cannabisnews.com: International Marijuana Reform Goes to the Web! International Marijuana Reform Goes to the Web! Posted by FoM on April 23, 1999 at 16:18:31 PT May Day is almost here! Source: Million Marijuana March It seems that this May 1st, the whole panorama of legalization interests from fiber, medicinal access, imprisonment of marijuana users, and the complex issue of legal adult recreational use, will be marching in step for personal freedom, reason and tolerance. You may even be able to stay home and light up, while watching live feeds from demonstrations all over the world (if your not marching that is!). During the sixties and seventies direct action for the reform of marijuana law consisted of marches, rallies, and smoke-ins. Now it seems that you can sit at home, smoke a joint, and join the revolution. In the last few years advocates for the legalization of marijuana have taken to the internet to espouse all points of view on the subject of reform. Since the success of pro-legalization sites like hightimes.com, marijuana.org, drcnet.org, norml.org, and cures-not-wars.org, not to mention hundreds of others all over the net, there is a whole new fever among activists to use this potent new tool to connect all the various points of view and groups throughout the world. While some of these sites are flashy, "Hey, we support Pot', and are full of cannabis graphics, others contain in depth info and links to a wealth of resources and contacts. The MILLION MARIJUANA MARCH, an International Day of Protest that started on the first of May last year in New York City. It is the marijuana movement's most recent attempt to exert political muscle on the internet. Facing down Mayor Rudolph Guilliani, Cures Not Wars went to Federal court for the right to march in their traditional protest, the historical 29 year old, Fifth Avenue Marijuana March. Last year's march, the first Million Marijuana March, drew thousands to Washington Square, who then marched to Battery Park in lower Manhattan. The march itself was not unique, as there have been hundreds of marches and rallies drawing tens of thousands of participants. What is different is the way the marijuana movement is beginning to coalesce this spring under the moniker 'THE MILLION MARIJUANA MARCH'. Internationally the banner has been picked up in an attempt to reform the marijuana laws of Great Britain on an excellent site put together by the ICC - International Cannabis Campaign. (www.schmoo.co.uk/mayday). Marches now are being held worldwide in over twenty cities, among them London, Auckland NZ, Melbourne Australia, Amsterdam, Johannesburg South Africa, just to mention a few. What was an independent attempt by many groups to form an International Marijuana Day, has become a full throttle endeavor on the internet to assemble the largest pro-marijuana protest in history. Cures Not Wars (cures-not-wars.org) enlisted the help of its sister organization and long time direct action engine, CAMP, to promote the event worldwide. The Coalition for the Abolition of Marijuana Prohibition, CAMP, (worldcamp.org) was formed in 1978 to bring together divergent groups on platforms and forums acceptable to all viewpoints. Out of this coalition grew the NYC Fifth Avenue Pot Parade (1978 / YIP) and the 29 years of annual marijuana protest in the nation's capital every July 4th. It is now promoted as the 4th of July Coalition (4th of july.org). CAMP was also instrumental in supporting initiatives in the early 80's in California (CMI) and Oregon (OMI). CAMP participated in the 1980 International Cannabis Alliance for Reform convention (ICAR) with its sister group the Legalization of Cannabis Campaign (LCC) which has now become the ICC. After visiting the site, www.millionmarijuanamarch.com, a person can see the progress of The Million Marijuana March as it proceeds. Listed are all the sponsors and endorsements. This one-of-a-kind portal has handy links to all the useful websites that promote marijuana reform. Concentrating on the MMM, Saturday May 1st, it features times and places for assembly, maps, lists of speakers, bands playing, resources like stickers, posters, dates of 420 benefits, products available to those wishing to promote the event, and individual contacts around the world. Cities participating across the United States include New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Tampa, Austin TX, and many, many others. You could sit on your butts and surf the revolution from a distance, you could sit at home and write your congressperson, but if you want to make a real difference you can join the one million marijuana co-conspirators in their quest to legalize cannabis by marching in the streets Saturday May 1st, 1999. Paul CornwellNational Coordinator / CAMP International Rally For Tolerance Dear Supporters: Thank you for volunteering to help this year's Million-Marijuana March! May 1st 1999 Marijuana Activists around the world will stand up and be counted. You can make it happen -- a Million (symbolic) Joints alight, held high, worldwide! If you can't make it to one of the already planned rallies, you can do your own, locally.STOP ALL CANNABIS ARRESTS Over 675.000 are arrested for marijuana a year in the United States alone! 10 million arrested! Over one million in jails world-wide! One million in the streets!STOP THE LIES The federal government is spending billions of dollars on slick Madison Ave. anti-drug commercials on T.V, radio & print ads. It's all LIES. In the past year, THC has been shown to reduce the risk of cancer,and it has been shown that smoking marijuana causes no long-term loss of pulmonary capacity. The studies that showed it was similar to heroin have been rejected as phonies. (the supposed blocker wasn't a blocker!) Best of all, new evidence that marijuana works against stroke proves that it's more like ayahuasca or the addiction interrupter Ibogaine than heroin or alcohol.RELEASE THE MEDICINE Six states and the District of Columbia have cast their vote for medical marijuana. Congressman Bob Barr from Georgia added a rider to the 1999 budget bill that prohibited spending even one cent on marijuana initiatives that would reduce penalties or legalize cannabis in any way. The voters of D.C have