Smoke a Joint on 420 and PROTEST!

[Payaso]

The head of the Drug Policy Alliance, Bill Piper, urges all marijuana users to stand up for their civil rights and protest publicly on April 20 about the unjust drug laws.

April 20th (4/20) has long been associated with marijuana, both marijuana use and marijuana activism. Thousands of Americans will gather on that day at rallies in Boston, Boulder, New York, Santa Cruz, Seattle and other cities. For people who prefer to relax with a joint instead of a beer or martini it's a time to celebrate. For those who don't use marijuana it's a time to stand up in support of their friends, family, and fellow citizens who face arrest for nothing more than what they put into their body. For the Drug Policy Alliance and the drug policy reform movement 4/20 represents something even bigger.

The movement to end marijuana prohibition is very broad, composed of people who love marijuana, people who hate marijuana, and people who don't have strong feelings about marijuana use one way or the other. We all agree on one thing though -- marijuana prohibition is doing more harm than good. It's wasting taxpayer dollars and police resources, filling our jails and prisons with hundreds of thousands of nonviolent people, and increasing crime and violence in the same way alcohol Prohibition did. Police made more than 750,000 arrests for marijuana possession in 2008 alone. Those arrested were separated from their loved ones, branded criminals, denied jobs, and in many cases prohibited from accessing student loans, public housing and other public assistance.

Piper says we should do EVERYTHING we can to draw attention to this issue. Call your neighbors and tell them you support medical use of cannabis. Write your elected representatives and urge them to change the laws that are filling the prisons with our children and friends. Go to an organized protest! Join the Million Marijuana March in your city! Fix your Facebook page to show you support medical marijuana or complete legalization!

For the full story visit this link:
The Huffington Post

 

[EstimatedProph]

Good read thanks for the post.

 

[2Lazy]

Woooo! Santa Cruz!!! I've spent a good twenty 4/20's there, but I suppose it has something to do with me being born there

Last year a few friends and myself went to a beach just past Davenport. I don't think it was Panther, but it coulda been. We set up a big 4 person tent and smoked our asses off.

Prior we had hit up two dispensaries in the area, so we had treats, hash, keif, and buds galore. Pretty epic. A little windy.

This year I was thinking San Francisco but I just might have to make an appearance on Pacific Ave and smoke one with the hippies. Right out in front of Borders Bookstore, it's the best spot in SC to get some of that hippy mountain weed.

 

[AfroSheep]

awesome read man, allready told my neighbours i smoke kind of, i live next door to a cop, and i smoke in my man cave outside, he can defineately smell the shit sifting through the sky everyday as i relax. and yet still never heard a word from him telling me its illegal and ill be arrested. im grateful for awesome cops like this.

 

[snowtiko]

thnx