and a good time
was had by all.  Everyone is looking forward to next
years MMM!!!
      Peace, Love and Happy Faces,
      Verge-----

____

From: Richard Alevizos <cholochido@...>
\Subject: Re: [mayday] MMM Eugene Oregon. Peace March against the Drug War

Just a quick message about the Eugene rally. I wanted
to thank everybody for all of your tireless efforts.
Dana, and all. I feel that this is the year we can
finally do it. We all need to stick together and push
on through.
The fact that Danbo was arrested is only testimony to
how affraid the establishment is. Heck, even the so
called liberal media wouldn't even mention me in their
stories, and I am running for Governor! So it is no
wonder that the city of Eugene would send six armed
SWAT cops to arrest one man. And they were swat cops,
they had the little logo on their uniforms, whether
they were officially acting as a SWAT team isn't know.
But the fact they were all wearing a SWAT logo says it
all. But what really makes me laugh is how they
totally underestimated the power of the people once
again. They thought because they arrested one man,
that that would stop our event. But as soon as they
took Danbo away, there were two others to jump into
his job at that time(setting up the stage) and they
event happened anyway. And this is what we must do
every time. If they take somebody there will be at
least two to replace that fallen activist.
So please everybody, get together as much support as
possible, and keep it rallied around us and maybe, in
November at least in Oregon we will see a new day, a
better future when I am elected.
Spread the word,
richforgov.com
Richard Alevizos
alevizos.richard@...
_____________


>  From: Steve Kubby <steve@...>
>  Organization: http://www.kubby.org/
>  Reply-To: Steve Kubby <steve@...>
>  Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:05:07 -0700
>  To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>  Subject: KUB: Pot TV:  Million Marijuana March / Tokers' Bowl
>
>  Pot TV News for MAY 6, 2002
>  Special Report: Million Marijuana March / Tokers' Bowl
>  http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-1311.html
>  Length: 10 minutes
>
>  (WARNING:  Today's Pot TV News contains graphic images of Life, Liberty
and
>  the Pursuit of Happiness.)
>
>  MARIJUANA ADVOCATES ROCK VANCOUVER
>  Across Canada, marijuana users stand up to be heard.
>
>  THOUSANDS MARCH IN S.F. FOR LEGALIZATION
>  San Francisco speaks out, while waiting for Federal crackdown.
>
>  N.Y. NARKS GO UNDERCOVER TO MAKE BUSTS
>  Despite confessions of N.Y. Mayor that he "smoked pot and enjoyed it,"
>  undercover NY City police arrested 148 for simple possession.
>
>  U.K. CROWDS DEMAND LEGALIZATION
>  Thousands of pro-cannabis demonstrators held peaceful marches and outdoor
>  parties, picnics and festivals in cities across Britain at the weekend to
>  campaign for legalisation of the drug.
>
>  CANADIAN SENATE WANTS DECRIM
>  Senate committee has recommended Canada decriminalize marijuana, saying
>  there is no scientific evidence that it leads to harder drugs.
>
>  TOKERS' BOWL REPORT:
>  Cheers erupted from the crowd, when the captain advised the 200 guests
that,
>  "We are safely beyond the reach of law enforcement and cannot be
boarded."
>
_______

From: Roger Christie <pakaloha@...>
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Status:



Hey there Dana,

Aloha from the rainforest.  We had a fine gathering on Saturday at Kolekole
Park north of Hilo, "Cannabis Liberation Day, a Celebration of the First
Amendment" was a success!  In the middle of a week of heavy rains we had a
great day of bands and speakers ... with zero rain.  We heard from To The
Max, Jesse Dawn and da kine with Bruddah Waltah, and No Clue.

Thanks for your inspiration and support.

Love,  Roger

The Hawai'i Cannabis Ministry
"We use cannabis religiously."
www.thc-ministry.org
(808) 961-0488

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From: "preston peet" <ptpeet@...>
To: <ibogaine@...>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:02:20 -0400
X-Priority: 3
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Pig-headed Arrests Mar NYC MMM 2002 Event
Status:

Vector6 wrote-> Is this better, worse or around average for what the police
do at MMM rallies? I don't think that's a stupid question. How bad was this
in relation to rallies of the last few years? .:vector:. <

To which I reply, they [police] were calmer, and arrested fewer this year in
NYC than in the previous at least 2 years, if not three, though I can't
remember the number for 1999 off the top of my head, so I could be wrong
about that one.
They've [police again] been [a hell of a lot] worse at NYC events than
anywhere else for the same amount of time at least.
Peace,
Preston


----- Original Message -----
From: <vector6@...>
To: <ibogaine@...>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Pig-headed Arrests Mar NYC MMM 2002 Event


>  Is this better, worse or around average for what the police do at MMM
rallies? I don't think that's a stupid question. How bad was this in
relation to rallies of the last few years? .:vector:. "preston peet" wrote >
>  Greetings and salutations all, > Here is my report for drugwar.com, with
a
number of photos, on the day's > pro-marijuana events, May 4th, 2002, in
NYC. > Enjoy, or get angry and vote, preferably for a third, fourth or fifth
>  party candidate. Whatever you do, please don't vote for an incumbent
who's
>  admitted to "youthful" illicit drug use but done nothing to end the War.
>
Peace, > Preston Peet > ptpeet@... > editor www.drugwar.com > >
http://www.drugwar.com/pmmmstealthyarrests.shtm > > "Cops don't smoke, but
they sure drink and drive." > Participants' chant during Million Marijuana
March, NYC, May 4, 2002. > > Pig-headed Arrests Mar NYC MMM 2002 Event > >
by Preston Peet- special to drugwar.com > (all photos unless otherwise noted
by author) > > May 5, 2002 > > The NYPD took a beautiful, sunny day, and
turned it into an arrest-fest > during Cures-Not-War's annual New York City
Million Marijuana March on > Saturday, May 4, 2002. Police arrested 148
peaceful protesters and rally > attendees, all for marijuana-related
offenses. Held in conjuncture with > nearly 200 other cities world-wide, the
NYC event was a relative success in > that arrest numbers were down compared
to recent years' events, and that > most attendees enjoyed the day, other
than for being too paranoid to enjoy a > smoke in the sun so as to avoid
arrest. > > Some marchers gathered at 11 AM near Washington Square Park for
a pre-march > ibogaine teach-in, then joined more protesters at Houston
Street and > Broadway for the march through downtown Manhattan along
Broadway to Battery > Park. Stretching for 3 blocks, the parade of marchers
carried banners and > signs, chanting, "No more fear, light it up here,"
"the mayor smokes pot and > he likes it a lot," and "father Bush and the CIA
brought crack onto the > streets today." The parade route down Broadway was
once again lined with > uniformed NYPD officers both on foot and on
scooters, while plainclothes > officers kept their eyes and noses peeled for
open civil disobedience. > snip- > > Read Complete Article and search the
photos to find yourself having fun in > the crowd, or bumming out under
arrest, at the above URL.


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To get on the poster for the 2003 Global March for Cannabis
Liberation, add yr city to the List, which right now consists of 71
cities:


Albuquerque
Amsterdam
Athens
Austin
Batesville/Oxford
Baton Rouge
Battle Creek
Berlin
Boone
Buffalo
Burlington
Charlotte
Chico
Christchurch
Colorado Springs
Columbus
Daingerfield
DesMoines
Detroit
Durban
Eugene
Flensburg
Flint
Ft Wayne
Ft. Worth
Garberville
Halifax
Hearst
Helsinki
Hilo
Houston
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Knoxville
Lansing
London
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Miami
Minneapolis
Missoula
Montpelier
Montreal
New Orleans
New Paltz
New York
Nimbin
Nuernberg
Oberlin
Oslo
Paducah
Paris
Portland
Raleigh
Santa Clara
Seminole
Sioux City
St. Louis
Stuart
Tel Aviv
Toronto
Tokyo
Traverse City
Trondheim
Tucson
Turku
Ukiah
Vancouver
Washington, D.C.
Wellington
Winnepeg


We have a prototype, "Smoke and Expand," but we are still taking
submissions for our final design--and we are establishing a VIRTUAL
POSTER GALLERY to give every city who can print locally a choice.
- ----
From: Toni Keane <taporter84@...>
Subject: Next year's Million Marijuana March
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Status:

Dana,
    I was wondering if you had a date set for next years
march yet?  We got a great core group that showed up
for this year's DC march and we want to start early to
make it really a big march next year.  Please post my
contact info for the DC March for 2003.  People can
contact me at taporter84@... or they can go to
http://violate_wave.tripod.com/MMM.html.  Please do
not put Fourth of July Committee's contact info for
the DC march as they do not respond to e-mails and
their supposed event this year did not even take
place.  I want to make this a big event in DC next
year and have some people ready to help.  Just let us
know the date as soon as it is set.  Thanks.
Toni
DC MMM Coordinator
_______

From: UserGar4510@...
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 16:07:39 EDT
Subject: Million marijuana march


THis stuff should go global and on to t.v. and movies and
everything.Me personally, I would bring a war and  I would die for my
right to smoke. I'd rather die young and stoned than old and bored.
The marijuana revolution should start today. Until the end of
corruption. There's too much injustice, too many people in jail for
nothing at all. Since when can a plant be used as a weapon. I've
never heard in the news of someone using bud to kill someone. Only
have I heard is that the pigs(police) destroy families, lifes,
freedom, and everything that symbolizes everything. All because they
want to get paid. If it were for me, I'd go into outer space where
there is no law. I'm not afraid of dying so the no law doesn't
concern me at all. LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

________________________

----end of Dana Beal compilation message----

------------------

-----MMM Cannabis 2002 press release-----

200+ cities worldwide and counting!!!
Cannabis Liberation Day. May 4 2002.
4th annual Million Marijuana March (MMM).
Against the global drug war.
No Global Police State.
Free the Prisoners of Drug War.

*MMM 2002 EVENT NAVIGATOR.
Cannabis Liberation Day. It lists the
names of nearly all of the MMM cities
worldwide on one page. In alphabetical
order. With the state and country names
also. Click any city in the alphabetical list to
see the contact and rally info for that city:
This is a great new web page:
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/navigator.php

*The main page for the continually-updated,
clickable, all-on-one-page, alphabetical city
list for MMM 2002, Cannabis Liberation Day,
is at the page here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2002.htm   and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2002.htm   and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2002.htm

cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com  is an email address for sending in MMM
reports, photos, web pages, info, etc.. Anybody can use this address. There
is no need to subscribe to anything first. Messages sent to this email
address will end up in the public archive at this MMM Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction

Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and to Cannabis News at
submissions@... where they will be posted at:
http://www.cannabisnews.com

Freddie Freak (of Norway) has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally
reports worldwide:
http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/PottNytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/mmm2002_afte\
rmarch__05_2002.htm


*So does schmoo.co.uk
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/world.htm

*FoM of Cannabis News has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally reports:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

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To: mayday@yahoogroups.com

From: "schmoo" <info@...>

Subject: re:london march pictures

Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 02:14:05 +0100

There are few pictures of the london march & festival at
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/lonmay4.htm

------end of forwarded message----

The link above is for a web page of photos. On that page there is another link
which is for a page with  far more London MMM  photo links (great ones), and
some reports. That great page is attached to this email. It will already be
visible in some people's  email, and in some list archives.

  If not,  just click the link below to open up that web  page.  There have
probably been even more photo links added there. It looks like almost anybody
can add photos.
http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET1199#pix


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To: mayday@yahoogroups.com

From: "schmoo" <info@...>

Subject: re:london march pictures

Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 02:14:05 +0100

There are few pictures of the london march & festival at
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/lonmay4.htm

------end of forwarded message----

The link above is for a web page of photos. On that page there is another link
which is for a page with  far more London MMM  photo links (great ones), and
some reports. That great page is attached to this email. It will already be
visible in some people's  email, and in some list archives.

  If not,  just click the link below to open up that web  page.  There have
probably been even more photo links added there. It looks like almost anybody
can add photos.
http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET1199#pix

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From: Pedro Dantas - Reporter - Globo On <pedrodantas@...>
To: "'cnw@...'" <cnw@...>
Subject: Milion Marijuana March in Brazil
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:29:06 -0300


Dears Cures-Not-Wars members,

My name is Pedro Dantas. I'm a brazilian reporter from a national newspaper
called O Globo. I'm covering  the first Milion Marijuana March that occured
in Rio de Janeiro. Rio police departament provided a strong security scheme
to watch the event that reunited over 500 people. Now, the police announced
that intend identify and prossecute the leaderships of the manifestation. I
want to know the position of someone from the Cures-Not Wars direction about
this retaliation and what do you intend to do about that.

Please answer to : pedrodantas@...

Thanks,

Pedro Dantas- O Globo 55 21 2534 5553 // 55 21 99597750

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Suppressed News
Global Cannabis Liberation actions


As you might know already, this weekend was designated
for Global Cannabis Liberation  Mobilizations around
the world. There were events such as protests,
rallies, forums, smoke-ins, and street- fests in about
200 locations, all over the planet! Many thousands of
people are involved in making these events into a
reality.

The event, also known as MMM (Million Marijuana March)
has been evolving for decades, but it’s only been the
last few years that it has grown in scope to being
global -wide. It tends to fall on the weekend closest
to Mayday (no coincidence there!), and it is the only
other independent anti-authoritarian movement of
global depth with any sense of organization and the
ability to mobilize people, in addition to the
Anti-globalization Movement.

For now, MMM is one of the top features at New York
City Indymedia and Italy  Indymedia.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/  and
http://italy.indymedia.org/
There is a rough translation of the Italy feature
here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41080


There were many arrests of protestors, all of whom
were involved in totally peaceful, non-violent
activities, though in comparison to the number of
participants globally, the arrests were very few.  The
news and reports from the weekend events are coming in
right now. It usually takes one or two days to compile
them into a meaningful whole. For those interested in
more about this campaign, please see:
Million Marijuana March 2002
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

Also, one might read the reports coming in, here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/

Or, subscribe to receive all the news and updates
here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mayday/

In the Eastern Mediterranean part of the world, where
there are several million Friends of Cannabis, the
event was observed in the total secrecy of entirely
underground conditions, given that Friends of Cannabis
often face brutal and near- total destruction of
livelihood if exposed to the punitive action of the
established powers in our region’s countries.

This global movement aims at restoring the rights of
people who need cannabis for medical reasons to have
it without obstacles, the rights of people who use
cannabis for religious purposes in prayer to have it
without obstacles, and the right of people who choose
to use cannabis for recreational reasons, to use it
without obstacles. The movement is aimed at saving the
lives of ill people, and restoring the religious
rights of oppressed native religions all over the
world, and ensuring that adults who are able to use
this harmless herb responsibly for their own reasons
should not be penalized by a vengeful system of
prohibition. Prohibition forces people to seek poisons
such as alcohol, psychiatric drugs, or street- drugs
as "alternatives" to cannabis, with a terrible impact
on the health of the individual and the community.
Prohibition also maintains a lucrative system of
organized crime which is operated and controlled by
only the most successful criminals, in collusion with
the most corrupt members of the law-enforcement,
legislative, and administrative branches of our
governments.

Conditions of democracy have not yet evolved to the
point that simple, unprivileged citizens of our
countries can enjoy protection of the Right to
Expression or the Right to Assemble in the name of
this cause, and so our efforts remain mostly hidden,
protected by  secrecy and  surrounded by dangers.

Petros
http://PetrosEvdokas.cjb.net
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Hey Dana and Brian. I just saw this email today in my inbox. It may have just
arrived overnight or I could have missed it in my inbox, though I don't believe
so.

-----Forwarded email begins---------

To: info@...

From: "schmoo" <info@...>

Subject: Cannabis Action UK Sat 4th May: events & contacts.

CC: tents444@...

Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:09:28 +0100


Dear ecoman - please note new UK info for list you have been putting out:
...................

GLOBAL * CANNABIS * ACTION * Sat  May 4th 2002. Please forward to anyone
you think might be interested.

This years 'Liberation Day' global cannabis action on Sat May 4th 2002
includes confirmed events in 193 cites worldwide.

IN BRITAIN: cannabis festivals, marches or events are happening in LONDON,
MANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM on Sat 4th May, in HULL on Sun 5th May, and in
EDINBURGH on Mon 6th May.  Latest details are given below. Updates @
http://www.cannabiscoalition.org

UK CANNABIS ACTION EVENT LISTINGS May 2002: part of a global cannabis
action in 189 cities.

