Legalizing Marijuana in Nevada!
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No! Marijuana should not be legal nor regulated so kids can buy it on the street corner!
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Videos
The Green Brothers "Everybody's Green" with Illogic and Lord 360 @ The Abbey Pub in Chicago
-video by Chicago Hip Hop Documentary
BANDS PLAYING VEGAS 420 MUSIC FEST!
"FROM IGNORANCE 2 BLISS
AGAINST THE WORLD
ANYONE
BREDRIN DADDYS
CAN A BUS
DREAM
DEAD SERIAL KILLERS
DYE VERSE
EXTRAORDINARY MAGNITUDE
FINAL SOLUTION
FLASHBURN
GFI
IRIESIDE
JAY DUB & THE COMFORTABLE CREEPS
KNOWN ASSOCIATE
LACERATION OF AFFECTION
MEAN DINOSAUR
MINDPOP
MORDOR
MR MUSTACHE
ONE THEORY
PATRICK RYAN DUB TRIO
POBOY
POST MORTEM
PSYCHOCYBIN
REASON TO REBEL
REQUIEM
REVOLUTION AD
SEEDS N STEMS
SLOKA
SNATCH MAGGOT
SOLIDIFY
STONE DEAD ROSES
STUTTER
THA CRHYME $QUAD
THE BACK SEAT BUS DRIVERS
THE GREEN BROTHERS
THE INDIVIDUALS
THE VAGFUX
THE VICTIMS
TRADRE JOE
URBAN
ASSAULT
WILLIE PSYCHO
ZEBULON OF BABYLON
DJ DIRECT
DJ VEGAS
VIBE
DJ
MARSHALL
DJ
STRONGARM vs DJ JASON LEMAITRE
DJ MISS JOY
vs DJ Biz!E
DJ GANJABOAT w/ MC DINA & PHOENIX ORION
DJ TWO
FISH vs DJ FEIGHT w/ MC SPECIALIST
DJ JIMMY HOFFA
DJ MANATEA vs
REBEL LION
DJ SPECIAL K
Comedians Performing Vegas 420 Music Fest
Diaz Mackie "The
Golden Child"
Brandon Hahn aka The Gooch
from Comp 92.3
Matt Markman
Nathan Lund
Bryan Bruner
Penny the Prince
Marlen Baker
John Hilder
Special Guests
John Doe Radio
The Stone Zone
Keith Stroup, Founder NORML, Washington, D.C.
Chris Conrad, Court Proclaimed Marijuana Expert
Mikki Norris, Director Cannabis Consumers Campaign
Randy's Papers
More TBA!
The Emporer Wears No Clothes - Jack Herer , The Last Free Man in America Meets the Synthetic , Subversion - Gatewood Galbraith
All those sitting in prison or jail for lighting up!
All those sitting in a wheel chair or hospital bed who stood up and demanded their medicine!
All those who work everyday to change these draconian laws!
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It was supposed to be a huge two-day, 4/20 event, a festive celebration for the cannabis culture, sponsored by Nevada NORML. People came in from Washington, Chicago, Ohio, California, and Oregon. Keith Stroup, Founder of NORML came in from DC. And that's only the people I spoke with. There were to be 30 bands, and speakers and lots of vendors . Festival organizers were expecting about 5,000 people and thought they had all the permits they needed. About 1,000 tickets were pre-sold or given away.
We arranged our schedules to attend and speak at this nice 4/20 Festival in Las Vegas, and flew in on Friday, in time for my speaking slot. But, when we arrived, the event had significantly reduced. The venue, the Ice House, had been contacted by the authorities and were told that no vending could take place outside or inside, no speakers could speak, nobody could table or hand out literature. There could only be music in a place that holds a thousand people. Police were riding bikes through the large parking lot area that only weeks before had hosted an event by Snoop Dog and others. When the scent of cannabis was sniffed in the outside air, the code-enforcement person cancelled the event, threatening the owners of the Ice House to suspend their licenses for 30 days if they didn't call off the 4/20 event.
On a personal level, it was humiliating that the town that celebrates and encourages drinking, sex, gambling, hedonism, and general "What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas"-style debauchery, would find us so undesirable that we don't even fit this category. Apparently all it took was a petition signed by 30 people supposedly from an influential Mormon group, to get the authorities to pull the plug and stop the peaceful partying of 5,000 cannabis consumers, and treat us like criminals, outlaws or undesirables. "Not in our town" was the message we got from the moral authority of Las Vegas. What makes cannabis use a behavior that can not be tolerated, when so many more harmful behaviors are embraced and marketed there? The hypocrisy is stunning.
How dare they treat us this way? Ignorance. Discrimination. Scapegoating. In a way, this experience was like being refused lunch service at the counter in a Northern city! This is truly a civil rights issue. No speeches from the stage or handing out of literature was a blatant violation of our freedom of speech protections.
Many people lost thousands of dollars on this weekend. Many vendors lost money, the Ice House lost money, the musicians lost money, attendees lost money, and we lost money getting there. Much money was to be generated at this event, tourist dollars were going to be spent all over town, and the message was to get out about legalizing, taxing and regulating cannabis in Nevada in the near future. But, instead it was a big loss for everyone.
Before we left, my husband, Chris Conrad and I called the stragglers together and spoke from the back of a pickup truck about the situation. If we keep taking this treatment and don't demand our rights, we can expect more of this abuse. We are better than that, we are "the good people" and we must have the self-respect to stand up, call them on it, or we will get more of the same disgusting treatment again and again.
I hope people learned some lessons from that experience. I hope the organizers, Nevada NORML, especially will come back and demand justice.
-- Mikki Norris, Director
Cannabis Consumers Campaign
http://www.cannabisconsumers.org/
Coordinator, Human Rights and the Drug War
http://www.hr95.org/
Co-author, _Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War_
Co-author, _Human Rights and the Drug War_
Consultant, California Cities Campaign
http://www.taxandregulate.org/