The award-winning Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, UK will play host to cannabis activists and protestors calling for an end to drug prohibition on Aug 9, 2009.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The people of Nepal held an anti-prohibition rally in the capital Kathmandu on June 26, 2009. Organized by a young man named Sujan, the rally was made up of 30 cars, decorated with pro-legalization and anti-prohibition signs.
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime released a report yesterday calling for the decriminalization of casual and addict drug use and personal cannabis production.
The winner of the award for Perfect Description of the Reason Behind Marijuana Prohibition and the Nazi Holocaust and Every Other Historical Barbarism goes to Toronto narc Paul McIntyre speaking last week on CTV news about the nightly raids on pot gardeners: “We’re paid to go out every night to keep arresting these guys.”
Marijuana remains illegal even though public attitudes are clearly changing on this topic. It is illegal even though 100 million Americans have smoked it and suffered little if any negative side effects.
President Calderon is set to sign the law, but some fear that letting off users caught with limited amounts of drugs will increase drug use and encourage 'drug tourists' from the U.S.
As California goes, so goes the nation. If that old adage still holds true, then the nation may soon see a gradual backpedaling from the criminal justice policies that have led to wholesale incarceration in recent decades.