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Moscow MMM photo compilation is awesome:
http://grani.ru/Events/m.69130.html and it is discussed at
this global forum thread:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?&Number=849446

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http://grani.ru/Society/Health/m.69123.html

"world hemp march" in Moscow: 65 demonstrators are delayed

On Tuesday in Moscow on by Star Arbat passed that forbidden by the prefecture of central region "world hemp march". As reports correspondent Graney.Ru from the place of events, to manifestantsiyu were assembled 100-200 people.

The beginning of measure passed quietly; however, then the police, beginning to break to the demonstrators of hand, it delayed 65 people.

the article
	"world hemp march" in Moscow Photo report

As soobshchil To interfaksu the chief for the administration of information and social bonds GUVD of the capital Cyril mazurin. "30 people was delivered in OVD" Arbat ", 21 people - into the 60th police department, 14 people - all minor - in OVD" Of khamovniki ". With respect to delayed sostavlyayutsya the protocols about the administrative offense, after which of disturbers of the peace they will let go on the houses ", skazal Of mazurin.

"world hemp march" - the international action, which simultaneously passes in hundred is municipal 0 0N throughout the world.

The prefecture of the central administrative region forbade conducting "hemp march" on the basis, that this action "disrupts the declaration of rights and freedoms of citizen" and it is the "propaganda of narcotics". The representatives of the organization committee of march stated that not tyuey ponimayut, as conducting march it can it destroyed whose- that of right, they were intended it turned into the law court.

One of the organizers, Vitalius Melnikov, zayavil To granyam.Ru the day before, that about the action was opoveshcheny too many, and information about the prohibition after sending too late. It not isklyuchil, that people can it arrived to Arabat, and therefore organizers must them it met and it elucidated situation. Organizers hoped that it met it proydet without the excesses they stated that they were ready it bore responsibility for the actions of those, who there soberetsya. They also expressed hope that tyuey sumeyut it attained permission was conducted a similar action for following yr.

March must byl it began into 15.00 on with Star Arbat near the monument to Damascus steel To okudzhave it was completed by the picket on Puskinskaya of area. The organization committee of rasschityval, that the action soberet about thousand people. Procession must was it passed under the slogan "it ended lie with respect to of hemp and its derivatives, it ended it censored the truthful and nezavisimoy information of that connected with the hemp, it ended the arrests of the users of hemp, it approached the medical use of a hemp and the wide production of textile and paper from the hemp raw material".

In this year in Moscow hemp march they planned it conducted for the first time. In the world this action proydet already seventh time. First march of sostoyalsya in America. Then, 97- m, many people they left on the invalid carriages from Boston to Washington - into the office of administration for foodstuffs and medicines (FDA) of the U.S. Government. Participants required that the oncologic patients they would allow would be used marijuana for medical purposes. After this, similar actions gave a ride around many cities of peace and developed into motion. They were replaced it aimed in seven years and the tasks of motion, but requirement, in the essence, are reduced moreover - it legalized marijuana.

04.05.2004 16:09

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MMM reports, media articles, archives, and links to more:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmreports Archive. Several years.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmreports/messages/45 2004 reports archive.
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/mmmreports.htm Links to other archives.
http://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+OR+cannabis Google News shortcuts.
http://news.google.com/news?q=marijuana+OR+cannabis+rally+OR+protest+OR+festival+OR+march
http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2004.htm 2004 city list. Links lead to reports.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=current Reports forum.
http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmmimages.htm Images archive and links.

350+ MMM cities worldwide since 1999! For city list:
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