Pubdate: Thu, 04 Sep 2003
Source: See Magazine (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 SEE Magazine
Contact:  http://www.seemagazine.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2367

YES WE CANNABIS!

It was a modest turnout at Hempfest 2003 with only about 150 people 
sparking up on the Legislature grounds Monday. That's down from the nearly 
hundred or so more the fest saw at its 1996 debut. But perhaps this is the 
kind of protest where low turnout is a sign that things are changing in the 
demonstrators' favour. Soon, Hempfest will morph into just a regular day at 
the Leg. Soon, every man, woman and child in this country will have the 
right to carry 15 grams without fear. Soon, Ken Kirk will retire to the 
basement where his X-Box awaits, gathering dust. Soon, perhaps even TV 
broadcasters will have no reason to report things like, "To help subdue his 
Tourette's, Joe smokes up to eight marijuana cigarettes per day," as though 
use of the more colloquial, but widely understood word "joint" would 
somehow implicate them in the whole tawdry affair. Soon, it won't even be a 
tawdry affair. Exhale.
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