* LONDON: Sat May 4th - The 4th Annual Cannabis March and Festival: A
Carnival Style March meets 12 noon (sharp) at KENNINGTON PARK (Oval Tube)
going to the Free Cannabis Festival at BROCKWELL PARK, Brixton. Bring
costume, banners, drums, laughter. FREE CANNABIS FESTIVAL includes live
stages, marquees and sound system venues, plus Speakers Tent, Hemp Expo
Marquee, Medical Marijuana Tent, Kids Area with Swingboats, Stalls, Hemp
Food, Hemp Beer, Samba Band, Floats and more ...

LONDON FESTIVAL LINE UP:

* MAIN STAGE - The Headmix Collective, Momo, The Trojans, Charged, Maximum
Roach, Deknology plus very special guests to be announced.
* LIVE HIP HOP TENT - Homegrown, Usual Suspects featuring Leonardo, Mud
Family & Skinny Man , Sun Records featuring Deftex DJís, Deknology, Dekfx,
Asetate Records, TMS Crew.
* BRIXTON STAGE - live sounds from Hoover Pitman, Frightnight, The Fish
Brothers, Assi Rose, Ex Cathedra, Dubmerge, Headjam plus more on the day.
* ACCESS ALL AREAS DANCE MARQUEE - from the home of London's techno
underground with Aaron Liberator, Zebedee, Bruiser, Karl & Geezer live,
DAVE The Drummer live, Kris K, Edit live, Gizelle.
* THE PURPLE TURTLE MARQUEE - live bands and hard house madness later.
* SOUND SYSTEM VENUES -  1. DVant - Ska, breaks, house mish mash. 2.
Conscious dub and roots - RDK Mannaseh and Negusa Nagast. 3. BASS Brighton
Alliance of Sound Systems - the best of the Brighton underground. 4.  Femi9
Product - gurly beatz of a garage and d 'n' b nature. 5. Squall - funky
house, latin, breaks and more from the Squall posse. 6. Aardvark and Pirate
TV - team up for a visual sonic meltdown. 7. chimaera sound system -
progressive house to trance warming up for a summer outdoors. 8.  Speakeasy
Collective - folk to punk to funk to soul with sofas and table footy. 9.
SLS - random collective of South London anarchists providing chill out,
info and hot drinks.
* OTHER VENUES: Speakers Tent, Hemp Expo Marquee, Medical Marijuana Tent,
Kids Area with Swingboats, Stalls,  plus Hemp Food, Hemp Beer, Samba Band,
Floats and more.
* TRANSPORT DETAILS: MARCH meets 12 noon (sharp) at Kennington Park, Oval
Tube, Northern Line. FESTIVAL is at Brockwell Park, Brixton, Brixton Tube,
Victoria Line or Herne Hill Thameslink. * CONTACTS: Cannabis March &
Festival Office. (020 7737 3044). Info line: (020 7267 8320). email:
Ganjadaysounds@... STALLS: (0117 963 8815). Stewards:
marchstewards@...  More info & updates:
http://www.cannabiscoalition.org
......................

* MANCHESTER Cannabis March, Sat 4th May 2002.  Assemble 12 noon @
Whitworth Park, Oxford Road, Manchester 14. Opp Royal Infirmary. 3 mile
march around manchester city centre followed by an After Event at the
Contact Theatre, off Oxford Road, behind Academy, from 3 pm-late. Stalls,
music, bar and evening events. * CONTACT: Cannabis Coalition (Manchester),
57 Church Street, Smithfield Buildings, Manchester, M4. (0161 834 1130).
......................

* BIRMINGHAM 1st May: 'Grow More Weed Campaign' social & fundraiser @ Old
Railway Pub,  Curzon St, Digbeth (0121 3336434) next door to Mellinium
point,from 8pm. Live Band: Dub Rokkaz (Ent £3). * SAT MAY 4TH: Cannabis
Picnic @ Cannon Hill Park, off Pershaw Road, next to Edgbaston Cricket
Ground. * CONTACT: Grow More Weed Campaign (Mark Badger), PO Box 9121,
Birmingham B138AU. (01212561303). (m: 07929217699). Fax: 0121 256 1302.
email: growmoreweed@... .
......................

* HULL (Sun May 5th)SUNDAY MAY 5TH.  March leaves Queens Gardens (circle)
at 1.00PM to Pearson Park for a Smokybears picnic with live music/sound
system. * CONTACT: CwagnerLCA@... (01482 494789).
......................

* EDINBURGH (Mon May 6th) Contact: Linda Hendry
linda@... (0131 667-6488). Meet @ The Mound, Princes
St, 1pm to 3pm. Our local holiday monday. Stall, petition, banners and
hopefully loads of cc:newzs.

* WORLDWIDE listings of 189 cities @ http://www.schmoo.co.uk/world.htm  &
http://www.cures-not-wars.org  also after reports.  Uk listings & updates @
http://www.cannabiscoalition.org

* Free Colin Davis Petition:
http://www.ethical-business.com/petitions.asp?pet_id=244
* The THC Club: http://www.schmoo.co.uk/thclub.htm

Cannabis Coalition Uk, PO Box 2243, London W1A 1YF. (0207 637 7467). Fax:
0870 054 8646. info@.... http://www.cannabiscoalition.org

Apologies for any cross postings. To be removed from this list please
email: remove@... with the word 'Remove' in the subject header.



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----Forwarded message begins---------

From: "Dana Beal" dana@...

Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:29:23 -0700

Subject: [mayday] First Reports: Million Marijuana March 2002 Around the World;
Please send a Report on Yr MMM 2002 Event....

To: greenpartydrugsgroup@...

CC: serena.mail@...,  jc0_66@..., "Irena"
<irena.krzan@...>, "cappleby3014" <cappleby3014@...>,
"Matthew Jorn" <matthewjorn@...>, Newagecitizen@..., "Xpu100"
<hri100@...>, smacdonald@..., mjmarch@...,
info@...,  marijuanamarch@..., hempSA@...,
has.cornelissen@..., gfarid@..., inorml@...,
mohemp@..., "Chris Conrad" <chris@...>, iowanorml@...,
duncaneddy@..., BLocman420@..., nfn@...,
RoadsEnd@..., "Chris Wright" <TCW@...>,
rastapeace@..., pdxnorml@..., hempSA@...,
smuuthc11@..., acididea@..., anna_ganja@...,
andyganja2001@..., "Melody Karr" <fiddlefoot420@...>, "Howie
Hempalot" <torml@...>, fearless_420@..., mmm@...,
melacs42x60@..., rebelart@..., pcornwell@...,
martin@..., aragorn@..., CAMPNC@...,
Blocpot@..., DennyLane@..., linda@...,
rappa@..., arsec@..., "Hanfparaden Center Berlin"
<hanfparade@...>, "alun" <webbooks@...>, amec@...,
mayday@yahoogroups.com, "kathy kennedy" <prohibitionx@...>,
freddiefreak@..., sokrates@..., restore@...,
rastapeace@..., "justin ballot" <j_thang@...>, Hempsters@...,
texasm5@..., "Carl Olsen" <carl@...>,
theherbalist@..., "Colo. Hemp Init. Project"
<cohip@...>, "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer@...>, "helmut
holtzheimer" <movemus@...>, "ben masel" <bmasel@...>,
phillty2@..., "Dave Toaff" <davetoaff@...>, mmm@...,
"Angela Goodhope" <sisterearth420@...>,
Usersvoice.jmt@...,  "Michael Palmieri" <forml_2000@...>,
info@..., PROBER13@..., StewMO1941@..., rmelamed@...,
chris@..., pakaloha@..., "M. Werkhausen"
<werkhausen@...>, chairman@..., bloom@..., "pdr"
<pdr@...>, linkov@..., aksh1@..., fdb@...,
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blair@..., "Jay Statzer" <jstatzer@...>,  phillty2@...,
encimer@..., Skywolf@..., CFFHS@..., al@...,
globalpeas@..., emanuel@...,  dangssdp@...,
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2001@..., Boris@..., miriamwhite420@...,
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cdkimball@..., btm42@..., amduscias@...,
earthfirstswt@..., theherbalist@..., wachtel@...,
forml420@..., "Michela Gesualdo" <mgesuald@ilmanifesto>,
terryparkerjr@..., fjhc@hotmail, "Razor" <rzr@...>, "Enrico
Fletzer" <enricofletzer@...>, legalise@..., "Nelg Nella"
<spacehippie@...>, phillyweed420@...,
info@...,  "Peter Bluhm" <peterbluhm2001@...>, "Joe Wein"
<joewein@...>, "Bud Spliff" <normalpotluck2002@...>,
info@..., OCannabisSociety@..., escandonavia@...,
jipiando@..., leoparda_azul@..., faenadub@...,
ultra_plus_estrella@..., helmcke@..., fazzz_101@...,
tajobasezootsuit@..., corruption@...,
mijessic@..., zelita_martin@...,
mdemonte@..., m_bandida@..., malcomska@...,
foroalici@..., taudarknes@...,  reggata_tour@...,
"Catherine Jones" <mmmfriend@...>, writch@...

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Verizon DSL has been on the fritz since Friday. Make sure you send us
a report on your event, so I can post it when CALYX starts working
again.

******!!! May 4, 2002 Cannabis Liberation Day: Updates,  Reports!!!******

From: Blair Anderson <blair@...>
Reply-To: blair@...
Organization: Techno Junk and Grey Matter  & Mild Green Initiative
mildgreens.com
X-Accept-Language: en
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Subject: Christchurch NZ MMM event,
Status:

About 300 assembled Christchurch's Cathedral Square at High
Noon.. declaring it "prohibition free...." shared in a smoke
up after a hundred or so joints of el promo were cast among
the masses. It must have been good, the Deputy leader of the
Aotearoa legalise Cannabis party was seen to have paled
somewhat afterwards, and many others expressed delight as to
its quality..

There was some great speeches.. some laid back talent,
wonderful banners and pretty much everyone left with a MMM
flyer, and heaps of other "freeware" from NORML and the
ALCP.

The Police are to be thanked for their non presence. They
seem to have honoured the advice given by the 1998 NZ House
of Representatives Health Select Committee reporting that
advocates of reform be left alone.

Clearly, the prohibited act of smoking a J anytime is an act
of revolution and defiance.

To the other 50,000 odd Christchurch smokers of the herbal
smoking products, you were well represented today.  We were
joined by a lot of overseas friends this year,  one
enlightened man from Amsterdam pointing to Starbucks said it
would make a perfect cafe.....

Absolutely!

Photos etc to follow.

see Christchurch NZ MayDay- JayDay report in "The Citizen"
newspaper,
http://www.thecitizen.co.nz/050602/index05.htm

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Subject: [mayday] Dunedin NZ Pot smoked in Octagon during protest


MONDAY, 06 MAY 2002


Pot smoked in Octagon during protest
06 MAY 2002 / By JANE SMITH

About 200 people sat smoking cannabis in the Octagon on
Saturday to mark the annual J-Day protest against the
prohibition of cannabis.

J-Day stands for Joint Day.

National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML) representative Duncan Eddy said the gathering was to
show opposition to cannabis prohibition, support for
rational cannabis laws and displeasure at the length of time
it was taking the select committee reviewing cannabis laws
to publish its recommendations.

Several speakers addressed the crowd, postcards were given
out to be sent to MPs and people were encouraged to get on
the electoral roll, then use their vote to support
cannabis law reform.

"The main thing is coming together to indulge in an act of
civil disobedience in response to an unjust law," Mr Eddy
said.

"I think the government needs a really clear message from
the people that we are sick of being treated this way."

While no police officers came along to break up the protest,
the protesters were eventually forced to move along by
strong winds.

see
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/print/0,1103,1190379a3845,FF.html



sig.   Blair Anderson
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From: "Max Stone" <aclrm@...>
Subject: MMM Report Nimbin Australia

webgreetings

It is as impossible to guesstimate the size of the roll up for the 2002
Nimbin MMMMarch as it is to guesstimate the total inhalance of cannabis
during the MardiGrass Protestival, but every number I have heard so far is
in excess of 4 and 20 thousand cannabists! As usual in Nimbin, we din't
march in a straight line, in fact, truth be told, we din't actually march at
all, not much point even trying really, I mean even attempting to marshal
the entire MardiGrass crowd to march from point A - via point B -to point C
would be harder than herding 420 black cats at midnight and so, we decided
to ask the entire crowd (via the loud speakers) to take one step forward,
then three steps back, two steps forward and then one step back (a little
semi-dance step thing we call the 'real pace' of cannabis law reform) which
of course resulted in as much confusion as marshalling a march or changing
an illogical law, point is that thousands upon thousands of people come
together every year in Nimbin for exactly the same reason. To call for an
End to Cannabis Prohibition.

http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/mardigrass2002/mmmarch.html

words assembled by Max Stone,
the non official smokesperson from
the extreme edge of radical fringe of the
Australian Cannabis Law Reform Movement
http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/aclrm
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From:  eco man <tents444@y...>
Date:  Sun May 5, 2002  4:47 pm
Subject:  Fwd: Darwin Australia MMM report, web page.

Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 07:27:50 -0700 (PDT)

From: "mick lambe PARIAH" <pariahnt@y...>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Darwin Australia is another MMM city.
To: "eco man" <tents444@y...>

eco man

Our report. Could you forward it to the appropriate
people?

http://napnt.tripod.com/pages/Peoples-Embassy.a.htm

Thanks bro.
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From: "Marcus \(Home\)" <mt3825@...>
To: <cnw@...>
Subject: March in Cape Town - 4 May 2002
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 20:15:02 +0200
X-Priority: 3
Status:

Madams and Sirs

This is not an official report. By the way, the poster at my
favourite cafe had Johannesburg and Durban listed but not Cape Town.
In any case, I attended. So did about a hundred other good people of
Cape Town, mostly Rasta's.

I don't smoke but I support the call for decriminalisation. Enough of
my friends smoke to know that they are healthy, normal and have
values; body, mind and spirit are OK. (Some of my non-smoking friends
could learn from the smokers.)

So why did  I attend? Well, I am not an abused women and I oppose
woman abuse; I am not an aids sufferer and I support their right to
medication and so on ...

I am a divorced, 50 year old, white male. That just in case you
wonder about me.

Kind thoughts

Marcus
082 674 2299
Cape Town
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Subj: Czech Republic: Wire: Thousand Gather To Support Legalization

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n856.a07.html
Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Associated Press (Wire)
Copyright: 2002 Associated Press

THOUSAND GATHER TO SUPPORT LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - About 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a central
Prague park to support the legalization of marijuana.

Michal Polak, spokesman for the rally's organizers, said they sought a change
in Czech legislation that would put marijuana on a par with alcohol and
tobacco. Now, illegal possession and distribution of narcotics is punishable by
up to 15 years in jail.

Polak said the rally participants did not want to encourage people to consume
or distribute drugs, but were expressing criticism of the Czech penal code,
which does not distinguish between hard and so-called "soft" drugs.

"To grow the plant should not be prohibited by law," Polak said.

In 2000, an estimated 25 tons of cannabis was consumed in the Czech Republic,
according to an estimate by the national Statistical Institute.Similar
gatherings took place in two other Czech cities, Plzen and Brno, Polak said.

Brno contact person changes to:

Ivan Stanoev
Chladkova 3
Brno 616 00
isi@...
+420605542401

Another Czech Republic (or "CZ", but not "CREP" - aghhrrrrr!!!) city
with it own MMM-synchronized "tribe-gathering" is Pilsen - yes, where
Pilsner beer comes from - best served chilled with a joint ;-),
aprox. 200000 inhabitants. Partialy well-known city name, thanks to
beer, I guess...

Contact person for Pilsen:

Metod (it's nickname, I don't know real name)
exist@...
www.exist.cz
+420732159826

I was also contacted by marijuana activists from Slovakia (city
Bratislava) and Slovenia (city Ljubljana), which want to join MMM
with their own happenings. I told them to contact you if they want to
be listed...

