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Australia: March for pot!
Perth Indymedia
Saturday 06 May 2006 From the newswire... MAY 6: About 30 activists participated in the Global Marijuana March, organised locally in Darwin by the Network Against Prohibition NT (NAPNT) and staged in 200 cities worldwide to celebrate marijuana. “End police corruption – legalise pot”, was chanted outside Darwin, NT, Police Headquarters by a crowd of pro-marijuana activists on Saturday May 6, 2006. The Global Marijuana March, an annual event held for more than 25 years, takes place in more than 200 cities on every continent except Antarctica. In Toronto, Canada, thousands of marijuana smokers defiantly sparked up joints yesterday in front of Ontario's legislature to create a cloud of support for the drug's legalization. The day-long eighth annual Toronto Global Marijuana March lived up to the slogan of "stinking it to the man," attracting university students, Goths and hippies, as well as a uniformed police presence. ( Cannabis Week ) NAP spokesman Stuart Highway said, "It is a sick joke that people can be criminalised for smoking a herb." He said, "The non psychotropic cannabis – hemp – could 'save the planet tomorrow' if it were grown industrially." READ MORE/Comment... http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=default&featureview=363
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