been gagged for months awaiting a federal judges ruling.HEAL THE SICK We should be able to do what we can to ease the suffering of those who face life threatening illness. Marijuana has been proven to be valuable as an anti-nauseate for persons receiving cancer chemotherapy, for relief from the AIDS wasting syndrome, for glaucoma, for the treatment of pain, for muscle spasm in multiple sclerosis, for various psychiatric disorders, and even for stroke! There are over 120 medical conditions that can benefit from treatment with Marijuana. Here is a list that represents medical citations from pre-1937 literature: anxiety disorder, panic disorder, alcoholism, opiatdependence, sedative dependence, cocaine dependence, huntington disease, epilepsy, migraine headaches, tic doloroux, neuropathy, hypertension, arthritis rheumatoid, arthritis post traumatic, arthropathy degenerative, anorexia, cough, hiccough, and nausea.END THE PRISON STATEA tidal wave of mandatory minimum, "3 strikes and throw-away-the-key" drug penalties have cranked up U.S. state and federal prison populations to an all-time high of 40 percent in the U.S.. In some localities the percentage of drug-related incarceration is 65%! It is estimated that by the year 2010, 6 million people will be locked up in the U.S.. The overflow going into private corporate prisons-- involuntary servitude for consensual, nonviolent conduct! This event needs that extra effort from everyone! Contact your local rally office and help out. There are many ways that you can get involved. Call us if you're interested in doing a rally. We have posters, flyers, speakers and products. We will list your rally and all your information on our web sites. www.cures-not-wars.org & www.millionmarijuanamarch.com No matter where you are on May 1st., stand up and be counted! Organize transportation for you and your friends to a nearby rally - put up posters, target large gatherings for leafleting between now and May 1. Produce more posters for you and your friends to copy and hand out. Familiarize yourself with our media package. This information can be effectively used to put the word out. Call talkshows, write letters to the editor, copy and mail our media package to all your local media. The key is to get the word out! Click the above link for information on your local event schedule!Anyone that is able to attend the Million Marijuana March and writes an article on their experiences at the event and submits it to Cannabis News I will post it for others to read. Hope everyone has a great day! Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #6 posted by student on April 19, 2001 at 12:42:41 PT: i need information on delta-9-tetrahydrocannibisin hi , my name is tim and i am doing a contervirshal issue for my L.A prodject for the 8th grade if anyone can e mail me back with information it wuld be great [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by WISHICOULDTOKE on November 29, 2000 at 04:26:13 PT WHY IT WILL NEVER BE I have a saftey sensitive job and would love to smoke dope. I am waiting for the government to legalize. It could be a long time though because of people like pothead joe in comment #4 . I feel that pot should be legalized and the government should addopt a mandatory spay and neuter program for people like pothead joe. Hey Joe, grow up guy your not helping the cause with comments like that. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by pothead joe on November 13, 2000 at 11:56:38 PT: weed I feel that marijunana should be legalized. I like to let my 6 year old smoke with me. He loves to get high. I have a 6 foot bong named godzilla and it blows his mind. He gets straight A's and is gonna skip a grade. Alot of his 1st grade buddies smoke with him. He can out smoke everyone of them. I have seen no serious side effects except for his large appetite and his abaility to blow a half ounce of bud without passin out. thats my boy and I am proud of him. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Yvette on July 28, 2000 at 16:02:31 PT: Marijuana use by a senior citizen I am a senior citizen who has used marijuana for many years. I suffer from some sort of chronic facial pain which no medical doctor seems able to understand or treat with traditional medicine but I can't tell people that it really helps relieve my pain and also helps improve my appetite which is not good. Does anyone know a doctor in San Diego who would give me a medical statement to help if I am ever caught with marijuana. I sure hate being thought of as a criminal. I am a retired college administsrator and have both a a bachelor's degree and a master's. I have always been a responsible citizen but would be considered a criminal by the law of the land. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by BRYANT WALKER on April 26, 2000 at 06:56:31 PT Marijuana I feel that marijuana should be legalized. I feel that there are little health risks if any and that normal medicinal pills have more bad side effects that mrs.mary!!! I feel that the goverment is just BULL hitI feel that everyone should have the right to smoke itand if not them one's with medicinalrequirements [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by jim hudson on January 24, 2000 at 19:33:02 PT: legalazation I'm only 17 so I can't vote or anything but I Hate hideing the fact that I smoke pot. I don't concider pot a crime to be punishable by any means. Schools make us kids take Health class. In HEalth they tell us DO NOT SMOKE WEED it will kill you,turn you into a crook or a louser. they say the same thing about sex. When a kid my age finds out that what a health teacher tells us is bulls #_ . he will start to not trust much of anything any money hugry teacher tells us. that topic has not really been touched in anything ive read in hightimes or other pot articles. In my law class there is not really anything on Legalization. It seems that schools and news stations shrug it all off like its not a problem. The only way to find any true facts on the subject is to be a pot smoker and the only way to be a pot smoker is to ba a criminal. My voice in this matter does not matter now but when im older i will be a fighter./ [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: