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US Marijuana Supporters Turn Out in Force for Annual High Holiday
Lisa Leff | April 21, 2010

Marijuana smoke rising from a pro-pot crowd in front of the state capitol building in Denver, Colorado, for April 20 “420” celebrations. (AFP Photo) Marijuana smoke rising from a pro-pot crowd in front of the state capitol building in Denver, Colorado, for April 20 “420” celebrations. (AFP Photo)
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ChrisH
6:45pm Apr 22, 2010

Exactly Jeanne...Wish more people would lay back and relax, and pass that Dutchie by the left hand side.

What causes trouble is alcohol. (Mind you, I am Bintang's main income)

And other things "less rational" are also of concern...

No wonder on Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, alcohol consumption was prohibited last week, and only allowed between 6 and 7 pm, during dinner, to have a distinguished glass of wine, while eating KFC or McD.

People will use whatever dope they want, since forever, and forever. Criminalizing it only makes it lucrative for "certain people" to pick up on its trade.

Legalizing the bud will make sure that "that guy at the corner", who our experimenting youngsters have to go to now, doesn't also make a sale with his cheap heroine substitutes. Divide and conquer.

Get it through your thick "drugs r bad" skull!

Jeanne Hachette
3:44pm Apr 22, 2010

Agoz, open your eyes. Do you think nobody is taking dope in this country? By the way , in Holland, smoking pot is legal and they don't have too much trouble about that. Maybe that would reduce the riots in Indonesia.

ChrisH
1:11pm Apr 22, 2010

The fact that cannabis is illegal in many countries, is just another piece of evidence of how so many governments have blindly followed US policy for so many years.

It was the US who banned cannabis use, over "health concerns", while actually the hemp industry, mostly for clothes, threatened major US garment industries, producing cottons, and other cloth.

THAT is why hemp had to disappear!

And what better way is there, than to criminalize the smoking of the plant's flowers?

Cigarettes and alcohol are legal, and proven more deadly.

And people who STILL believe, after all these years, that prohibition works to rid a nation of drugs, are just plain silly.

Wake up!

agoz
10:40am Apr 22, 2010

i still confuse upon its American habit, i still remember what was Henry Allen said about "american dream" several days ago. is this habit would be exported to Indonesia and rest of the world? waooh...my head begin to migrain

Jeanne Hachette
11:36pm Apr 21, 2010

When are we going to see Aceh gold celebration at the Monas?


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Oakland, California. Stoked by advancing legalization efforts, marijuana smokers across the United States lit up in public parks, outside statehouses and in the posh confines of a Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore to observe the movement’s annual high holiday.

Those who weren’t within whiffing distance of a college campus or a reggae concert may not have realized Tuesday was 4/20, the celebration and mass civil disobedience derived from “420” — insider shorthand for cannabis consumption.

Advocates from New Hampshire to California trumpeted marijuana’s rising commercial and political acceptance while producing collective clouds of pungent smoke — often under the watchful eyes of law enforcement officers who for the most part let the parties proceed.

A daylong rally in Denver’s Civil Center Park drew thousands of people, as did the public smoking event that persisted at the University of Colorado in Boulder despite discouragement from college administrators. In California, where voters in November will consider whether to tax the sale of marijuana for recreational use, a three-month-old cultivation equipment emporium in Oakland got a 24-hour jump start, sponsoring a “420 Eve” festival on Monday.

Several hundred revelers lined up outside the 1,400-square-meter iGrow shop to enter a medical marijuana delivery service raffle for an oversized joint and a tour of a 16-meter portable grow room with a starting price of $60,000.

Marijuana use — medically and recreationally — is getting more attention these days, with voters in California and possibly three other states set to decide whether to legalize adult use of the drug. South Dakota voters will consider in the fall whether to join California and the 13 other states that allow medical cannabis use.

Most Americans still oppose legalizing marijuana, but larger majorities believe pot has medical benefits and the government should allow its use for that purpose, according to an AP-CNBC poll released on Tuesday.

Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said the drug’s steady movement from counterculture indulgence to mainstream acceptance was evident on Tuesday, when four cable television channels dedicated “a good chunk of programming to 420.”

“There is a large mainstreaming of all of this,” he said. “Some of it is happening because commercial entities looking to comport with local social mores and values are taking advantage of this bizarre numerology.”

The lure of revenue and respectability has prompted some veterans of the marijuana wars to diversify. Joshua Freeman, a Sonoma County pot grower, was at the 420 Festival handing out samples of specialty plant food he developed and is trying to market.

“We are not just a bunch of stoners sitting back on a couch playing video games,” he said.

 

Associated Press