Someday this will happen in New Hampshire.

[FTL_Ian]

 

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070505/marijuana_march_070505/20070505?hub=TopStories

About 20,000 marchers smoke up for freer pot laws

Updated Sat. May. 5 2007 6:54 PM ET

toronto.ctv.ca

Some 20,000 marijuana advocates blew smoke on the lawn of Queen's Park and puffed away as they marched the streets of Toronto on Saturday.

The participants, taking part in the ninth annual Global Marijuana March being held in 232 cities, rallied to promote the legalization of pot in Canada.

Police watched the peaceful event, whose parade marshal was Marc Emery, the British Columbia resident nicknamed Canada's "Prince of Pot."

"It's incredible that 20,000 people are meeting only 100 yards from the legislature to demand that marijuana be legalized, to celebrate our culture and to defy the law with almost open sanction of the entire City of Toronto," he said.

Emery is in trouble with United States law enforcement agencies for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet. He faces extradition to stand trial on a number of criminal matters.

Toronto's rally almost doubled in size this year, as about 12,000 residents openly smoked up during last year's event.

"This is obviously its largest," said organizer Neev Tapiro.

Tapiro said the movement for freer marijuana laws has support in high places.

"One of the positive lights is Senator Larry Campbell, who's a wonderful, intelligent advocate of legalization," Tapiro said.

Organizers said the annual event in Canada continues to grow because the majority of Canadians believe pot laws should be relaxed.

Pot walk participants also spread the message that the demonized marijuana plant can do much more than just get people high.

"I have arthritis so it alleviates the pain," said one man named Dennis.  "I don't get (the pain) very often because (the marijuana is) better than ordinary medication they prescribe."

[penguins4me]

Meet the new Prohibition, same as the old Prohibition.

I was about to say that I don't consume any drug, excepting painkillers after surgery, etc., but then I examined the label on my soda bottle and caffeine is printed right there. Regardless, whose body is it, anyway? Who gave the gov't authority over what I choose to do with my body? :P

Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, good - cannabis, et al bad? Says who? Guess someone didn't learn from history.

[Tom Sawyer]

Marc Emery will be seen in history as one of the men who changed the world. His CD and activism almost single-handedly turn this issue around in Canada. When he started it was a crime to sell High Times magazine.

When the time comes to more vigorously defend him against the DEA I hope some of us will stand up for him.

[error]

There are a few government agencies whose existence might be thinly justifiable. The DEA is not one of them. Nothing like it should ever exist in a society whose members call themselves free.

[Tom Sawyer]

Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, good - cannabis, et al bad? Says who? Guess someone didn't learn from history.

Here is a comparison of different drug's risks.

[penguins4me]

I come from a long line of alcoholics. I'm actually a teetotaler since as such it is impossible for me to become an alcoholic. ;) It's a nasty, nasty drug.

Some folks I trust to a greater or lesser degree say similar things about either nicotine, or the nicotine/crap mix found in legal cigarettes.

My original point was supposed to be that I find the gov't's designation of certain types of nasty drugs as 'good' and other benign types as 'evil' absurd, with the implication that they shouldn't have any business telling free people what they can or can't imbibe. Nice chart, tho.

[Tom Sawyer]

Yeah I was just offering folks the facts, in support of what you were saying. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

Sticky Buns must be 'off the chart'  on 'dependence'.  I notice that you left them out.  I'm not so sure that you should be trusted with the charts, Roger.

[Tom Sawyer]

Hey I can stop anytime I want to... mmmm... :stickybun:

[Dreepa]

wow  I was suprised to see Alcohol 'ahead' of Heroin.

[firecracker joe]

drug laws are stupid and if they p[ut marc emnery in prison for a fucking seed that will be my breaking point and the gov't will be declared war on by me let them try to come to my house and take my drugs i wont go without a fight . The only drugs i wont do are the legal onews tabacco,caffeine,etc.Its your life we need to stand together but not may of us do we live in a land of sheep baaaaaaaaaaaa.

[cyberdoo78]

I respect the right of people kill themselves in the quickest, by a gun, or the slowest, by a drug. Drugs to me are not logical. To slowly kill yourself, spend the money to buy it, and then again the money to fix the problems it creates are not logical, so I don't do them.

I will protect anyone else's right to do drugs the same as I protect my right to chose.

[FTL_Ian]

If what you're looking for is a chemically altered state, drugs are perfectly logical.   

We are all slowly dying anyway.

[firecracker joe]

now a days just breathing the air especially around fla. or cal. will kill ya slow i prefer reefer just "LEGALIZE IT"AND I'LL BE HAPPY  VERY VERY HAPPY 

[cyberdoo78]

I just choose not to accelerate the process of dying. You can deny it, show studies of it, that it is safe, but I disagree. Too much of a good thing can be bad, at least this is true in masterbation. But I also have a religious belief that true happiness can not come from without but only from within.

You can have your drugs, and I'll make sure you can get them too.