This year's rally in Prague was fantastic - definitely over 2000
people, another hunderds sitting and laying on grass in nearby park.
Horse-mounted policemen (and sexy policewomen, just like in Hair
movie ;-) passing by. Group of neonazis who wanted to attack our
gathering arrested by police. Only fine we paid so far was 1000 CZK
(30 USD ;-) for expired technical certificate of one of our transport
vans ;-)
I will send full report later, and I will also publish it in "In
English" section of www.legalizace.cz - including photo galleries,
etc. But later.

No doubt we WILL manage to redirect bunch of marijuana and other
soft-drug tourists from Amsterdam to Prague - no matter what Prague
city hall thinks about it ;-) I want my own Amsterdam here, without
having to move outside Prague. Bad luck tat we cannot dig any canals
here - we have too many hills around...

We almost managed to form "great coalition" here in Prague, but
finally the most important pro-marijuana and pro-harm-reduction
activists and journalists canceled their participation on MMM because
of partial ban of event from the side of city hall... we had
excellent media coverage, eg. mentioning girl with multiple sclerosis
who spoke on the event about marijuana being only medicine which
works for her, etc.

Thanks for the posters. This year, we are not yet able to send any
financial support for poster printing, but as soon as we manage to
turn MMM into fully permitted and legal street festival tolerated by
city hall (which is not impossible, I hope), we may start sending
posters the second direction over the ocean ;-))) All people liked it
- it's fund, it has lot of energy, it's safe, it is "anti" something,
but not aggressive...

--
Michael "xChaos" Polak
+420 603 872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104
http://www.arachne.cz (Arachne Labs homepage)
http://www.mp3records.cz (100% legal and free music)
http://www.legalizace.cz (Stop drug war & release victims !)
http://www.vojna.cz (Petice za zruseni vojny i civilni sluzby)
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From: "Hanfparade e.V." <info@...>
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Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
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To: dana@..., martin@...
Subject: Berlin MMM feedback
X-Sender: 520069876825-0001@...
Status:

Hi Dana,

you'll surely get a lot of Emails these days so I'll keep it short:
about 200 participants and about 2000 temporary visitors who just
stoped  for watching a bit of the event. We had 6 politcal speakers
from differnet organisations and the band "The Postmen". No problems
with police. Peacefull. Smoking...

At 1 p.m. the rally started at Oranienplatz, a big red bus was the
sign of the rally that played pro hemp music and carried speakers who
held speeches during the rally. It went with about 100 participants
through the middle of town to get to the Alexanderplatz where we had
some info stands, hemp food dishes, live-music, speeches and some
more people. That was around 2 p.m. and the program ran untill 5 p.m.
Than we had to clean up the public area and moved to the hemp museum
for the MMM-Chillout Party.

We're in the middle of it. Satisfied because we never had this much
people for a MMM event before.

Best wishes from Berlin,
Martin Muencheberg

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From: "freddie" <freddiefreak@...>
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Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 02:44:00 +0200
Subject: [mayday] Aftermarch
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Status:

Hi people,
I got some of the reports from mmm2002 here:
<http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/PottNytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/m
mm2002_aftermarch__05_2002.htm>http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/Pott
Nytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/mmm2002_aftermarch__05_2002.htm<http://ww
w.stuff.co.nz/inl/print/0,1103,1190379a3845,FF.html>

freddie
<http://www.freddiefreak.com>www.freddiefreak.com
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Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Reuters (Wire)
Copyright: 2002 Reuters Limited

THOUSANDS MARCH IN BRITAIN FOR LEGAL CANNABIS

Thousands of pro-cannabis demonstrators held peaceful marches in
Britain's largest cities on Saturday before letting their hair down at
a series of outdoor parties, picnics and festivals.

The marches in London, Manchester and Birmingham to push for the
legalisation of cannabis were part of almost 200 similar events
planned around the world this weekend under the name of the "Million
Marijuana March."

"The march is to protest for legalisation and the festival is a
celebration of cannabis," said Shane Collins, licensee for the
Cannabis Carnival in Brixton, south London.

Collins estimated the British cannabis trade to be worth six billion
pounds a year, adding it provided thousands of Britons with jobs.

"We want to put the profits from that into where they are needed --
youth services and residential rehab," he told the BBC.

A police spokeswoman said they did not have a estimate of crowd
numbers but said the marches were trouble free and the crowds had
dispersed by early evening.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n859.a08.html
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Pubdate: Mon, 06 May 2002
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175
Author: Jamie Wilson
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?207 (Cannabis - United Kingdom)

THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS HAVE A SPLIFFING TIME

Thousands of pro-cannabis demonstrators held peaceful marches and outdoor
parties, picnics and festivals in cities across Britain at the weekend to
campaign for legalisation of the drug. The marches in London, Manchester and
Birmingham, were part of almost 200 similar events planned around the world
this weekend billed as the Million Marijuana March.

"The march is to protest for legalisation and the festival is a celebration
of cannabis," said Shane Collins, licensee for the Cannabis Carnival in
Brixton, south London, on Saturday, which had begun with a carnival style
march from Kenning ton Park. "Because cannabis has been downgraded to a
class C drug, a lot of people think it's now legal. It is not. If we want to
get rid of the problems of prohibition we have to get rid of prohibition
100%."

Police in Brixton have been experimenting with a "softly softly" approach to
cannabis, pioneered by controversial police commander Brian Paddick, who is
being investigated by the police complaints authority over allegations he
regularly smoked the drug.

Johnjo Nally, owner of Dr Herman's Hemp Shop and organiser of the Manchester
march, said: "The event was just brilliant. The police were amazing. The day
passed off really peacefully."

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n864.a07.html
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Manchester: Hundreds march for cannabis legalisation

Fewer people joined the march than had been expected

More than 600 people have taken part in a march in Manchester to
support the legalisation of cannabis.

The event on Saturday was designed to mark World Cannabis Action Day
and was mirrored around the
world, billed as the Million Marijuana March.

Police presence was strong partly because many more people had been
expected to join the event.

They said that if they saw protesters smoking the drug they would not
arrest them, but would instead quietly ask them to stop.

Cannabis 'industry'

The march held up traffic in the city centre but there was no trouble
or arrests.

The protesters converged on Whitworth Park, where there was music and
entertainment.

Many people were there to support Colin Davies, the Stockport
cannabis cafe owner who is currently on
remand in prison.

Jonjo Nally, of the Manchester Cannabis Coalition, said they also
wanted to draw attention to the other uses of cannabis, including for
medicine and hemp clothing.

"We want to show that there is an industry that can be born from
this," he said.

Marches are expected to take place in more than 30 other countries
including the US, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany,
Switzerland and France.

Lambeth experiment

A similar march was held in the London borough of Lambeth, where
police have been pioneering a "softly,
softly" approach to cannabis.

Those found with small amounts of cannabis may be warned and have
their drug confiscated, but they will
not face arrest.

The government has recently said it was "minded" to downgrade
cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug.

If it did so, users could be free to smoke it in public without fear of arrest.

But the Million Marijuana March organisers say this would not be enough.

Its website says: "The recent progress towards de facto
decriminalisation in Britain is to be welcomed but is clearly not the
full solution.

"Only a complete, total lifting of prohibition will do. Anything less
is simply a half-way house which fails to protect the public."

Manchester UK rally.
The BBC's Lucy Atherton
"The event passed off peacefully"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/video/_1968119_cannabis18_atherton_vi.ram

Manchester Cannabis Coalition Jonjo Nally
"I have been really overwhelmed by the amount of support"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/video/_1968119_march12_nally_vi.ram

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Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Edinburgh Evening News (UK)
Copyright: 2002 The Scotsman Publications Ltd
Contact: lettersen@...
Website: http://www.edinburghnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1626

PRO-CANNABIS ACTIVISTS HIT CITY'S STREETS

PRO-CANNABIS campaigners are to take to the streets in Edinburgh in a bid
to raise awareness to legalise the drug.

Members of Legalise Cannabis Campaign Scotland will be petitioning on
Princes Street to seek more support on Monday.

Linda Hendry, LCCS spokeswoman, said: "We want to raise awareness in the
fight to legalise cannabis because the present proposal to make it a C
class drug does not mean it is legal.

"The penalties would only be halved if the law was changed to make it a C
class drug."

Their plans come as thousands of people were today expected to march in
various cities across the UK to mark Cannabis Liberation Day.

The Million Marijuana March is a worldwide event involving people taking to
the streets in nearly 200 cities across the globe.

Marches were due to take place in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool.

Across the world marches are taking place in more than 30 countries
including the US, New Zealand, Canada, and the Netherlands.
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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n861.a02.html

From: "Mara Escudero" <mescuder@...>
To: Adrián De Rosa <tomateadr@...>
Subject: RV: Diario Rosario 12 - 5/5/02-MMM
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 00:57:21 -0300
X-Priority: 3
Status:


MARCHA POR LA LEGALIZACION DE LA MARIHUANA

Para la cura y otras yerbas

Por primera vez, Rosario adhirió a la Million Marihuana March que se
realiza en 198 ciudades de todo el mundo. Más de un centenar de
personas coreó la consigna "Cura sí, guerra no".

Por Sonia Tessa



Los manifestantes transitaron la peatonal con toda tranquilidad,
entre las mesas de los bares. Consideraron el acto como "un hito en
la historia de la despenalización del consumo".

    Las personas que llegaron ayer al mediodía hasta la plaza
Montenegro eran conscientes de estar abriendo un camino. Con espíritu
de pioneros, coreaban la consigna "Cura sí, guerra no", con la que
Rosario se sumó este año a las casi 200 ciudades de todo el mundo que
realizan la Million Marihuana March. Por lo pronto, fueron más de un
centenar los que recorrieron el centro, atravesando no sólo las mesas
de los bares de la peatonal, sino también las miradas de desconcierto
de los habitantes de una ciudad que esta semana vivió un debate
impensado hace algunos años. "El balance es muy positivo, se pudo
instalar la discusión sobre la despenalización del consumo de
marihuana para uso personal, y la necesidad de derogar el artículo 14
de la ley 23.737, de drogas", consideró Silvia Inchaurraga,
presidenta de la Asociación de Reducción de Daños de la Argentina
(Arda).

    La marcha salió de Plaza Pringles, donde se habían congregado todos
los medios no sólo de la ciudad, sino también de circulación
nacional. "Si alguien esperaba una noticia sensacionalista, se quedó
con las ganas, porque este es un espacio para reclamar, y no para
consumir marihuana. Eso estuvo claro desde el principio", dijo una de
las organizadoras, Mara Escudero, cuando terminó la movilización.

    Una enorme bandera violeta, verde, amarilla y roja --de la murga
Los caídos del Puente-- flameaba al lado de los carteles con la
consigna convocante. Los organizadores estaban vestidos de negro, con
remeras que llevaban impreso el artículo 19 de la Constitución
nacional. "Las acciones privadas de los hombres que de ningún modo
ofendan al orden y a la moral pública ni perjudiquen a un tercero,
están sólo reservadas a Dios, y exentas de la autoridad de los
magistrados". En ese sentido, Inchaurraga puntualizó: "Muchas
personas pierden de vista que se trata de una cuestión de principios,
de defensa de las libertades individuales, más allá de la conducta
personal con respecto al consumo".

    Con la misma certeza, el director de la Oficina Municipal del
Consumidor, Carlos Comi, se sumó a la convocatoria. "Vine para no
formar parte de la hipocresía rosarina, que se demostró estas semanas
con algunas de las voces del debate por la despenalización del
consumo personal. Es una barbaridad que la ley trate del mismo modo a
un chico de 18 años que fuma marihuana y a un narcotraficante",
indicó.

    Antes de salir de plaza Pringles, los manifestantes recibieron la
inesperada adhesión --a los bocinazos limpios-- del conductor de un
enorme camión que saludó la consigna "Contra la intolerancia". Uno de
los participantes que llegó en forma espontánea, Orlando, argumentó:
"Vengo porque es la primera manifestación pública de las personas que
consumen marihuana en la ciudad. Hasta ahora, es sólo una actividad
privada, que se realiza con temor al garrotazo, así que aplaudo la
iniciativa de sacar el tema al ámbito de lo público".

    En la plaza Montenegro, al término de la movilización, hubo un acto
informal. "Estamos trabajando en los barrios, haciendo prevención, y
siempre decimos que la droga no mata, sino el sida, el gatillo fácil
de la policía, el hambre, la miseria", expresó Flecha, uno de los
integrantes de la Red Argentina de Defensa de los Derechos de los
Usuarios de Droga (Raddud), que también organizó la manifestación.
Arengó: "Organicémonos y digamos basta a los arrestos por consumo de
marihuana, porque delincuente es el que mata, roba o viola y no el
que fuma un faso".

    Por su parte, Gustavo Hurtado, de Arda, destacó la marcha como un
hito en la historia de la lucha por la despenalización del consumo.
"Basta de mentiras e hipocresías en relación al uso de drogas", pidió
Hurtado, quien se refirió al uso terapéutico del cannabis y
puntualizó que desde la puesta en vigencia de la ley 23.737, el 34
por ciento de los procesados fueron consumidores que tenían drogas
para uso personal. "Está claro que esta política de guerra afecta
sobre todo a los sectores más vulnerables de la población", expresó.

    El acto estaba por terminar, y el clima era festivo entre los
participantes, cuando Flecha agradeció la presencia de Popono, el
líder de Los Vándalos. Sin equipo de música, y con la sola potencia
de su voz y su carisma, el cantante entonó "Acá no hay", mientras
todos los presentes se prendían. Después, otro músico --Yipi-- dijo
su verdad: "Que Rosario se saque el antifaz, que no sea careta. Hace
30 años que consumo marihuana, y por eso los jueces federales me
toman de punto, aunque no me trajo ningún problema de salud, y tengo
un hijo sano. La marihuana no le molesta al que fuma, mucho menos al
que no fuma".

    La promesa de los organizadores --en la voz de la psicóloga Mara
Escudero-- fue descansar sólo unos días y poner luego toda la energía
en la marcha del año próximo. En la cara de todos se veía la
satisfacción del objetivo cumplido. "Abrimos el debate sobre un tema
que hace diez años ni siquiera se podía hablar. Cuando decidimos
sacar a la calle una consigna tan revolucionaria del orden
establecido, éramos conscientes del trabajo que teníamos por
delante", expresó Inchaurraga.
______________________________


Pubdate: Thu, 02 May 2002
Source: Hour Magazine (CN QU)
Copyright: 2002, Communications Voir Inc.
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.hour.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/971
Author: Charlie McKenzie

MARCHING ON HIGH

For thousands of Montealers and millions worldwide, the Million Marijuana
March is both a fundamental right and a fun-filled rite of spring.

   From its beginning in May 1998, when activists faced down then-New York
mayor Rudolph Giuliani in a U.S. federal court and won their right to march
for marijuana down New York's famed 5th Avenue, the first Saturday in May
has since become an internationally-recognized day of pro-marijuana marches
and festivals. Under the stewardship of the provincial Bloc Pot and federal
Marijuana Party, Montreal was one of the original participating cities.

In recent years they confined the march to the trendy streets of the
Plateau but organizers this year are taking the cause into the troubled
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district, long considered the exclusive fiefdom of
outlaw biker gangs.

"We know many [East-end residents] are silently sympathetic to ending
marijuana prohibition and the violence associated with the drug trade,"
says federal Marijuana Party leader Marc-Boris St-Maurice.

The march starts at "high" noon from Joliette metro, and will eventually
wind its way to Berri-UQAM Square. Their cavalcade will include a "rolling
stage" with a bevy of indigenous musicians, culled from local groups
GrimSkunk, Overbass and Cavaliers Noirs, under the cover-name "Collectivo."

Since coming out as a marijuana activist in 1993, St-Maurice has helped
organize five annual smoke-ins, four Million March parades, the provincial
Bloc Pot and the federal Marijuana Party. "It's been a long, strange trip,"
he recalls. "But strangest perhaps is our relationship with the police -
for this one day each year, they're really out there helping us. And each
year I find myself reminding people to be polite with the cops." "After
all, this is a celebration," he said, "not a demonstration." Participants
assemble at Metro Joliette around 11 a.m.
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Pubdate: Sun, 05 May 2002
Source: Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
Copyright: 2002 The Gazette, a division of Southam Inc.
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/274
Author: Irwin Block, Montreal Gazette

ACTIVISTS STAGE SMOKE-IN FOR LEGAL POT

A sweet, pungent smell filled the streets of midtown neighbourhoods
yesterday.

