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Cannabis Rally Held in Columbia for First Time
Posted by CN Staff on May 06, 2003 at 14:49:44 PT
By Amy Rainey, Associate Editor
Source: Maneater
Columbia joined Barcelona, Dublin, Paris and more than 100 other cities this weekend in holding a rally supporting the legalization of marijuana. The MU chapters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy participated in the Global Rally for Cannabis Liberation by holding a rally at Peace Park on Saturday. The goal of the day’s event was to get people together to talk about the issues surrounding the cannabis plant, organizers said. 
“The goal is to try and bring people together to talk about issues surrounding the cannabis plant, all of the possible benefits that industrial hemp could bring to people and to the environment as well,” said Amber Langston, vice president of MU NORML and SSDP. Missouri NORML coordinator Dan Viets said the hidden agenda of the international day of rallying was to legalize marijuana. “There isn’t any doubt about it, the international protests are certainly intending to remove all penalties for responsible use of marijuana by adults,” Viets said. One rally speaker was Peter Neinemeyer, who received a pardon from former President Bill Clinton after he had been sentenced to 27 years in prison for growing marijuana. The past two years, this rally has been held in Jefferson City. However, it was moved to Columbia this year in order to gain a larger response, Langston said. “We felt like we would have a stronger base of supporters if we had this here in Columbia where we have the group working, and there’s the campus here,” Langston said. Some discussions at the rally centered around what serious crimes are. “There are more violent crimes with alcohol than marijuana, and there is no real reason to have marijuana criminalized,” MU freshman Tony Luetkemeyer said. Source: Maneater, The (Columbia, MO Edu)Author: Amy Rainey, Associate EditorPublished: May 06, 2003Copyright: 2003 The ManeaterContact: forum themaneater.comWebsite: http://www.themaneater.com/SSDP http://www.ssdp.org/Missouri NORMLhttp://www.gstlnorml.org/Million Marijuana March News 2003http://freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml 
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