The May 3rd March to Make Marijuana Legal

THIS MARCH IS A LEGAL ANNUAL MARCH [ WITH LEGAL CITY PERMITS ] ORGANISED BY CURES NOT WARS . IT IS USUALLY DONE ON THE FIRST WEEKEND IN MAY! WE HAVE DONE SO FOR SEVERAL YEARS DATING BACK TO CENTRAL PARK , WASHINGTON SQUARE , TOMPKINS & MORE RECENT BATTERY PARK ! THAT OLD RUMOR OF THE HELICOPTER BLESSING THE CROWD WITH BUD.....YEAH THAT IS US..WE BELIEVE IN WHAT WE STAND FOR & STAND FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IN...JOIN US!DRUG PEACE MARCH SATURDAYNEW YORK, NEW YORK APRIL 29RD 2008……URGENT RELEASE!!!The Annual MARIJUANA LIBERATION DAY ( March to End the Drug War) is set to hit New York City and 240 other cities worldwide this coming weekend, Saturday May 3rd.Organized by Cures Not Wars, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policy, the Worldwide Marijuana March and the Drug Policy Alliance, marchers will start gathering at 11am at Tompkins Square Park (St. Marks & Avenue A, on Manhattan's Lower East Side) for a health fair, speak-out and concert. They will march out at 1.45 pm sharp, proceeding north via 1st Ave to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the United Nations, where a full lineup of speakers, artists and bands will hold forth.The purpose of this march is to, by a show of support by Marchers, demonstrate to all law-makers and the UN the growing need to implement new legislation in dealing with Marijuana-related cases, as well the decriminalization of personal-use amounts of all banned substances.In 2008 we are focusing on the UN as part of a year-long campaign of demonstrations and lobbying which has already produced major concessions of fact by the UN Drug Czar Antonio Costa, repudiating the 1998 UN call to "make the world drug-free in a decade" :“Looking back over the last century, we can see that the control system and its application have had several unintended consequences -- “The first unintended consequence is a huge criminal black market that thrives in order to get prohibited substances from producers to consumers, whether driven by a 'supply push’ or a 'demand pull', the financial incentives to enter this market are enormous. There is no shortage of criminals competing to claw out a share of a market in which hundred fold increases in price from production to retail are not uncommon”. (p.10) “The second unintended consequence is what one night call policy displacement. Public health, which is clearly the first principle of drug control…was displaced into the background”. (p.10) “The third unintended consequence is geographical displacement. lt is often called the balloon effect because squeezing (by tighter controls) one place produces a swelling (namely an increase)in another place…” (p.10) “A system appears to have been created in which those who fall into the web of addiction find themselves excluded and marginalized from the social mainstream, tainted with a moral stigma, and often unable to find treatment even when they may be motivated to want it.” (p.11)**Making drug control 'fit for purpose': Building on the UNGASS decade"Protesters will march to end the drug war, decriminalize users, end the Rockefeller drug laws; and protect the rights of individuals with chronic diseases including HIV/AIDS to access medical marijuana, as well as access to sterile syringes, naloxone and ibogaine for the addicted.For more information about Cures Not Wars, log on to myspace.com/the08march or www.theworldwidemarijuanamarch.org …or call 212-677-7180 (Dana)page 2Event Line-upBandsTompkins Square 11:00AM-1:45PMGhandolff and the Hobbitz Random Richard Lenny Hoop's Bad-ass Brass K-Vibe Morrison & DancemasterParade Float: David Peel & the Lower East Side 1:45-2:30Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 2:30-6:30 PMTrue Life Cannabis Cup Band Reggae artists Splicer & Kayla Bliss TC III & Friends Hakim of Channel LiveSpeakers:Dastur Aram Khayyam Rob Robinson Dhoruba Bin Wahad Jeff Aubrey Randy Credico Garry Goodrow Bill Weinberg Tony Papa Valerie Van de Panne Steve Bloom John Sinclair Barbara Jackson Arlene Williams Gabriel Sayegh Dimitri Mugainis Dana Beal Warcry A.J. Weberman Playthel Benjamin Terrance Stevens Ashly's parents Thai drug users group Rev. Thomas Langley
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