It was the odour of pot being smoked freely as hundreds of young
people demonstrated for the decriminalization of marijuana.

The smoke-in was one of similar events in 100 cities - from Adelaide
to Zagreb - to get cannabis products off the banned list.

"We'd like to end prohibition so that we can get on with our lives and
no longer be treated as criminals for a simple choice of what we
choose to consume," said Marc-Boris St-Maurice, 33, interim leader of
the Marijuana Party, which has run candidates in federal elections.

"It's a relatively harmless plant," St-Maurice argued.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n859.a10.html

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From: <dennylane@...>
To: "Dana Beal" <dana@...>
Subject: Burlington, Vt. MMM report
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 22:37:13 -0400


I'm glad to report that it t'was a sunny day and God shined on our
event at Burlington City Hall Park, just a few blocks from Lake
Champlain.  We probably had over 1,000 people in attendance through
the course of the event, which ran from 12:30 til 4:20.  I emceed the
event and didn't have any dead air time, introducing various speakers
and the Channel 2 Dub Band who provided excellent musical
entertainment.  We had a medical marijuana petition that was signed
by over 240 people recommending our legislators pass the most
stringent med. mj. law in the country.   I had a variety of
politicians and anti-prohibitionists including a neurologist and the
former? Head of Western Ops for the CIA speaking out against the WAR.
All 3 major TV networks did a story on their 6 o'clock and 11 o'clock
evening news.  None were negative and actually had myself and another
person interviewed so we could say our piece without too much
editorializing and censorship.  The biggest alternative paper in Vt.-
Seven Days(they have a website) sent some reporters and I and others
did interviews with them that should be published this Thursday.
There were no arrests!  Just as I did in '99, I reminded people that
this was a serious protest and not an excuse to get high in public
and that we wanted to send the right image to the TV public.
Everyone said they had a great time which was great but I reminded
them of all the PO's that weren't having such a good day and they all
better get off their butts and do something- ANYTHING!- write to your
legislators, call them, email them, get rid of them and elect people
who will change the laws, write LTE's, talk to your neighbors and
friends, etc. etc.  I discussed the medical, industrial uses of hemp
in addition to the civil liberties issue and how prohibition began.
We gave out a lot of literature on cannabis facts and figures and had
NORML and MPP literature to dispense as well as stuff from FIJA.
Only 3 uniformed cops were at the event and when I asked them how
they enjoyed this easy assignment they said they were having a
pleasant time except for some drunk.  In '99 we had no uniformed
officers and I was really surprised.  Until the 3 uniforms showed up
there was a cop car that circled the park for a couple hours, but all
was peaceful and there was no reason for them to get involved.  So
since it's pretty much of a thankless job-organizing an MMM(I started
jan.1st and worked til May 4th with just a couple hours of sleep the
nite before), I'll take this opportunity to pat myself on the back
for a job well done and well received and well-publicized and
attended.  Unfortunately most of the UVM students would rather have a
4/20 smoke-in in the sanctuary of their campus than to venture forth
in the real world and stand up and speak out.  I did allow a tent for
a student trying to start a Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, and
as mentioned got people interested in NORML and the MPP and other
groups as well.  Hopefully everyone came away more informed and more
motivated and for those that watched it on TV, they too will become
more active.  Hope everyone else organizing an MMM had good weather,
turnout and a peaceful event!  Best wishes,  Denny Lane


_________

From: Andrew Seidenfeld <noprob@...>
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>,
	 <ptpeet@...>,
	 Ssdptalk mailing list submission <ssdptalk@...>
Status:

I didn't catch the early evening news at 7, but at 10:00pm Channels 5 and 9
both broadcast local news, and they both covered New York's Million
Marijuana March.

Channel 5, Fox, had a short thing, maybe 15 seconds, with great on-stage
footage of Preston Peet editor of http://www.drugwar.com. They mentioned the
police made 148 arrests there, though I don't know if this is the latest
figure. I presume most of the arrests were for marijuana possession, but I
wonder if those arrested just got a desk appearance ticket (out of the cop
shop in a few hours) or were put through the system (in jail until bail
could be set, and paid, on Monday or Tuesday).

Channel 9, UPN, ran 2 or 3 promos leading up to their coverage, which lasted
about a minute. They had great footage of the parade (which I missed this
year), and Cures Not War's Dana Beal (http://www.cures-not-wars.org),
talking on stage about nonviolently repealing the marijuana laws. Also
footage of people booing the police as they took away another person.

Neither channel showed anyone smoking pot, because not many people were
smoking pot. There were about 500 cops there, and thousands of people there.
Still, the event was somewhat smaller than last year, when there also
hundreds of cops and not many people smoking pot. The weather was sunny and
warm.

ABC 20/20 was there videotaping anybody who wanted to say anything; they'll
probably air a piece this summer.

There were 3 stages again this year. There were also vendors for food,
clothing, and paraphernalia, and a table for a Libertarian party candidate,
and for Medical Marijuana Barbie, now with "Hookers for Weed."

Some really good music, and good speakers, including Dana, Preston, Ask Ed
(Ed Rosenthal), and people from Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and the
Unitarian Universalist Church, the Pie Man, and more.
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From: eco man <tents444@...>
Subject: [mayday] New York City MMM photos, links. Indymedia.


Please forward.

New York City MMM photos, links. Indymedia.

Here are some photos from the NYC MMM march.  2 of the photos are in
the MMM Cannabis Action Yahoo Group archive at this specific
location:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/7

One photo  is a compilation-montage of 4 photos that cryote stitched
together from photos at NYC Indymedia.
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41100

To see the web pages with the larger versions of the 4 photos click
the first 4 links below:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23798
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23796
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23794
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23793

Pubdate: Sun, 05 May 2002
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2002 The New York Times Company
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Author: Thomas J. Lueck

PROPONENTS OF MARIJUANA STAGE PROTEST

An annual rite of protest by marijuana advocates resulted in 148 arrests
yesterday as several thousand people gathered in Lower Manhattan for a
march and rally.

The police said the demonstration, billed by its organizers as Million
Marijuana March 2002, was peaceful. All arrests were for possession or use
of marijuana, according to Officer Guy Braun, a police spokesman.

The crowd, which began gathering shortly after 1 p.m. at Houston Street and
Broadway, grew to about 6,000 as it made its way down a single lane of
Broadway to Battery Park, according to participants and some observers. The
police declined to estimate the size of the crowd.

Although similar rallies have been staged for years in Manhattan, the one
yesterday may have struck a nerve at City Hall, since Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg was prompted last month to say he regretted having mentioned in a
interview that he had once tried marijuana and enjoyed it.


URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n860.a08.html

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From: jph13@... (Julian P. Heicklen)
Subject: MMM in Philadelphia
Status:

Hi:

          This is my report on the MMM in philadelphia on May 4.  The
organizers, Chuck Palmer and Diane Fornbacher, did a superb job.  We had
about 100 participants at the peak.  Speakers included, but were not
limited to, Ken Krawchuk, Carl Romanelli, Gene Laratonda, Diane Fornbacher,
Chuck Palmer, and myself.

          The MM started at noon at the Federal Building.  At about 1:00, we
marched to the federal prison for a brief visit, and then marched to City
Hall, where the action really blossomed.  There was a continual din of
honking cars, buses, and trucks.  One automobile driver stopped his car
right in his lane of traffic, jumped out, and participated for a few
minutes.

          The demonstration ended at about 3:30 PM.  Yours in liberty-Julian
____________________
Legalize It
Stranahan Park goes to pot
BY DAN SWEENEY

Three years ago, Sean LaPierre was toolin' around Fort Lauderdale,
just minding his
own business, when he was rear-ended by a semi truck that seemed in no hurry to
slow down. Now, in most situations, that would be the end of the
story. But LaPierre didn't wind up a grease spot on the side of the
road. Aside from two herniated disks in his back, LaPierre came out
on top.

Unfortunately, herniated disks don't go away. LaPierre had toked the
reefer recreationally since age 27, but after meeting Erv Rosenfeld,
one of seven people approved by the federal government to use
marijuana medicinally, he changed his tune from recreation to
medicine.

"As soon as that happened [meeting Rosenfeld], something inside of me
just  said, 'Well, there it is. There's just more proof,'" he says.
"So during this time of my accident, I was, of course,
self-medicating."

Although Rosenfeld, who suffers from a  rare condition causing tumors
to grow throughout his body, puffs up to 12 joints a day, LaPierre
uses far less, about half a doobie a week. Of course, under current
law, even that minute amount is brazenly illegal, so LaPierre, along
with a legion of others, has decided to do something about it.

The Million Marijuana March takes place this Saturday in cities
across the world, from Abbotsford, British Colombia, to Zagreb,
Croatia. LaPierre and others will be on hand at Stranahan Park to get
people to sign a petition to  put a medicinal-marijuana bill up for a
vote. While Cures Not Wars, the organization orchestrating the global
event, supports the legalization of cannabis, here in Fort
Lauderdale, medicinal marijuana and hemp legalization are the order
of the day.

Hemp is the nonspacy form of cannabis that has the second-highest
amount of protein among vegetables (next to soybeans) and unlike soy
can also be used for clothing, fuel, and just about any other use
that George Washington Carver claimed for the peanut.

"I'm after the medical aspects, the food aspects, the healthiness of
this whole hemp issue," LaPierre says. "I want this done
responsibly.... This is a great plant; there are so many uses for it.
Let's do this responsibly and see where it goes from there. Let's at
least get some documentation on the benefits before
   we go and judge the issue."
_____________________

Pubdate: Mon, 06 May 2002
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 The Toronto Star
Contact: lettertoed@...
Website: http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Author: David Graham
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

POT FREEDOM FIGHTERS FULLY BAKED

Dude, you forgot to book the square.

Whaaat?

You know, Nathan Phillips Square, for the pot parade on Saturday.

One can only imagine the disjointed conversation that took place when
organizers of Toronto's annual Million Marijuana March realized they had
left it too late to book the space in front of City Hall for their
demonstration.

While on Saturday, in 158 cities around the world millions of marijuana
freedom fighters took to the streets to defend their rights to toke up, in
Toronto 3,000 took to the streets yesterday, a day later.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n866.a08.html


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Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Lansing State Journal (MI)
Webpage: http://www.lsj.com/news/local/020505_marijuana_1b-2b.html
Copyright: 2002 Lansing State Journal
Contact: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/contactus/newsroom/letter.html
Website: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/232
Author: Kirsten Buys, Lansing State Journal
See: the sidebar below.

MARIJUANA ACTIVISTS PUSH FOR LEGALIZATION

March, Rally Aim To Educate People On Herb's Benefits

Renee Emry Wolfe stood on the Capitol steps Saturday and spoke to
about 100 people rallying for the legalization of marijuana. Wolfe,
who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 23 years ago, said smoking
marijuana is the only reason she can stand at all. "I can only get out
of this wheelchair because I smoke the herb," said Wolfe, an Ann Arbor
resident. "It's my medicine."

Lansing was one of five cities in Michigan and 190 around the world
that participated in the Million Marijuana March, held each year on
the first Saturday in May.

Supporters from across the state, from toddlers to grandparents,
marched from Oldsmobile Park to the Capitol holding signs that read
"Cannabis reform" and "Legalize freedom" while chanting "Free the
weed" and "Prohibition has got to go."

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n859.a07.html
Webpage: http://www.lsj.com/news/local/020505_marijuana_1b-2b.html

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From: "LastHippy" <lasthippy@...>
To: "'Dana Beal'" <dana@...>
Subject: RE: NYPD Backs Off Custodial Arrests for MMM2002!; Eaton,
Charleston,Limburg, Sao Paulo Vermilion, Ohio Make 198 Cities for MMM
2002; Ft Wayne 71st City for May 3 2003 Global March for Cannabis
Liberation


Dear Dana,

¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý I just returned from Lansing's MMM and it was the best rally
in a long time. Great work by you, Kathy Kennedy, Ann Arbor's Adam
Brooke, Party Party's Marvin Marvin and all the other great speakers
and organizers that made this event smooth and hassle free. The
weather was great and all in all everyone had a super time. Can't
wait 'til next year.
- ---

Subject: MN: US MI: Marchers Voice the Need For Legal Weed
Newshawk: Write a LTE today! See: http://www.mapinc.org/resource/
Pubdate: Sun, 05 May 2002
Source: Flint Journal (MI)
Copyright: 2002 Flint Journal
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.flintjournal.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/836
Author: Joe Lawlor, Journal Staff Writer
Cited: Legalize Michigan http://www.geocities.com/legalizemichigan/
Facts: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/marijuan.htm
Drug Warrior Distortions http://www.csdp.org/research/dwdist.htm

MARCHERS VOICE THE NEED FOR LEGAL WEED

Flint - "If you can get pot people up before noon, you can change the
world," said Linda Hagensen, while resting on her multi-colored cane.

About 100 protesters rallying for the legalization of marijuana rose
within hours of dawn for a 10 a.m. rally Saturday in front of Flint
City Hall.

Protesters also were scheduled to rally in Battle Creek, Traverse
City, Lansing and Detroit. Police made no arrests in Flint and there
didn't appear to be any obvious marijuana use.

They called it "Liberation Day," and their symbol was the "Free Weed"
van.

Some wore leather jackets, others sported tie-dye shirts or red and
purple scarfs. One man rested a 2-foot plastic Godzilla on his shoulder.

Plastic marijuana plants were everywhere - in pots, around people's
necks, tying up pony tails or hanging from belts.

A.S. Wright, rally organizer, took pictures of people holding plastic
plants, encouraging them to "Flip off FANG (Flint Area Narcotics Group)."

Wright, who wore a black top hat and smoked a cigar, said the pictures
will be posted on the Legalize Michigan Web site.

"The cool thing is, they won't be able to tell the plants aren't real
from looking at the Web site," Wright said. "One time, this cop tried
to stop me because he saw my plants, and I said 'No, look dude, it's
nylon.' And then he was like, 'Can I search your van?'

"So I gave him my potted plant from the van, and after he saw it was
plastic, he was like, 'Wo-ow.' After that, he was just like, 'No way,
I'm just going to leave this guy alone.' "

About 100 people chanted "No more drug war!" and joked with the
Genesee County Sheriff's Department mounted patrol, who briefly rode
across the street from the protesters.

"We have some for you!" one man yelled, as the deputies
laughed.

The protesters held signs with phrases like, "I'm not a criminal, I'm
a pot smoker," "War on drugs is a war on the poor and working class,"
and "Stand up for American freedom."

Ken Mathenia, of the Green Party, said the party is in favor of
legalizing marijuana possession, a position that he doesn't believe
will alienate voters.

"Here we have people locked up for possessing marijuana, and yet Enron
executives are walking the streets," Mathenia said.

Hagensen of Flintsaid marijuana is less harmful than
alcohol.

"The myth that you will end up living in your mother's basement wasn't
true in 1972, and it isn't true now," Hagensen said. "Make me
responsible for my actions, and not because I smoke weed."

According to the National Institute for Drug Abuse, long-term
marijuana use can affect motor skills, short-term memory and is
harmful to the lungs.

Betsy Savinski of Flint has multiple sclerosis and said smoking
marijuana eases her pain and controls her muscle spasms.

Some states, such as Oregon, have approved marijuana for medicinal
purposes.

But Hagensen said the goal is to legalize marijuana for all
uses.

"You should not have to be sick to be free," Hagensen said.

______________

From: aslinn_skywolf <aslinn_skywolf@...>
X-Accept-Language: en
To: Dana Beal <dana@...>
Subject: Report from Indy
Status:

Hey Dana!

Hope everyone had a great event weekend!

Here in Indianapolis we had 175 at the peak...not bad for Indy. Lots of
great speakers, an excellent band, no hassles on any front...didn't even
see a cop (Of course I'm sure they were there). Weather was
perfect...Mostly sunny, 75 degrees.

This isn't a great weekend for an event in Indianapolis that's not part
of the 500. There's a major mini-marathon that happens the first weekend
in May as the opening of race season. There's also the Kentucky Derby
just 100 miles away in Louisville. In spite of that, we had a good
crowd...Indiana NORML made a lot of good contacts for members and
strengthened alliances with several organizations that were skeptical
about the benefits of Cannabis.

