Global Marijuana March

[HeyHeyJose]

I think people should come out into the open. The more the merrier

Well said. That marketing campaign called "The war on drugs" is coming to an end, being exposed as the charade it always was.

I have used marijuana mainly for medicinal reasons for the last six years and it has brought great improvement in my quality of life. I take full responsibility for ALL my adult choices and talk openly about them. Because I grew up in a very conservative social circle and started using marijuana as an adult -and in a US state that is yet to have a medicinal program, I educated myself extensively reading books, articles, peer review studies, DEA fictional reports, texts of laws, documentaries and talked to anyone who could guide me.

Am I afraid that a future employer could find this thread and my comments as someone implied here? I hope they do find it so that we can have an open conversation about adult choices, medicinal plants, panic attacks and chronic anxiety, and the role of a for-profit corporation in my life choices.

How sad to be an adult nowadays and be caught in that inner contradiction of whispering and apologizing for a life choice.

 

[Redpossum]

I was lucky enough to live in California, where I had a medical card and bought my medicine legally. It is very unfortunate that Argentina does not yet have such an open system.

 

[Redpossum]

This is today

I bought the current issue of THC magazine last night, (so I'd have something to read while I waited endlessly for my dinner at Andorra), and right inside the front cover was a full page ad to remind people of this. It included 9 photos from last year, and the biggest one was Buenos Aires. In fact, it looked like the big photo in the OP of this thread.

Interesting magazine, but the photos are torture to look at when there's nothing to be found except that brown dirt Paraguayan garbage. Turns out huevos rancheros are not the only thing I miss about California.

 

[HeyHeyJose]

Argentina is on the verge of a revolution: 150,000 people came out yesterday in Buenos Aires for the Marijuana March.

To pretend this topic doesn't exist is naive at best.

I went to the march and was flabbergasted by the amount and the diversity of people. Young, old, children, mothers everybody was there but the politicians and the church.

Take a closer to the social dynamics at play here: 150,000 people in a country of 41 million. And this was just one city.

As I said, Argentina is on the verge of a revolution, the regulation of marijuana and hemp.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Seen in Santiago de Chile a few months ago: http://tinyurl.com/ncn5dxm

 

[Joe]

When I smelled marijuana two years ago in Vancouver it smelled like skunk. Back in the college days in Montreal, it had a pleasant smell.

Does the marijuana here also have the skunk smell?

 

[Redpossum]

I was there, and it was freaking awesome! Like nothing I've seen in decades. I had a hell of a good time. And the smoke rising from the crowd seemed to imply a very wide variety of weed, from the nasty prensa paraguaya to one leño that passed my way which seemed to compare to California sinsie. The older man walking next to me at the time commented "muy rico" as he passed it back to its mysterious source, which made me laugh out loud.

My personal estimate of crowd size was 120,000, (purely a SWAG or Scientific Wild-Assed Guess), but I'll not dispute the higher figure. There was no way to get a complete picture from the ground; That would have required a helicopter, or...hmmmm, is it possible Google might have a satellite image online?

Again, the cops were conspicuous by their absence, and visibly present only in very small numbers at the block-ends of the intersecting streets, to stop vehicles. I was delighted by this aspect of things, all the more so in contrast to the increasingly aggressive behavior of police in the USA.

The crowd was amazingly mellow and friendly. I'm usually a bit nervous in big crowds, but I had no problem at all yesterday. Most of the people were young, but there were indeed a few of us veteranos around, and I did see more than one family, even a few grandmothers. I was asked about my origins by everyone I met, and all seemed fascinated by my description of simply calling the dispensary and having a selection delivered to my apartment, all perfectly legal with my medical card.

All in all, it was a highly enlightening experience. Bob Marley would have been proud.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

The theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Z7qnOu_Rc

 

[D.B. Cooper]

I was there too. Only in the Plaza de Mayo. I left before the march got started. Had a great time. Lots of free "puff&stuff"
The was a girl who was giving away free seeds. And there were people giving away free buds.
I met a guy from the states who was selling beer made from pot seeds. Bought a bottle which is still in my fridge. Saving it for a rainy day.
I'm glad I went. Lots of young families, some with children. It was a real blast.

 

[PhilipDT]

The crowd was amazingly mellow

Imagine that...