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"I made a Facebook event for 4/20 — just for fun!" says Crabb-Burnham. "I'd be happy to hand it over to [MassCann] administrators," she adds, as if treading eggshells for not setting it up through the official MassCann Facebook group.

From the audience, a voice interrupts to set her straight. "You have the power! Use it!"

Members of MassCann will be on Boston Common for a public smoke session and collective celebration they hope draws big numbers — at 4:20 pm on Wednesday, April 20, dankest of all countercultural holidays.

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Richard Meehan

To my younger brothers and sisters "thank you for heating up the cause here in MA.! I am an old dude at 63 years of age, former Marine, left leaning artist by trade and proud old hippie by choice. I am personally sickened by the way my generation (Those of us that 'lived' the sixties) has left you beautiful folks to kick the ball down the road (For ALL of us) on this (Marijuana) issue and frankly so very much more. My "peers", your parents and even grandparents have let you down basicly out of fear of losing what little foothold they have in the material world should they get busted/caught/ or "found out". We have elected or first official inhaling president into office believing that he would fight (At the very least) for the Civil Right to use medical marijuana. He is a coward to date on the issue and needs to have his feet held to the fire if he intends to have any of our support come his second time around! The Feds must surrender to states rights and those that follow the voters wishes (Here in MA. 80%+ favor medical use) should not be subject to the Feds screwing around with the states business. I am willing to work with any of you in helping to push the new MA. Med. Bill to the House floor. There is not enough public attention to the Med issue in the local newspapers and where I live (Cape Cod) there is low to no grassroots movement to speak of (But we can change that right). This is one "old guy" that's mighty proud of all the young blood stepping up to join this fight! After all it is our state/country and WE WANT OUR VOICES HEARD!!!!!!!
Peace & Blessings,
No Shoes
Posted: April 13 2011 at 6:13 PM

Christie Morgan

Richard, excellently put and you rally my *two thumbs up*. Couldn't have said it better. Peace, Light and & Love, my brother... it is not Hippie... it is Human. :D <3
Posted: April 14 2011 at 12:37 PM

BillG4

i wonder why this lawyer, Epstein, says that the only way for the federal government to change the law is to "pass the 21st Amendment for marijuana" when there was no 18th Amendment making marijuana illegal like their was for alcohol. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment which forbade the production and sales of alcoholic beverages. The Constitution does not prohibit marijuana. State and federal laws do that. States can legalize marijuana, but it will still be illegal under federal law until the feds legalize it. Of course the feds don't have the resources to enforce their ban on marijuana, so if enough states legalize they'll capitulate and remove the federal ban on marijuana.

Constitutional amendments require a vote from two thirds of both houses of Congress and then have to be ratified by three quarters of the states to become law. A simple majority vote from our federal law makers could end the federal prohibition on marijuana, and while only a tiny few of our federal law makers publicly support legalization, you can bet that privately far more of them do, maybe even a higher percentage than the 40 some odd percent of the voting public that do. Most have probably smoked pot because most are males who went to college and at least for those who are baby boomers or younger there is a very high statistical likelihood that they've smoked it before as a good bit over half all adult males under 65 with at least some college have smoked it, according to government statistics. When states start legalizing it, that will open the debate and it won't be long before the feds remove their ban, without a constitutional amendment.

I'm a lawyer too, by the way. Epstein is just wrong.
Posted: April 14 2011 at 3:00 PM

Glenn Prescott

hay billg4 y dont u join massann/mormal and help us out
thanks
glenn
Posted: April 14 2011 at 6:12 PM

Mike Cann

http://masscann.org/joinus !!
Posted: April 14 2011 at 6:55 PM

Ariel Shearer

Richard, I am from Cape Cod myself. Sean Gonsalves at the Cape Cod Times writes an outside-of-the-box opinion column and I should hope he'd be open to starting such a discussion (perhaps via email?) -- he's great at getting the local scoop. During my time at Barnstable High School, kids were sniffed out by drug dogs and arrested on the weekly for pot possession. A lot of them dropped out when the resulting suspension messed up their attendance and threatened their ability to graduate on time. Not to mention the amount of marijuana possession arrests in the court report... I wonder how this has changed since the 2008 decrim? Need to keep tabs on the home town.

As for changing the law -- in our country, this takes a very long time and comes from a shift in public opinion from the bottom up. People gotta' want it REAL bad.
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