I'm taking a couple of weeks hiatus before I start planning next year's
event.

Thanks for everything you've done for us!

Skywolf.
___________

From: "Caren Thomas" <chicagomarch2002@...>
To: 420@...
Bcc:
Subject: new info
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:52:54 -0500
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2002 03:53:00.0883 (UTC)
FILETIME=[8448B230:01C1F4B1]
Status:

Hey Now!      { Hemp Fest Band Schedule, see below! }
{Get posters & leaflets Fri at Weeds}

Time to change the laws, time to educate ourselves about what our
government is REALLY doing.
Lots is going on this year…

THANKS  TO  ALL  WHO  MARCHED  WITH  US  LAST  SATURDAY.   I  KNOW  I
HAD  A  GREAT  TIME,  MUCH  FUN!!
*** The Liberation Day Marijuana MARCH was Saturday, May 4th, Music
from Los Marijuanos & Jet, & we took our message(s) right up Michigan
Avenue. The weather was great & lots of people were there to see us &
many got literature. It seemed to me that we got a supportive
reaction from a larger percentage of the people we passed than last
year, lots of folks honked & cheered for us, maybe the tide is
turning…JOIN US NEXT YEAR, the first Sat. of EVERY May until the laws
change, May 3, 2003, High Noon, Federal Plaza, Dearborn St. between
Jackson & Adams downtown Chicago! Chicagomarch2003@...   Stop
ALL Cannabis Arrests!

***A BENEFIT for the March & Fests, THIS FRIDAY, May 10th at Weeds,
1555 N. Dayton, one block southwest of the North, Clyborn, & Halsted
intersection.  21& over for this one. $5 donation or just stop by for
posters & leaflets. Music begins at 9pm. Genral Patton & His
Privates, Broken Finger, & Superchrist

*** WINDY CITY HEMP FEST,   May 18-19th,
On the Lakefront between Montrose & Wilson      FREE in Our Parks
High noon 'til 9 pm both days!
Speakers, bands, vendors, Heartland Cafe food, not-for-profiit groups
2 days of fun & music 2 change the laws!          Stand up for Your Rights!
Saturday, May 18th                             Sunday, May 19th
12-Growth Ltd.                                   12-Terrapin Flyer
1-Electric Medicine                            1- Oucho Sparks
2- Planet Underground                       2- Born Against Time
3-13 Flowers                                       3- Lucius Warbaby
4-Blizzard of Ozz                               4- Waste
5- Genral Patton & His Privates         5- Secret Agent Bill
6-Los Marijuanos                               6- Trading Brains
7-Milk Plow                                       7-Jack Straw
8- Enuff Znuff                                    8- Freeform Sessions
Acoustic music from Greg Nelson Sat., & Scottish MacMillan Sunday
--- A multitude of speakers on the many facets of the marijuana
issue, the drug war, & related to topics, Ben Masel, Jet, Caren,
EMCEE CHEF RA
DIRECTIONS:  By car take Lake Shore Drive  north from downtown, exit
at Montrose, turn right (head east to the lake)…at the stop sign look
to the left, you’re there…or exit I 90/94 (the Kennedy Expressway) at
Irving Park and head east toward the lake, then take Lake Shore Drive
north to Montrose and proceed as above…-OR- take the Red Line EL
train to Wilson & head east, -OR- bus#146 north to Montrose & head
east, CTA travel info 312-836-7000
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE – Please call 773-381-9330 & let us know if
you’d like to help us spread the word, it’s easy to leave leaflets &
posters at most record stores, music stores, & many other businesses,
or give them out at school, at other music shows & concerts,
wherever!  (just be careful not to do it on private property where
they don’t want you to --- many bars & clubs don’t mind if you pass
them out. It’s always legal for you to pass them out on the sidewalk)
SO LET US KNOW HOW TO GET LEAFLETS & POSTERS TO YOU IF YOU WANT TO
HELP!

_________

_________

From: "Dean" <dean@...>
To: <dana@...>
Subject: Houston Liberation Day
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 03:33:17 -0500
X-Priority: 3
Status:

It was the best of times...

We got some new members to NORML, made lots of friends and got lots
of signatures for the Declaration of Evident Truth, got several
hundred postcards filled in for George Bush, Rick Perry, Lee Brown
and the editors of the Chronicle.  The bands were fantastic, the
speakers got the crowds involved and interested.  We played Bill
Maher's unedited speech from the NORML conference.  Distributed
hundreds of copies of "Drug Truth - Abrahamson to Zeese".  Total
attendance was about 5 hundred.
_________



   From: "Bob Ramsey" <b.rmz@...>
Subject: Re: MMM reports.


Here are a few snapshots from today's Million Marijuana March in
Dallas from 4:20-6pm CDT.


http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mm3198.jpg  184K

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From: "Asoc. Mexicana de Estudios Sobre el Cannabis" <amecamexico@...>
To: dana@...
Bcc:
Subject: MMMMéxico: a success!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 05:33:06 +0000
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2002 05:33:06.0765 (UTC)
FILETIME=[80118FD0:01C1F4BF]
Status:

Almost 300 people join the MMM México, that was called “Día
Mundial por la Liberación de la Mariguana” (World Marihuana
Liberation Day), in México City.

The rally and march were historic in this country, where these kind
of themes are considered “tabues”. It was an historical
moment in the life of this country. We show the true: cannabis
smokers are pacific and creative because we sing, dance and play
along the march around La Alameda, the most centrical park in Mexico
City.

The act  atract big interest by the media. Two of the most important
newspapers in México (Reforma and La Jornada) give the new
professionally and seriously.
Reforma:  http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/192115/
La Jornada: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/09an1esp.php?origen=espectaculos.html

Leopoldo Rivera Rivera.

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From: Bob Newland <newland@...>
Reply-To: newland@...
X-Accept-Language: en
Subject: Rapid City Million Mj MArch
Status:

Below is the story which ran today (Sun. 5, May, 2002) about the Rapid
City Segment of the Million Marijuana March. This is from the Rapid City
(SD) Journal.

>From other press reports I've seen from around the nation, the Rapid
City MMM was at least as well-attended as many marches in much larger cities.

And, for the record, I didn't lead a chant which said "Here to keep cops
off kids." I never even heard that specific chant. We chanted, several
times, "Stop putting peaceful honest people in jail simply for trying to
feel better." And, a couple of times, "We're here. We're high. Get used
to it." (the marchers really seemed to like that one)

There are several  inaccuracies in the story below, but they're less
significant than the one I just mentioned.

Vaya con Dios en Cinco de Mayo!

Bob Newland
http://www.sodaknorml.org/

If you have trouble sending a REPLY, try mailto:rjnewland@...

=================================

Pot supporters parade Saturday

By Jan Kaus, Northern Hills Bureau

RAPID CITY -- More than 300 marchers took to Sixth Street in Rapid City
Saturday afternoon to show their support for efforts to reform marijuana
laws and legalize its use.

Proponents said that people in more than 160 cities around the world
would stage similar marches in parades collectively known as the Million
Marijuana March.

Rapid City's event was organized and led by marijuana/hemp proponent Bob
Newland of Hermosa, president of SoDakNORML, an affiliate of the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

"Our position is that public policy concerning marijuana is a disaster,"
Newland said before the march. "If we stimulate people to voice their
fears, angers or misgivings on public policy dealing with marijuana,
we'll succeed. By that definition, we've already succeeded. And we won't
stop until we get them to stop putting people in jail simply for trying
to feel better."

Marchers carried posters urging reform of marijuana laws. Messages
included, "Educate and regulate, don't incarcerate." Newland led chants
such as, "Here to keep cops off kids."

And despite earlier concerns by Rapid City School District officials
over the starting point of the march — at Sixth and Columbus streets in
front of Dakota Middle School — no protesters were seen.

This was the sixth year for the march but the first for Rapid City.
Newland said it's the best-known single international event centered on
the cannabis plant, and he called Saturday a day of protest against
putting people in jail.

"Its timing served us well," he added, referring to legislative efforts
the coalition is sponsoring and petition signatures being gathered Saturday.

"We have to turn in enough signatures Tuesday to get the issue of
legalizing industrial hemp on the ballot for the November election."

Marchers were more than happy to share their views on why they want hemp
legalized — although most chose to share only their first names.

"Vince" was visiting Newland from Florida, so he joined the march. He
said he feels most politicians choose to fight the marijuana issue
simply to give an impression that they're doing something.

"They've chosen to fight something that goes against what most people
say is not a battle to be fought," Vince said. He added, "A good
percentage of people have smoked pot or do it now, so if those people
are fighting this, then they are hypocrites. At least there's a few
individuals that will still stand for something."

Another marcher, who identified himself as Garry, said he thinks
marijuana has good points and bad points. "I believe it's useful to a
certain extent if you don't abuse it. If you abuse it, it'll use you."

Marchers represented a cross-section of the population, some with
children in tow. The march ended without incident at Memorial Park.
_________

From: "Rob Taylor" <havoc_rules@...>
To: dana@...
Bcc:
Subject: Another Successful March
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 02:04:47 -0600
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2002 08:04:47.0713 (UTC)
FILETIME=[B0A80510:01C1F4D4]
Status:

Hey Dana,
I wanted to get back with you on the success of the Albuquerque
March.  The turn-out was not as good as previous years, but there was
a lot more freedom.  That means less people but more pot being smoked
and passed in plain view of God and the rest of the world.  In past
years the city has sent out its police in large numbers with its
Crime Scene Investigation RV.  Even when they did show up we
practiced open civil disobedience without any resistance from the
police.  This year, other than the undercover officers, there was no
law presence at all. We estimated between 500 and 1000 participants.
Our group didn't have as much money for advertisement, donations have
been sparse this year. We did get some news coverage, which was a
thirty second blurb on Ch#13 CBS.  The highlight of the march came
when Tommy Chong came out of a store front and started taking
pictures of the crowd.  At that point everybody started cheering and
getting excited over his presence.  This is Albuquerque and not to
many well known celebrities are walking around.  I, myself was
filming and could hardly believe the luck of seeing someone so
connected to this issue, quite the coincidence. We continued on to
Roosevelt Park where there was food, music, and speakers.  Everyone
had a good time and was even more determined than ever to change the
laws. Well Dana, I want to thank you for those wonderful posters and
your long term involvement.  Your efforts will be remembered in the
heart of the High Desert Plains, Peace my friend.
Sincerely, Rob Taylor
_________

Pubdate: Sun, 05 May 2002
Source: Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
Webpage: http://www.sltrib.com/05052002/utah/734220.htm
Copyright: 2002 The Salt Lake Tribune
Contact: letters@...
Website: http://www.sltrib.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/383
Author: Kevin Cantera

SLC RALLY PROMOTES MEDICAL MARIJUANA

A noisy band of pro-marijuana marchers moved through Salt Lake City on
Saturday with a blunt message -- it's time to legalize medical pot in
Utah.

Marijuana "has the power to make us a more loving and compassionate
society," said California activist Dennis Peron, leading the raucous
and tie-dyed crowd up to the state Capitol, where they rallied on the
Statehouse steps.

About 200 people turned out for the Million Marijuana March, many
sporting green pot leaf stamps on their faces, others carrying signs
with messages like, "Marijuana is good medicine: The only side effect
is happiness."

The group cheered and called out "Smoke weed!" as passing drivers
honked their support.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n862.a03.html
Webpage: http://www.sltrib.com/05052002/utah/734220.htm

_____________

Pubdate: Sun, 05 May 2002
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
Webpage:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2002/May/05/local/stories/09local.htm
Copyright: 2002 Santa Cruz Sentinel
Contact: editorial@...
Website: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/394

MARCH FOR MARIJUANA DRAWS A CROWD CITY HALL, POLICE STATION

Close to 100 people turned out for the Million Marijuana March
Saturday to protest the federal government's refusal to legalize
medical marijuana.

The smell of marijuana marked their trail.

The march started at 4 p.m. at the Town Clock. After "the ritual" at
4:20 p.m. -- which organizers called "international smoking time" --
protesters headed down Pacific Garden Mall toward the Santa Cruz
Police Department, where they camped out for about a half hour. City
Hall was the next and final stop.

Hemp pins and tattoos, as well as bare chests and dreadlocks,
abounded. Participants criticized media coverage of pot issues and
encouraged people to attend training sessions on how to break the law
nonviolently to get one's message out.

"Free the people from this hypocrisy democracy, man!" shouted one
protester.

"I say smoke more pot!" was a more common refrain.

Outside Santa Cruz, similar marches occurred across the nation and
world, participants said. The "Liberation Day" event was organized by
the organization Cures Not Wars.

Webpage:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2002/May/05/local/stories/09l
ocal.htm
_____________

From: Dale Gieringer <canorml@...>
Subject: SF Marijuana March - Agence France-Presse


Agence France-Presse ran this story today on its worldwide newswire.


      Thousands of pro-marijuana protesters march in favor of legalization
      by Ann Harrison

      SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (AFP) - Several thousand protesters here
demonstrated Saturday against a US crackdown on the use of marijuana for
medicinal purposes, one day after a federal judge supported a US
government
lawsuit against five San Francisco area cannabis clubs.
      Organizers said the San Francisco Cannabis Freedom Day rally was one
of
some 200 such events which took place in 30 countries Saturday to mark
the
Fourth Annual Million Marijuana March.
      Many of those attending the San Francisco rally said they feared
that federal authorities are poised to raid local cannabis clubs which have
become the focal point of the US medical marijuana movement.
      "We've been told that the raids are imminent," said Michael Barbitta
who works for the group Californians Helping Alleviate Medical Problems
--  CHAMP -- one of two San Francisco cannabis clubs which shut their
doors  Friday after the judgment was issued.
      "The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been waiting for this
decision which they will use as ammunition to close the clubs," Barbitta
said.
      DEA spokesman Richard Meyer declined to comment on future
operations.
      "We are are taking into account what happens in court and will
adjust our operational decisions accordingly," said Meyer.
      "Marijuana remains illegal," he said. "We are enforcing the law and
the courts are siding with us."
      California's cannabis clubs serve an estimated 20,000 patients
under Proposition 215, a 1996 state law permitting the use of medical
marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.
      But federal authorities reject Proposition 215, and now are
prosecuting at least twelve California medical cannabis patients
under US narcotics laws.
      The US Supreme Court ruled last May that medical necessity was not a
defense for those who distribute medical cannabis.
      "I'm very afraid. This is a life or death issue for me," said a
medical marijuana patient at today's rally who identified himself as Brother
Wayne.
      "I suffer from disabling AIDS neuropathy and medical marijuana is
the only thing that helps me keep food down."
      Robert Raich, a lawyer for the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative
which was named in a US government lawsuit against five San Francisco
area cannabis clubs, argued that the federal government exceeded its
constitutional authority over interstate commerce by banning cannabis
distribution within California.
      "We will appeal and we feel confident of a much more favorable
ruling  in the court of appeals," Raich said.
--
----
Dale Gieringer (415) 563-5858  // canorml@...
2215-R Market St. #278, San Francisco CA 94114

From: seniornude <seniornude@...>

       Notes from San Francisco's Cannabis Freedom Day, 4 May 2002:
[ please forward, post,publish, etc., wherever appropriate]
......................................................

       In warm sun, a band plays "We want to grow the plant that can save the
world!"  People dance wildly, some with skill, some with redeeming social
glee. Then they chant "FOR POT PEACE!".  Then the best dancer gets dressed
again, and hands out leaflets. Between dance bands, one lone flamenco
guitarist weaves magic mirages in the air. The crowd gives a hero's welcome
to San Francisco city supervisor (councilmember) Mark Leno, most effective
local advocate for medical marijuana, soon moving up to the California state
legislature.  Organizers announce a picket at the Hall of Justice (local
criminal courts), for Monday, May 6, at noon.
        This large festival, stretching thru a block-long pedestrian mall,
offers three stages, presenting different flavors of entertainment, so it's
almost three festivals.
        The diverse crowds unite around 4:20 pm, to march around a downtown
tourist and shopping district, then circle back. Very few marchers carry
signs, but many wear garlands of silk leaves resembling cannabis.  As at
most S.F. pickets, the intergalactic-conspiracy  man and the senior nudist
promote their obscure causes, politely tolerated by ultramellow
"cannabists". By the time we return to United Nations Plaza, so has San
Francisco's typical fog.

