Even if you've never heard of the Global Marijuana March (GMM), the title itself probably conjures up a few images. And if those images include teenage boys hitting fluorescent bubbling bongs and hippie girls in cotton dresses moving oddly about to "Uncle John's Band," then you're not far off. But it's also likely that this image is missing a few details - like cops watching on with implicit approval, rousing speeches about decriminalization and a 20,000-person crowd spread across our provincial parliament's backyard. And these are precisely the details that the Toronto Freedom Festival (TFF), in conjunction with the GMM, will attempt to highlight.

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