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US: Cannabis rally in Kirby Park draws advocates of legalized marijuana Eric Mark Citizens Voice Saturday 01 Oct 2016 “We demand our natural rights to interact with the plant,” said Jeff Zick, of the Northeast PA Cannabis Network, which organized the rally along with the Keystone Cannabis Coalition. Zick, 35, of Hop Bottom, compared cannabis to other natural herbs and plants such as tomatoes. A few people near Zick murmured their agreement. They stood by a tent just outside the park pavilion where cover bands played well-amped renditions of classic rock standards such as Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.” The rally also featured speakers and vendors. Zick commended the decriminalization of possession of drug paraphernalia, as happened recently in Wilkes-Barre and other cities in Pennsylvania, but he urged officials of those cities to take the next step and decriminalize marijuana, or cannabis, in any form. Frank Tarnowski, of Glen Lyon, said he decided to attend the rally because legalizing marijuana is “an important issue.” The legalization of medicinal marijuana was a step in the right direction, said Tarnowski, as he sat on the lawn near the pavilion with his back to a tree and petted his dog. But making marijuana of any kind legal is the goal, he said, though he added that will take time and effort to raise awareness through events such as Saturday’s rally. Carl Romanelli wants marijuana legalized and “cannabis POWs” freed from the jails to which they were sent after being convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Romanelli, of the Luzerne County Green Party, said cannabis should be “descheduled completely” in the ranking of substances based on their perceived danger to users. That is also the position of Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein, according to Romanelli, one of several Stein volunteers who attended the rally. People should be free to grow marijuana the same way they are free to make beer and wine, Romanelli said. Legalization would alleviate overcrowding issues at jails and prisons and prevent a vicious cycle in which marijuana users are incarcerated alongside hardened criminals and are forced to “learn how to become criminal and violent,” he said. In contrast, Saturday’s rally — at which a few dozen cannabis advocates came and went throughout the day — was a “nice mellow event,” Romanelli said. http://citizensvoice.com/news/cannabis-rally-in-kirby-park-draws-advocates-of-legalized-marijuana-1.2098673
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