-- notes by SUN  [http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude].
No rights reserved.  Reprint freely.
__________

From: "ramillegan" <RAMillegan@...>
Subject: [MMM] Peace March against the Drug War, Eugene, Oregon



Three hundred to 400 people marched in the streets of Eugene,
and over 500 people joined in at the rally for Eugene's Third
Annual Peace March against the Drug War held Saturday May
4th.

This event was part of a worldwide protest that happened in 198
cities.

The day was a beautiful sunny day with some breeze that at
times wafted the weed through the crowd of courageous,
concerned citizens.

The march began at 24th and Amazon Parkway where
supporters gathered informally and listened to music and were
treated to a free barbecue prepared on ecological-friendly
hydrogen grills. People prepared signs with various slogans to
carry or were able to choose from the many pre-made placards.
There were people of all ages including many families with
children. Some folks wore costumes and there was even a
human powered parade float.

Marchers left Amazon Park along the bike path and hit the streets
at 19th Avenue where we picked up our paid City of Eugene
police escort. The police were quite surprised at the size of our
crowd. An officer had come up to 24th Avenue gathering place
about 15 minutes before the march began and there were
about125 folks there then. Well, in the last few minutes, it was
just amazing, people just started arriving from every direction
and soon we had a crowd of over three hundred people as we
left the park. Because of the size of the crowd the police gave us
the whole street to march in instead of regulating us to just one
lane as in years past.

Along they way we gathered more people and had myriad
number of car horns in support. A very emotional moment was
when the marchers reached 11th Avenue and Brother Elisha,
who walks with a cane joined to lead the marchers on down the
street.

Amid clapping and cheers the marchers proceeded through the
Saturday Market and onto the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza
at the Lane County Couthouse. Marchers were greeted by the
band, The Thirteenth Tribe playing a rousing version of Peter
Tosh's Get-Up Stand-Up and Legalize-it.

During the rally folks heard from many different people, including
Richard Alevizos, who is running for Governor on a pro-hemp
platform, testimony from medical marijuana users and verses
from the Bible among others.

After the speakers, Abakadubi played a joyous, tight two-hour set
to a very appreciative crowd.

A big message from the rally was to sign the various petitions
and vote and liberate the plant.

Another theme of the rally was the arrest of "Danbo" a local
Cannabis activist by six armed police earlier in the day. Dan has
been expressing to the police his views on the unconstitutional
nature of the Drug War and has been very open about his
freedom as a citizen to have relationship with a plant that comes
from God.

This was a "power-trip" by the members of the Eugene police
force. They knew where Dan lived. If all they wished to do was to
arrest him that could have been done anytime. This arrogance
and misuse of police power may come cost the City of Eugene
dearly.

MMM Eugene Oregon. Peace March against the Drug War.
The following forwarded messages are in the MMM public archives:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/8  and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/9

------------------------------------------

Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada Web)
Webpage: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/05/04/marijuana_020504
Copyright: 2002 CBC
Contact: cbcinput@...
Website: http://www.cbc.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1412

MARIJUANA LOBBYISTS LIGHT UP ON PARLIAMENT HILL

VANCOUVER - Thousands of Canadians, some smoking pot, took part in what
supporters called the "Million Marijuana March" Saturday.

In at least 18 communities across the country, people rallied to
decriminalize cannabis. Carrying banners with slogans like "Overgrow the
Government," they sang songs and gave speeches demanding an end to the
prohibition against pot.

Similar demonstrations were held in more than 150 cities around the world -
a tradition on the first Saturday in May for the past few years.

"The Canadian public is coming on side. Sooner or later, the politicians
will have to follow," predicted Eugene Oscapella of the Canadian Foundation
for Drug Policy.

"What we need is legal, controlled, regulated access to marijuana for
adults," he told a rally on Parliament Hill. "We need honest education
about cannabis."

But critics are worried that letting adults smoke marijuana will increase
society's existing problems caused by drug abuse and addiction.

"Our nation is at risk ... our children and our families and our businesses
and our way of life virtually are at risk because of the predominant use of
drugs in our society," said Linda Bentall of the International Drug
Education and Awareness Society.

On Thursday, a Senate committee released a discussion paper on changes to
marijuana laws. It suggested there may be good reasons to decriminalize the
drug. The committee plans to hold public hearings over the next two months
before issuing a final report at the end of the summer.
- ---
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n862.a01.html
Webpage: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/05/04/marijuana_020504

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Dear Neighbor:

We're making our primary outreach tool, this videotape, available to
members of Community Board 2 in order to acquaint you with a genuine
advance in the treatment of addictions and ultimately the problem of
street sales of drugs in the Village.

Most of you are probably not aware of this breakthrough in
pharmacotherapy for addictions--Ibogaine --let alone the fact that
researchers at NYU Medical School are working on it. This rainforest
alkaloid has been reported to act as an addiction interrupter across
a wide spectrum of abused substances, legal and illegal, in more more
than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. A unique effect is the
simultaneous loss of multiple addictions--for example opiates,
meth-amphetamine, crack, alcohol and cigarettes--after as little as a
single treatment.

Ibogaine is the first pharmacotherapy where, when the treatment wears
off, addicts are free of both physical withdrawal and psychological
craving. And where opioid maintenance (methadone) or blockers
(naltrexone) fail to address the underlying dopaminergic disorder
(craving), re-treatment with Ibogaine (should uncontrollable cravings
re-cur, or in the event or relapse) is safe and easy.

Although a trickle of addicts from the Village are currently being
referred to treatment outside the U.S via Cures not Wars outreach
efforts, a large, simple, open trial similar to the procedures which
fast-tracked AIDS drugs is probably the only way large numbers of New
Yorkers with drug problems are going to get access to Ibogaine, or
its safer analog 18MC, any time soon. NYU researchers have already
done all the preliminary work. In fact, NYU is one of only 5 schools
in the country that is certified by the National Institute on Drugs
to develop new treatments for drug dependency.

The stumbling block, as always, is funding--plus lack of the support
Ibogaine would have if more people realized it's not some far-off
possibility in the distant future, but an option already available
for those who can afford to travel--and one that would be approved by
the FDA in as little as18 months with proper corporate and government
backing. [After all, NYU cannot be expected to fund clinical trials
out of its endowment.]

One thing is certain: more cops, more arrests may move drug dealing
down the block, but drug dealers will move out of the area altogether
when they start losing all their customers to Ibogaine treatment.
That's why folks who say the fastest way to get drugs out of the
Village is to squash dissent on drug reform measures such as
Ibogaine, separating cannabis from hard drugs, and so-on, are being
just a bit dis-ingenuous.

We know there are ideologues in this controversy who would cheerfully
torpedo a potential cure for drug addiction and keep it unavailable
for another 20 years, because they sincerely believe it "sends the
wrong message to kids" to accept any positive contribution from
"legalizers." Instead of raising tens of thousands of dollars from
corporate sources and wasting it on "Family Days" intended to exile
pro-Ibogaine, pro-medical marijuana demonstrators from Washington
Square Park, the same corporate funding could be employed much more
productively in a large clinical trial of Ibogaine at N.Y.U.

Also, if you look at the enclosed map, even with today's restrictive
courts, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NYPD agreed that
it is impossible to express our supprt for early Ibogaine trials
without being somewhere around the administrative center of NYU...so
that in 2001, we were next to Washington Square on Washington Place
anyway.

Why should this one set of issues be excluded from Washington Square?
In the past 4 months there have been pagans on one weekend, outright
protests against our President's war in Afghanistan the next. Every
other group that wants to influence NYU policy, from animal rights to
the teamsters, gets a permit for the park. [They've even had people
throwing elephant excrement at portraits of Giuliani!] Instead of
having 3,000 stragglers show up at 3 pm, why not a clear, 2 hour
period--11 am to 1 pm--with educational harm reduction speakers to
assemble the March, and with a sufficient group of marshalls left
behind to direct any latecomers to the March route?

Working at cross-purposes makes no sense, when a win/win option is
available to everyone. We should be designing a campaign that
mobilizes the media, politicians, celebrities, academia--and yes,
mass rallies and marches--for a truly effective, treatment-based
response to people's drug problems, instead of criminalizing and
demonizing folks who have a behavior disorder that could be cured in
a majority of cases, with one or two treatments of this gift of the
rainforest.

Don't take my word for it. Watch the tape. The second half shows an
actual time-lapse Ibogaine treatment of a longtime Washington Square
denizen who's triply addicted to methadone, crack and heroin. You
will be amazed at the transformation.


Yours Truly,



Dana Beal, co-Founder, CURES NOT WARS



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197+ cities worldwide and counting!!!
Cannabis Liberation Day. May 4 2002.
4th annual Million Marijuana March (MMM).
Against the global drug war.
No Global Police State.
Free the Prisoners of Drug War.

*MMM 2002 EVENT NAVIGATOR.
Cannabis Liberation Day. It lists the
names of nearly all of the MMM cities
worldwide on one page. In alphabetical
order. With the state and country names
also. Click any city in the alphabetical list to
see the contact and rally info for that city:
This is a great new web page:
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/navigator.php

*The main page for the continually-updated,
clickable, all-on-one-page, alphabetical city
list for MMM 2002, Cannabis Liberation Day,
is at the page here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2002.htm   and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2002.htm   and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2002.htm

cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com  is an email address for sending in MMM reports,
photos, web pages, info, etc.. Anybody can use this address. There is no need
to subscribe to anything first. Messages sent to this email address will end up
in the public archive at this MMM Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction

Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and to Cannabis News at submissions@...
where they will be posted at:
http://www.cannabisnews.com

Freddie Freak (of Norway?) has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally reports
worldwide:
http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/N/PottNytt_2002/MMM2002_aftermarch/mmm2002_afte\
rmarch__05_2002.htm


*FoM of Cannabis News has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally reports:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

*CannabisNews - Cannabis Archives. MMM rally reports may show up here first
before showing up in the FoM compilation page above.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml


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From: "preston peet" <ptpeet@...>

To: "rootsofteror" <rootsofterror@yahoogroups.com>

CC: "cia-drugs" <cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com>, "CRRH" <restore@...>,
FreedomNewsNet@..., ibogaine@...

Subject: Pig-headed Arrests Mar NYC MMM 2002 Event

Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 19:59:00 -0400


Greetings and salutations all,
     Here is my report for drugwar.com, with a number of photos, on the day's
pro-marijuana events, May 4th, 2002, in NYC.
     Enjoy, or get angry and vote, preferably for a third, fourth or fifth
party candidate. Whatever you do, please don't vote for an incumbent who's
admitted to "youthful" illicit drug use but done nothing to end the War.
Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@...
editor www.drugwar.com

http://www.drugwar.com/pmmmstealthyarrests.shtm

"Cops don't smoke, but they sure drink and drive."
Participants' chant during Million Marijuana March, NYC, May 4, 2002.

Pig-headed Arrests Mar NYC MMM 2002 Event

by Preston Peet- special to drugwar.com
(all photos unless otherwise noted by author)

May 5, 2002

The NYPD took a beautiful, sunny day, and turned it into an arrest-fest
during Cures-Not-War's annual New York City Million Marijuana March on
Saturday, May 4, 2002. Police arrested 148 peaceful protesters and rally
attendees, all for marijuana-related offenses. Held in conjuncture with
nearly 200 other cities world-wide, the NYC event was a relative success in
that arrest numbers were down compared to recent years' events, and that
most attendees enjoyed the day, other than for being too paranoid to enjoy a
smoke in the sun so as to avoid arrest.

Some marchers gathered at 11 AM near Washington Square Park for a pre-march
ibogaine teach-in, then joined more protesters at Houston Street and
Broadway for the march through downtown Manhattan along Broadway to Battery
Park. Stretching for 3 blocks, the parade of marchers carried banners and
signs, chanting, "No more fear, light it up here," "the mayor smokes pot and
he likes it a lot," and "father Bush and the CIA brought crack onto the
streets today." The parade route down Broadway was once again lined with
uniformed NYPD officers both on foot and on scooters, while plainclothes
officers kept their eyes and noses peeled for open civil disobedience.
snip-

Read Complete Article and search the photos to find yourself having fun in
the crowd, or bumming out under arrest, at the above URL.


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Toronto Canada MMM report. Found this here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41110

I'm a little weary for writing as I just got in, but I have to say
that the Toronto MMM was a huge success. There was a very impressive
turnout today. A fair sized stage had been setup in Nathan Philip
Square. Off to the side were a number of booths where venders and
Compassion Clubs were quite busy. The march began just after 2:00,
heading west on Queen Street, around a block at Spadina to get back
on Queen to return to the square. I'd say there was a half a
kilometer or so of peaceful traffic stopping, legalization chanters
and marching tokers. The round trip took about an hour. Leading this
most colorful event were Professor Alan Young and his pot loving dog
Salem, Alison Myrden and Gary, The Weed King "with his big banner",
Boris St. Maurice, and myself. The city was having a real hoot
watching us. Horns were beeping non-stop. We went right past 'City
TV' studio and gave them a good show.
When we got back to the `Square' we heard some great speakers
starting with Alan Young. As well we all enjoyed some really kick ass
live music all day.
At 4:20, the `Weed King' lights up this monster of a reefer he
created out of 70gms of killer bud, the first half being Blueberry,
the second half California Indica. What a smoker that baby was, and
it sure drew a crowd of eager participants.
I think the police may have been surprised at the number of people.
There were not many cops compared to the amount of people. The great
thing was that it all went down so smoothly and peacefully. We
provided our own (tour guides:) security people with guide ropes to
keep everyone to the one side of the road. We kept to our lane and it
was all too kewl the way it went down. It was a very well organized
happening and I should think next year will be bigger and better.


=====
peace:-)==U```
Steven

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.-
Rudyard
Kipling

Message #41122 posted by ozone again (Info) May 06, 2002 11:27:59 ET
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41122

FROM < http://www.sodaknorml.org/ >

Below is the story which ran today (Sun. 5, May, 2002) about the
Rapid City Segment of the Million Marijuana March. This is from the
Rapid City (SD) Journal.

From other press reports I've seen from around the nation, the Rapid
City MMM was at least as well-attended as many marches in much larger
cities.

And, for the record, I didn't lead a chant which said "Here to keep
cops off kids." I never even heard that specific chant. We chanted,
several times, "Stop putting peaceful honest people in jail simply
for trying to feel better." And, a couple of times, "We're here.
We're high. Get used to it." (the marchers really seemed to like that
one)

There are several inaccuracies in the story below, but they're less
significant than the one I just mentioned.

Vaya con Dios en Cinco de Mayo!

Bob Newland


=================================

Pot supporters parade Saturday

By Jan Kaus, Northern Hills Bureau

RAPID CITY -- More than 300 marchers took to Sixth Street in Rapid
City Saturday afternoon to show their support for efforts to reform
marijuana laws and legalize its use.

Proponents said that people in more than 160 cities around the world
would stage similar marches in parades collectively known as the
Million Marijuana March.

Rapid City's event was organized and led by marijuana/hemp proponent
Bob Newland of Hermosa, president of SoDakNORML, an affiliate of the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

"Our position is that public policy concerning marijuana is a
disaster," Newland said before the march. "If we stimulate people to
voice their fears, angers or misgivings on public policy dealing with
marijuana, we'll succeed. By that definition, we've already
succeeded. And we won't stop until we get them to stop putting people
in jail simply for trying to feel better."

Marchers carried posters urging reform of marijuana laws. Messages
included, "Educate and regulate, don't incarcerate." Newland led
chants such as, "Here to keep cops off kids."

And despite earlier concerns by Rapid City School District officials
over the starting point of the march — at Sixth and Columbus streets
in front of Dakota Middle School — no protesters were seen.

This was the sixth year for the march but the first for Rapid City.
Newland said it's the best-known single international event centered
on the cannabis plant, and he called Saturday a day of protest
against putting people in jail.

"Its timing served us well," he added, referring to legislative
efforts the coalition is sponsoring and petition signatures being
gathered Saturday.

"We have to turn in enough signatures Tuesday to get the issue of
legalizing industrial hemp on the ballot for the November election."

Marchers were more than happy to share their views on why they want
hemp legalized — although most chose to share only their first names.

