[420 Girl]

The theme at Hempstalk a couple weekends ago in Kelley Point Park was "Legalize, Regulate, Educate." Visitors were asked to mail post cards to politicians, sign petitions, etc...

No thanks.

In Massachusetts, where cannabis use was decriminalized, residents are simply not paying the $100 state fines they are given.

In Manchester, New Hampshire a man who had just moved there as part of the Free State Project called the local chief police and left a message saying he would be carrying marijuana in a city park. No police appeared. After a couple of hours he went to the police station and showed the personnel there that he was indeed openly carrying the marijuana. None of them ventured out into the lobby to arrest, or even speak to, him.

Over the last few days in Keene, New Hampshire as many as 150 individuals have been smoking marijuana in public. They have dubbed the effort the "4:20 Smoke Club" and have yet to be brutalized by the out-manned local police force.

Local resident, Free State Project member and Smoke Club participant Rich Paul is enthusiastic about the turn-out and expressed the sentiments of many there via megaphone...

“We smoke this in remembrance of lost liberties. To a time when people don’t fear the government because the government fears the people.”

"They watched us break the law in the town square, and they did not take any action against us. We came, we smoked, we walked away," said Paul.

Alcohol prohibition floundered because ordinary people stopped convicting their neighbors of alcohol-related charges. Civil disobedience has always been the most effective, indeed the most moral, path to fighting injustice.

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/in...ohibition.html