January 4th, 2011 we in Rhode Island had a special WaterFire torch lighting ceremony in Downtown Providence to commemorate the inauguration of Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee, State Attorney General-elect Peter Kilmartin, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts, and General Treasurer-elect Gina Raimondo.
Stoners AGAINST British and Dutch government-style "severely limited number of licenses" legalization and FOR legalization "for all" – the kind of legalization imagined by the vast majority of the cannabis community since at least 1969.
The response to my campaign to enlist anonymous volunteers to destroy marijuana (because the DEA can't do it themselves) has been so successful - with over 35,000 people already taking the pledge to search for, find, seize and destroy marijuana in controlled burns or using other techniques - that we feel that some of these volunteers deserve special honors for their sacrifice for keeping the local police and the DEA safe from hazardous materials.