"Vince" was visiting Newland from Florida, so he joined the march. He
said he feels most politicians choose to fight the marijuana issue
simply to give an impression that they're doing something.

"They've chosen to fight something that goes against what most people
say is not a battle to be fought," Vince said. He added, "A good
percentage of people have smoked pot or do it now, so if those people
are fighting this, then they are hypocrites. At least there's a few
individuals that will still stand for something."

Another marcher, who identified himself as Garry, said he thinks
marijuana has good points and bad points. "I believe it's useful to a
certain extent if you don't abuse it. If you abuse it, it'll use
you."

Marchers represented a cross-section of the population, some with
children in tow. The march ended without incident at Memorial Park.



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Just a quick message about the Eugene rally. I wanted
to thank everybody for all of your tireless efforts.
Dana, and all. I feel that this is the year we can
finally do it. We all need to stick together and push
on through.
The fact that Danbo was arrested is only testimony to
how affraid the establishment is. Heck, even the so
called liberal media wouldn't even mention me in their
stories, and I am running for Governor! So it is no
wonder that the city of Eugene would send six armed
SWAT cops to arrest one man. And they were swat cops,
they had the little logo on their uniforms, whether
they were officially acting as a SWAT team isn't know.
But the fact they were all wearing a SWAT logo says it
all. But what really makes me laugh is how they
totally underestimated the power of the people once
again. They thought because they arrested one man,
that that would stop our event. But as soon as they
took Danbo away, there were two others to jump into
his job at that time(setting up the stage) and they
event happened anyway. And this is what we must do
every time. If they take somebody there will be at
least two to replace that fallen activist.
So please everybody, get together as much support as
possible, and keep it rallied around us and maybe, in
November at least in Oregon we will see a new day, a
better future when I am elected.
Spread the word,
richforgov.com
Richard Alevizos
alevizos.richard@...

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Found this here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41111

I am happy to report that today's rally on Parliament Hill was one of
the more successful pot protests held here in recent years. Key
organizer and medical exemptee Don Appleby looked tired but pleased
at the turnout. During the past few weeks, Don has juggled hospital
visits with organizing today's event. An estimated five to seven
hundred protesters basked in the warm sun, smoked cannabis and
listened to speeches from medicinal marijuana exemptees Rob Brown,
Johnny Dupuis and Rick Reimer (who is currently challenging impaired
driving charges based upon his cannabis use). Eugene Oscapella from
the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy also addressed the crowd.
Federal Health Minister McLellan and Justice Minister Cauchon did not
come to speak, though they were invited by Mr. Reimer to do so.
A handful of RCMP officer watched over the proceedings but the
cameras that had filmed previous events were not apparent this time.
Congratulations and thank you to all involved in staging this event.
A special thanks goes out to Greg and Bruce from Doozy Candle and
Hemp Solution for their invaluable assistance in postering the city
over the past few days and for drumming up musicians to play at the
event.


Mike Foster
Crosstown Traffic
Ottawa

Organization: Techno Junk and Grey Matter & Mild Green Initiative
mildgreens.com

To: mayday@yahoogroups.com, "alcp forum" <forum@...>, "Dana
Beal" <dana@...>, "Mild Greens"
<mildgreens@...>

CC: drctalk@..., mmmfriend@..., hemp-talk@...,
drugwarnews@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Newland" <newland@...>,
"Cannabis Culture Magazine" <archives@...>, "CCLR
(email)" <cclr-public@yahoogroups.com>, "Chris Fowlie"
<chris@...>, "Clifford Wallace Thornton, Jr."
<Efficacy@...>, "Cognitive Liberty" <rgb@...>,
"David Glenn" <tanfram@...>, "GlobalUplift MMM May4th List"
<GlobalUplift@yahoogroups.com>, "Nandor Tanczos"
<nandor.tanczos@...>, "NORML NZ & The Hemp Store
Aotearoa" <hempstor@...>

From: "Blair Anderson" <blair@...>

Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:02:52 +1200

Subject: [mayday] Christchurch NZ newpaper reports

Reply-to: mayday@yahoogroups.com


(requires acrobat reader... )

see Christchurch NZ MayDay- JayDay report in "The Citizen"
newspaper,
http://www.thecitizen.co.nz/050602/index05.htm

sig.   Blair Anderson

techno junk and grey matter    (est 1977)
corporate technology consultant.
mailto:blair@...

Mild Green Media Centre         phone ++64 3 389-4065
Web site   http://www.mildgreens.com
News forum   news://www.reddfish.co.nz/alcp

"Blairs Brain on Cannabis" PlainsFM 96.9 every Wed 10:00pm
mailto: blair@...

Set aside moral cowardice, adopt harm minimisation; it's the
stuff of social capital.

============================================================
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M    Come to the
M M M M M M    M M M M M M    M M M M M M   INTERNATIONAL
M M M M M M    M M M M M M    M M M M M M      MILLION
M M  M  M M    M M  M  M M    M M  M  M M     MARIJUANA
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M       MARCH
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M    May 1, 1999
============================================================



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The URL at the end leads to the article online. Otago Daily Times is
listed at the end of the article there.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/print/0,1103,1190379a3845,FF.html

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Organization: Techno Junk and Grey Matter & Mild Green Initiative
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To: mayday@yahoogroups.com, "alcp forum" <forum@...>, "Dana
Beal" <dana@...>, "Mild Greens"
<mildgreens@...>, drctalk@...,
mmmfriend@..., hemp-talk@...,
drugwarnews@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Newland" <newland@...>,
"Cannabis Culture Magazine" <archives@...>, "CCLR
(email)" <cclr-public@yahoogroups.com>, "Chris Fowlie"
<chris@...>, "Clifford Wallace Thornton, Jr."
<Efficacy@...>, "Cognitive Liberty" <rgb@...>,
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"Nandor Tanczos" <nandor.tanczos@...>, "NORML NZ & The
Hemp Store Aotearoa" <hempstor@...>

CC: "420 News / Global Revolutions" <Editor@...>,
"eco man" <tents444@...>, "efficacy" <efficacy@...>

From: "Blair Anderson" <blair@...>

Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 12:35:58 +1200

Subject: [mayday] Dunedin NZ Pot smoked in Octagon during protest


MONDAY, 06 MAY 2002


Pot smoked in Octagon during protest
06 MAY 2002 / By JANE SMITH

About 200 people sat smoking cannabis in the Octagon on
Saturday to mark the annual J-Day protest against the
prohibition of cannabis.

J-Day stands for Joint Day.

National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML) representative Duncan Eddy said the gathering was to
show opposition to cannabis prohibition, support for
rational cannabis laws and displeasure at the length of time
it was taking the select committee reviewing cannabis laws
to publish its recommendations.

Several speakers addressed the crowd, postcards were given
out to be sent to MPs and people were encouraged to get on
the electoral roll, then use their vote to support
cannabis law reform.

"The main thing is coming together to indulge in an act of
civil disobedience in response to an unjust law," Mr Eddy
said.

"I think the government needs a really clear message from
the people that we are sick of being treated this way."

While no police officers came along to break up the protest,
the protesters were eventually forced to move along by
strong winds.

see
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/print/0,1103,1190379a3845,FF.html



sig.   Blair Anderson

techno junk and grey matter    (est 1977)
corporate technology consultant.
mailto:blair@...

Mild Green Media Centre         phone ++64 3 389-4065
Web site   http://www.mildgreens.com
News forum   news://www.reddfish.co.nz/alcp

"Blairs Brain on Cannabis" PlainsFM 96.9 every Wed 10:00pm
(resumes February)
mailto: blair@...

Set aside moral cowardice, adopt harm minimisation; it's the
stuff of social capital.

============================================================
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M    Come to the
M M M M M M    M M M M M M    M M M M M M   INTERNATIONAL
M M M M M M    M M M M M M    M M M M M M      MILLION
M M  M  M M    M M  M  M M    M M  M  M M     MARIJUANA
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M       MARCH
M M     M M    M M     M M    M M     M M    May 1, 1999
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2 reports are here. Laddering was removed from the second report. So
this message is easy to forward and read.

MMM Eugene Oregon. Peace March against the Drug War.
The following forwarded messages are in the MMM public archives here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/8  and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/9

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To: cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com

From: "ramillegan" <RAMillegan@...>

Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:27:15 -0000

Subject: [MMM] Peace March against the Drug War, Eugene, Oregon

Reply-to: cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com


Three hundred to 400 people marched in the streets of Eugene,
and over 500 people joined in at the rally for Eugene's Third
Annual Peace March against the Drug War held Saturday May
4th.

This event was part of a worldwide protest that happened in 198
cities.

The day was a beautiful sunny day with some breeze that at
times wafted the weed through the crowd of courageous,
concerned citizens.

The march began at 24th and Amazon Parkway where
supporters gathered informally and listened to music and were
treated to a free barbecue prepared on ecological-friendly
hydrogen grills. People prepared signs with various slogans to
carry or were able to choose from the many pre-made placards.
There were people of all ages including many families with
children. Some folks wore costumes and there was even a
human powered parade float.

Marchers left Amazon Park along the bike path and hit the streets
at 19th Avenue where we picked up our paid City of Eugene
police escort. The police were quite surprised at the size of our
crowd. An officer had come up to 24th Avenue gathering place
about 15 minutes before the march began and there were
about125 folks there then. Well, in the last few minutes, it was
just amazing, people just started arriving from every direction
and soon we had a crowd of over three hundred people as we
left the park. Because of the size of the crowd the police gave us
the whole street to march in instead of regulating us to just one
lane as in years past.

Along they way we gathered more people and had myriad
number of car horns in support. A very emotional moment was
when the marchers reached 11th Avenue and Brother Elisha,
who walks with a cane joined to lead the marchers on down the
street.

Amid clapping and cheers the marchers proceeded through the
Saturday Market and onto the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza
at the Lane County Couthouse. Marchers were greeted by the
band, The Thirteenth Tribe playing a rousing version of Peter
Tosh's Get-Up Stand-Up and Legalize-it.

During the rally folks heard from many different people, including
Richard Alevizos, who is running for Governor on a pro-hemp
platform, testimony from medical marijuana users and verses
from the Bible among others.

After the speakers, Abakadubi played a joyous, tight two-hour set
to a very appreciative crowd.

A big message from the rally was to sign the various petitions
and vote and liberate the plant.

Another theme of the rally was the arrest of "Danbo" a local
Cannabis activist by six armed police earlier in the day. Dan has
been expressing to the police his views on the unconstitutional
nature of the Drug War and has been very open about his
freedom as a citizen to have relationship with a plant that comes
from God.

This was a "power-trip" by the members of the Eugene police
force. They knew where Dan lived. If all they wished to do was to
arrest him that could have been done anytime. This arrogance
and misuse of police power may come cost the City of Eugene
dearly.

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From: "ramillegan" <RAMillegan@...>

Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 22:45:52 -0000

Subject: [MMM] Re: Peace March against the Drug War, Eugene, Oregon

Reply-to: cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com


from DPFOR list
-----

Wohoo!

What a great day for a Million Marijuana March here in Eugene. I
haven't read the news report yet but I guesstimate the crowd was
around 600-800 folks by the time we reached downtown.

A beautiful day and enthusiastic marchers made this year's event a
grand success. When we got into downtown the roar of our chant:

"what do we want?"

"DRUG PEACE!"

"when do we want it?"

"NOW!"

echoed off the walls of the buildings and was loud as hell. This year
we had the COMPLETE attention of the Saturday Market crowd as we
passed through that area. Thanks to all who came and marched. Hats
off to Kris Milligan and Michael Anthony for leading the parade.

Thanks also to whomever provided the spliffs circulating among the
crowd at the Wayne Morse Free Speech area! The scene there was like
an old time Ganja Revival. The 13th Tribe provided inspirational
tunes that had the crowd dancing and grooving. I must be honest tho'
and say the "speakers" left a lot to be desired. Space Cowboy, the
big guy who mispronounced Dr. Levecque's name, and the uh, gentleman
(and I admit he wasn't an invited speaker), proclaiming "god's love
for us" were less than inspiring. So bad were those three in fact, I
will gladly volunteer my voice next year. (Gads I haven't done public
speaking in nearly 20 years but will help out if it keeps the orally
challenged off the stage).

Lets hope we don't have to have this MMMarch next year, but if we
do...
I'll see ya there.

allan

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Wohoo!

What a great day for a Million Marijuana March here in Eugene. I
haven't
read the news report yet but I guesstimate the crowd was around
600-800
folks by the time we reached downtown.

A beautiful day and enthusiastic marchers made this year's
event a grand
success. When we got into downtown the roar of our chant:

"what do we want?"

"DRUG PEACE!"

"when do we want it?"

"NOW!"

echoed off the walls of the buildings and was loud as hell. This
year we
had the COMPLETE attention of the Saturday Market crowd as
we passed
through that area. Thanks to all who came and marched. Hats off
to Kris
Milligan and Michael Anthony for leading the parade.

Thanks also to whomever provided the spliffs circulating among
the crowd
at the Wayne Morse Free Speech area! The scene there was like
an old
time Ganja Revival. The 13th Tribe provided inspirational tunes
that had
the crowd dancing and grooving. I must be honest tho' and say
the
"speakers" left a lot to be desired. Space Cowboy, the big guy
who
mispronounced Dr. Levecque's name, and the uh, gentleman
(and I admit he
wasn't an invited speaker), proclaiming "god's love for us" were
less
than inspiring. So bad were those three in fact, I will gladly
volunteer
my voice next year. (Gads I haven't done public speaking in
nearly 20
years but will help out if it keeps the orally challenged off the
stage).

Lets hope we don't have to have this MMMarch next year, but if we
do...
I'll see ya there.

allan

Three hundred to 400 people marched in the streets of Eugene,
and over 500 people joined in at the rally for Eugene's Third
Annual Peace March against the Drug War held Saturday May
4th.

This event was part of a worldwide protest that happened in 198
cities.

The day was a beautiful sunny day with some breeze that at
times wafted the weed through the crowd of courageous,
concerned citizens.

The march began at 24th and Amazon Parkway where
supporters gathered informally and listened to music and were
treated to a free barbecue prepared on ecological-friendly
hydrogen grills. People prepared signs with various slogans to
carry or were able to choose from the many pre-made placards.
There were people of all ages including many families with
children. Some folks wore costumes and there was even a
human powered parade float.

Marchers left Amazon Park along the bike path and hit the streets
at 19th Avenue where we picked up our paid City of Eugene
police escort. The police were quite surprised at the size of our
crowd. An officer had come up to 24th Avenue gathering place
about 15 minutes before the march began and there were
about125 folks there then. Well, in the last few minutes, it was
just amazing, people just started arriving from every direction
and soon we had a crowd of over three hundred people as we
left the park. Because of the size of the crowd the police gave us
the whole street to march in instead of regulating us to just one
lane as in years past.

Along they way we gathered more people and had myriad
number of car horns in support. A very emotional moment was
when the marchers reached 11th Avenue and Brother Elisha,
who walks with a cane joined to lead the marchers on down the
street.

Amid clapping and cheers the marchers proceeded through the
Saturday Market and onto the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza
at the Lane County Couthouse. Marchers were greeted by the
band, The Thirteenth Tribe playing a rousing version of Peter
Tosh's Get-Up Stand-Up and Legalize-it.

During the rally folks heard from many different people, including
Richard Alevizos, who is running for Governor on a pro-hemp
platform, testimony from medical marijuana users and verses
from the Bible among others.

After the speakers, Abakadubi played a joyous, tight two-hour set
to a very appreciative crowd.

A big message from the rally was to sign the various petitions
and vote and liberate the plant.

Another theme of the rally was the arrest of "Danbo" a local
Cannabis activist by six armed police earlier in the day. Dan has
been expressing to the police his views on the unconstitutional
nature of the Drug War and has been very open about his
freedom as a citizen to have relationship with a plant that comes
from God.

This was a "power-trip" by the members of the Eugene police
force. They knew where Dan lived. If all they wished to do was to
arrest him that could have been done anytime. This arrogance
and misuse of police power may come cost the City of Eugene
dearly.

