[420 Girl]

There are plenty of booths at the Dallas Convention Center for the Texas Republican Convention this weekend, but there's at least one that had to take its operations elsewhere.

Craig Johnson of Protectyouth.org, an organization that advocates for regulation and taxation of marijuana, applied for a booth twice before he was finally rejected. "I got a letter just simply saying, 'we denied your application,' " he said Saturday.

So instead, ten activists from various groups - including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - met outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building and walked to the convention center, where they stood outside and displayed their signs to passersby.

A web posting asked people to dress business casual and to avoid using "marijuana leaves or any other cultural references to marijuana," this was definitely not your average young-stoner crowd. More than a few of the activists were probably around in the '60s and '70s.

Johnson also made a point of calling the event a "vigil" and not a protest. "It's not us versus them," he told WFAA-TV (Channel 8).


NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Author: Neena Satija
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