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Re: NYC's marijuana march and liberation party

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On Friday, April 30, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Eboka wrote:
> NYC's million marijuana march will form just below/south/downtown of Washington
> Square Park between 11 and 
> 1 pm, Saturday, May 1, at which time the crowds will move to broadway, turn
> down town and march towards Battery Park, passing City Hall to give the Mayor
> the Raspberries for his anti pot/anti methadone positions and then enjoy the
> next four hours listening to music and speakers at Battery Park at the lower
> tip of Manhattan.
> 
> There are a number of issues involved in this March with a history approaching
> 30 years.  Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers smoke marijuana, possibly a
> million or more.  Lets recognize these people as the ritious folk they are and
> get rid of dangerous marijuana prohibition laws.  There is also the dispute
> between the Mayor who wants a no tolerance NY and the people of this city and
> the PBA whos say enough is enough, lets lay back a little and enjoy our lower
> crime rates.  Lets have a police force of, by and for the people.  
> 
> If NYC allowed referendums, the anti marijuana laws would be history.   A Dutch
> style approach to marijuana in NYC would be an enormous economic boon to the
> city and small mom and pop smoke shopes just it is in Amsterdam.  
> 
> Join the parade and march.  Join the celebration at Battery Park from 2:00 pm -
> 6 PM.  Have a pleasant day.
> 
> Please find below a post from the Washington DC organizers of that City's MMM
> march and event.
> ==================================================
> For inforamtion on the international Million Marijana March 
> (http://www.cures-not-wars.org/mmm ) being held that day in
> 
> over a dozen cities worldwide to overcome the historical fraud on the US
> Congress by which hemp/cannabis has been outlawed as marijuana (since
> hemp/cannabis prohibition began in 1937 to protect financial interests in the
> paper and chemical industries) and has been targeted by Federal authorities
> with a cynical Drug War in which the truth has been censored from the public
> and this valuable natural medicine is outlawed while the CIA has by its own
> admission been complicit in smuggling cocaine and heroin into the US while
> health authorities continue to stonewall legalization of the Ibogaine antidote
> to addiction, <http://www.ibogaine.org>.
> 
> 
> 
> Medical marijuana has been legalized in numerous States by ballot initiative
> but in California police have stepped up arrests and property forfeitures to
> profit the US prison/industrial complex and to fund increasing police brutality
> while in Washington, DC, a misguided Congress pushed by Barr has passed
> specific legislation to prohibit the counting of the vote last November to
> legalize medical marijuana in which exit polls showed 70% passage.  Mr. Ruppert
> is scheduled to speak at 2:30PM to the "March on Washington '99" and is
> expected to detail the CIA confession and to mention the need to end the
> cynical war on drugs by facing the truth about the marijuana issue.
> 
> 
> 
> The CIA Inspector General's Report Volume 2, held secret for a year and
> released to Congress one hour after impeachment procedings started,
> acknowledges CIA involvement in hard drug smuggling but Congressional hearings
> called for by Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters have been stalled and the
> report obscured from public view, first by the impeachment process and now by
> the War against Yugoslavia. (details on this report at http://www.copvcia.com )
> 
> 
> 
> Grassroots activists on Saturday have vowed to "get in Barr's face" during his
> scheduled speech at 12:10 PM at the Ellipse near the White House.  They will be
> carrying Million Marijuana March and I-59 (DC's medical marijuana initiative)
> signs at the Ellipse gathering and some patients will be provoking arrest by
> ingesting medical marijuana using vaporizers recommended by the recent report
> from the Institute of Medicine, the latest in a number of Federally
> commissioned reports favorable to marijuana which have been
> 
> disavowed by the US Government that sponsored them. (more info at
> 
> http://www.jackherer.com and http://www.chrisconrad.com )
> 
> 
> 
> The secrecy policies of our society on these issues not only contribute to
> growing domestic violence and wars around the world, but by now also endanger
> the future of all life on Earth due to environmental degradation from
> deforestation and combustion of fossil fuels.  The obscured facts clearly prove
> the need for a global scale revival of the USDA 1941-45 Hemp for Victory
> program for the environmental-emergency-level widespread cultivation of this
> most valuable plant in human history for its superior bioefficiency to heal the
> atmosphere, to save the remaining trees from deforestation, and for the overall
> majority of Earth's paper, fiber, food, biofuels to replace fossil fuels,
> medicines, chemical feedstocks, and
> 
> composite construction materials.  The fraudulent drug policies against
> hemp/cannabis/marijuana are an incidental obstacle to saving life on Earth from
> increasingly devastating climate change and the ozone layer depletion
> (exacerbated by reduction of oxygen levels due to fossil fuel combustion) that
> threatens destruction over the next nine years of all oceanic phytoplankton
> (the one-celled plants at the beginning of the oceanic foodchain that produce
> over half of Earth's oxygen supply).  (more info and links at 
> http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 ) "Never attribute to malice that which
> can be adequately explained by stupidity"
> 
> The recent study by the Institute of Medicine, the IOM, concluded the
> following: Marijuana does not have a high potential for abuse and has accepted
> medical use in the United States, Among recreational drugs, marijuana has a
> lower potential for abuse than alcohol or tobacco,
> Pot is not addictive and does not serve as a gateway to hard drug abuse and,
> Marijuana is especially useful in alleviating a wide range of medical
> conditions, especially nausea in chemotherapy patients, the wasting syndrome of
> AIDS patients and muscle spasms for people with multiple sclerosis.
> 
> Given these facts, it appears that there is no legitimate basis for
> marijuana prohibition. It's time for an objective review of state and
> federal marijuana laws. It's time for a change.

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