Here are some photos from the NYC MMM march. One is a
compilation-montage of 4 photos that cryote stitched together from
photos at NYC Indymedia. To see the web pages with the larger
versions of the 4 photos click the first 4 links below:

http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23798
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23796
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23794
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23793

The knee-to-the-head thumbnail photo can be seen full size here:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23818

For links and thumbnails to many, many more NYC MMM photos:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23813


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Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 07:27:50 -0700 (PDT)

From:  "mick lambe PARIAH" <pariahnt@...>

Subject: Re: Fwd: Darwin Australia is another MMM city.

To: "eco man" <tents444@...>

eco man

Our report. Could you forward it to the appropriate people?

http://napnt.tripod.com/pages/Peoples-Embassy.a.htm

Thanks bro.


--- eco man <tents444@...> wrote:
> Hello Dana and Brian.
>
> Looks like people from the city of Darwin Australia
> sent this in. Check out their website. I hope they
> send in rally reports to you guys.
>
> --- Tripod Form Mailer <membership@...> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:35:17 -0400
> > From: Tripod Form Mailer <membership@...>
> > Subject: Results From Your Form
> >
> > The following data was submitted via your form:
> >
> > Name: mick lambe
> > Email: pariahnt@...
> > Comments: Hi people
> >
> > We are on
> >
> > http://napnt.tripod.com
> >
> > We will be staging a Ganja Day demo' at Darwin parliament house.
> >
> > We'd like to hear from you.
> >
> >
>
>


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People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands
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BETTER A PARIAH - THAN A LIAR
We support: NAP -- Network Against Prohibition (NT)
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MMM reports. UK, New Zealand. Video too. CannabisNews.com and more.

Here are some more MMM rally reports from the media. Rallies in the
UK, Scotland, Prague, and New Zealand. The source URLs were added to
the Cannabis News compilation below. Those source URLs are
interesting to click while they still work. Links for MMM Cannabis
Liberation Day May 4 2002 follow the article compilation. 197+ cities
worldwide and counting!!!

There is a related online video or slideshow clip. At various
download speeds. The clip covers New Zealand MMM rallies and uses
Windows Media Player on my PC. The links below seem to be audio-only
(at least the 56K one is for me).
56K: http://xtramsn.co.nz/musicandvideo/0,,6082-1373956-56,00.html
125K: http://xtramsn.co.nz/musicandvideo/0,,6082-1373956-125,00.html
300K: http://xtramsn.co.nz/musicandvideo/0,,6082-1373956-300,00.html
Video is added if the links are clicked from this page:
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/
The clip links are in the left column under TV3 News Clips.


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Condensed News Briefs from Around The World.
Posted by CN Staff on May 04, 2002 at 11:23:30 PT.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12732.shtml

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Thousands To Mark 'Cannabis Liberation Day'

Source: Huddersfield Daily UK.
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200nationalnews/page.cfm?

Thousands of people are marching in cities across the UK to mark
Cannabis Liberation Day. The Million Marijuana March is a worldwide
event involving people taking to the streets in nearly 200 cities
across the globe.

According to the organisation's website, marches are taking place in
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Hull, Sheffield
and Stafford.

In London the march, entitled Dance on the Grave of Cannabis
Prohibition, will go from Kennington Park to Brockwell Park, in south
London, where a festival is being held featuring live music, a
speakers tent and food stalls.

Across the world marches are taking place in more than 30 countries
including the US, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany,
Switzerland and France.

Scotland Yard said this was the fourth time the march had taken place
in London.

A spokesman said: "Police have been in close consultation with the
organisers and they have ensured police that participants will remain
within the law during the march.

"If participants are found smoking cannabis they will be asked to
stop. In previous years the event has been peaceful and good
natured."

Last year, around 15,000 people took part in the march, according to
police.

Source: Huddersfield Daily (UK)
Published: May 4 2002
Copyright: Trinity Mirror Plc 2002
Website: http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/
Contact: http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/1300contactus

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Pro-Cannabis Activists Hit City’s Streets.
http://www.edinburghnews.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=481112002

Pro-Cannabis campaigners are to take to the streets in Edinburgh in a
bid to raise awareness to legalise the drug.

Members of Legalise Cannabis Campaign Scotland will be petitioning on
Princes Street to seek more support on Monday.

Linda Hendry, LCCS spokeswoman, said: "We want to raise awareness in
the fight to legalise cannabis because the present proposal to make
it a C class drug does not mean it is legal.

"The penalties would only be halved if the law was changed to make it
a C class drug."

Their plans come as thousands of people were today expected to march
in various cities across the UK to mark Cannabis Liberation Day.

The Million Marijuana March is a worldwide event involving people
taking to the streets in nearly 200 cities across the globe.

Marches were due to take place in London, Manchester, Birmingham and
Liverpool.

Across the world marches are taking place in more than 30 countries
including the US, New Zealand, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Source: Edinburgh Evening News (UK)
Published: May 4, 2002
Copyright: 2002 The Scotsman Publications Ltd
Contact: lettersen@...
Website: http://www.edinburghnews.com/

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Thousands To Mark 'Cannabis Liberation Day'
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/livenews/page.cfm?objectid=11843680&method=full

Thousands of people are marching in cities across the UK to mark
Cannabis Liberation Day.

The Million Marijuana March is a worldwide event involving people
taking to the streets in nearly 200 cities across the globe.

According to the organisation's website, marches are taking place in
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Hull, Sheffield
and Stafford.

In London the march, entitled Dance on the Grave of Cannabis
Prohibition, will go from Kennington Park to Brockwell Park, in south
London, where a festival is being held featuring live music, a
speakers tent and food stalls.

Across the world marches are taking place in more than 30 countries
including the US, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany,
Switzerland and France.

Scotland Yard said this was the fourth time the march had taken place
in London.

A spokesman said: "Police have been in close consultation with the
organisers and they have ensured police that participants will remain
within the law during the march.

"If participants are found smoking cannabis they will be asked to
stop. In previous years the event has been peaceful and good
natured."

Last year, around 15,000 people took part in the march, according to
police.

Source: Sunday Mail.com (UK)
Published: May 4, 2002
Website: http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/
Contact: http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/contactus/

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Thousand Gather To Support Legalization of Marijuana.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020504/ap_wo_en_ge/czech_mar\
\ijuana_1

About 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a central Prague park to
support the legalization of marijuana.

Michal Polak, spokesman for the rally's organizers, said they sought
a change in Czech legislation that would put marijuana on a par with
alcohol and tobacco. Now, illegal possession and distribution of
narcotics is punishable by up to 15 years in jail.

Polak said the rally participants did not want to encourage people to
consume or distribute drugs, but were expressing criticism of the
Czech penal code, which does not distinguish between hard and
so-called "soft" drugs.

"To grow the plant should not be prohibited by law," Polak said.

In 2000, an estimated 25 tons of cannabis was consumed in the Czech
Republic, according to an estimate by the national Statistical
Institute.

Similar gatherings took place in two other Czech cities, Plzen and
Brno, Polak said.

Prague, Czech Republic

Source: Associated Press
Published: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Copyright: 2002 Associated Press

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Marijuana Campaigners Rally
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/pop_news.asp?iscID=1&irnID=8612

Today is J-Day and marijuana law reformers in more than 190 cities
around the world will be holding rallies calling for
decriminalisation of the drug.

In this country, J-Day rallies will take place in Auckland,
Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Auckland organiser Mike Harding says J-Day is about coming out and
showing support for cannabis law reform.

He says 30 people are arrested every day for cannabis possession,
though he claims the drug is safer than alcohol or tobacco.

Mr Harding says cannabis and drug use is something which too often is
swept under the carpet.

He says politicians need to sit up and take notice of the issues
surrounding cannabis use.

Source: IRN
Published: May 4, 2002
IRN Limited Copyright 2001 IRN Limited

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---end of articles in Cannabis News page----

***********************************

----another New Zealand article begins---

J-DAY
UPDATED: 08:19PM SATURDAY 4 MAY
http://www.tv3.co.nz/news/news_info.cfm?news_id=12539&news_category_id=1

Marijuana advocates celebrated their fifth annual "J-Day" around the
country, calling on the Government to legalise cannabis.

In Auckland, hundreds gathered in Albert Park to listen to music and
share in a favored past time.

Organisers say the purpose behind "J-Day" is to highlight the
injustice of criminalising cannabis.

Among the attendees was Green MP Nandor Tanchos, who encouraged
people arrested on cannabis charges, to protest by clogging the court
system.

Similar "J-Day" celebrations are being held around the world, in over
180 cities.

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-----MMM Cannabis 2002 cities, links, reports, etc.-----

197+ cities worldwide and counting!!!
Cannabis Liberation Day. May 4 2002.
4th annual Million Marijuana March (MMM).
Against the global drug war.
No Global Police State.
Free the Prisoners of Drug War.

*MMM 2002 EVENT NAVIGATOR.
Cannabis Liberation Day. It lists the
names of nearly all of the MMM cities
worldwide on one page. In alphabetical
order. With the state and country names
also. Click any city in the alphabetical list to
see the contact and rally info for that city:
This is a great new web page:
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/navigator.php

*The main page for the continually-updated,
clickable, all-on-one-page, alphabetical city
list for MMM 2002, Cannabis Liberation Day,
is at the page here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2002.htm   and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2002.htm   and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2002.htm

Email address for sending in MMM reports, photos. Anybody can use this address.
There is no need to subscribe to anything first.
  cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com
Messages sent to this email address will end up in this Public MMM archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages

Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and to Cannabis News at submissions@...
where they will be posted at:
http://www.cannabisnews.com

*FoM of Cannabis News has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally reports:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

*CannabisNews - Cannabis Archives. MMM rally reports may show up here first
before showing up in the FoM compilation page above.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml

For now, MMM is one of the top features at New York City Indymedia and Italy
Indymedia.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/  and
http://italy.indymedia.org/
There is a rough translation of the Italy feature here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41080

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MMM World Cannabis Action Day May 4 2002. 197+ cities worldwide and counting!!!

Here is a BBC News UK article with video links.

Don't forget to check out the latest MMM links after the BBC info below.

Source: BBC News UK
Webpage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1967000/1967690.stm

The videos are linked in the right column on the side of the BBC article. They
use the free Real Player.

Manchester UK rally.
The BBC's Lucy Atherton
"The event passed off peacefully"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/video/_1968119_cannabis18_atherton_vi.ram

Manchester Cannabis Coalition Jonjo Nally
"I have been really overwhelmed by the amount of support"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1965000/video/_1968119_march12_nally_vi.ram

Note: There are many other great links on the BBC page, too. About cannabis
reform that has been happening in the UK and around the world.

-----------

-----MMM Cannabis 2002 press release-----

197+ cities worldwide and counting!!!
Cannabis Liberation Day. May 4 2002.
4th annual Million Marijuana March (MMM).
Against the global drug war.
No Global Police State.
Free the Prisoners of Drug War.

*MMM 2002 EVENT NAVIGATOR.
Cannabis Liberation Day. It lists the
names of nearly all of the MMM cities
worldwide on one page. In alphabetical
order. With the state and country names
also. Click any city in the alphabetical list to
see the contact and rally info for that city:
This is a great new web page:
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/navigator.php

*The main page for the continually-updated,
clickable, all-on-one-page, alphabetical city
list for MMM 2002, Cannabis Liberation Day,
is at the page here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2002.htm   and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2002.htm   and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2002.htm

Email address for sending in MMM reports, photos. Anybody can use this address.
There is no need to subscribe to anything first.
  cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com
Messages sent to this email address will end up in this Public MMM archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages

Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to Dana Beal
dana@...  and to Cannabis News at submissions@...
where they will be posted at:
http://www.cannabisnews.com

*FoM of Cannabis News has a compilation of links to MMM 2002 rally reports:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

*CannabisNews - Cannabis Archives. MMM rally reports may show up here first
before showing up in the FoM compilation page above.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml

For now, MMM is one of the top features at New York City Indymedia and Italy
Indymedia.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/  and
http://italy.indymedia.org/
There is a rough translation of the Italy feature here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41080

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From: "Max Stone" <aclrm@...>

To: tents444@..., "DRCTalk Reformers' Forum" <drctalk@...>

CC: mmmfriend@..., mayday@yahoogroups.com, drugwarnews@yahoogroups.com,
hemp-talk@..., "Nimbin H.E.M.P. Embassy" <hemp@...>

Subject: MMM Report Nimbin Australia

Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 11:14:00 -0700

Organization: Australian Cannabis Law Reform Movement


webgreetings

It is as impossible to guesstimate the size of the roll up for the 2002
Nimbin MMMMarch as it is to guesstimate the total inhalance of cannabis
during the MardiGrass Protestival, but every number I have heard so far is
in excess of 4 and 20 thousand cannabists! As usual in Nimbin, we din't
march in a straight line, in fact, truth be told, we din't actually march at
all, not much point even trying really, I mean even attempting to marshal
the entire MardiGrass crowd to march from point A - via point B -to point C
would be harder than herding 420 black cats at midnight and so, we decided
to ask the entire crowd (via the loud speakers) to take one step forward,
then three steps back, two steps forward and then one step back (a little
semi-dance step thing we call the 'real pace' of cannabis law reform) which
of course resulted in as much confusion as marshalling a march or changing
an illogical law, point is that thousands upon thousands of people come
together every year in Nimbin for exactly the same reason. To call for an
End to Cannabis Prohibition.

http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/mardigrass2002/mmmarch.html

words assembled by Max Stone,
the non official smokesperson from
the extreme edge of radical fringe of the
Australian Cannabis Law Reform Movement
http://www.nimbinaustralia.com/aclrm


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Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:13:04 -0500

To: tents444@...

From: "Bob Ramsey" <b.rmz@...>

Subject: Re: MMM reports.


Here are a few snapshots from today's Million Marijuana March in
Dallas from 4:20-6pm CDT.


http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mm3198.jpg  184K

http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mmm3198.jpg   88K

http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mmm3208.jpg  216K

http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mmm3209.jpg  172K

http://home1.gte.net/res0kzdq/images/mmm3214.jpg  169K



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==Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you?==
b.rmz@... (Bob Ramsey)
http://www.dpft.org/   http://www.DrugSense.org
==Repeal prohibition before prohibition repeals you==


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Please forward.

cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com for MMM reports, photos. No need
to subscribe. Public archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages

New MMM (Million Marijuana March) Yahoo Group with Public
Archive. For MMM Cannabis Liberation Day rally reports, ideas,
info, city lists, photos, etc.. Anybody, including non-members,
can post. Send email to cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com and feel
free to forward MMM-related email to this public archive and
public record of MMM Cannabis Action success worldwide!!

Group Name: Million Marijuana March. Cannabis Action
Group Email Address:  cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com
Homepage Address:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/
Archive: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/messages

Posting: Anyone can post
Moderation: Unmoderated
Attachments: Email attachments are permitted  {great for sending
in photos!)

Group Description:

Around 200 cities worldwide and counting!!!
Cannabis Liberation Day. First Saturday in May.
Million Marijuana March (MMM). Worldwide since 1999.
Against the global drug war.
No Global Police State.
Free the Prisoners of Drug War.

Anybody, including non-members, can post. Send email to
cannabisaction@yahoogroups.com

The archive is public. Please post your MMM rally reports, MMM
websites, etc.. Please put your city as the first word in the
subject title of your emails.

Yahoo Groups allows members to see messages in digest form, as
individual messages, or in the public web archive only. Feel
free to send stuff you think the group members would be
interested in. Feel free to subscribe if you want to receive
list mail. The membership list is private, and is only seen by
the moderator.

Off-topic posts will be deleted from the public archive. The
archive is for public access to MMM-related info.

*The main page for the continually-updated,
clickable, all-on-one-page, alphabetical city
list for MMM 2002, Cannabis Liberation Day,
is at the page here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mmm2002.htm   and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mmm2002.htm   and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmm2002.htm

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Please also send in personal or published MMM rally reports to
Dana Beal dana@...  and to Cannabis News at
submissions@... where they will be posted at:
http://www.cannabisnews.com

*FoM of Cannabis News has a compilation of links to MMM 2002
rally reports:
http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm

*CannabisNews - Cannabis Archives. MMM rally reports may show up
here first before showing up in the FoM compilation page above.
http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml

For now, MMM is one of the top features at New York City
Indymedia and Italy Indymedia.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/  and
http://italy.indymedia.org/
There is a rough translation of the Italy feature here:
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x41080

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