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4/20 pot rally draws tens of thousands in Vancouver
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/4-20-pot-rally-vancouver-1.3545092
The annual 4/20
pot rally is underway in Vancouver, with more than 15,000 attending the
new Sunset Beach location and a haze of smoke rising over English Bay.
Organizer Dana Larsen claimed the crowd had grown to 50,000, and
called this year's celebration the biggest 4/20 rally the city has seen
so far.
As of about 4 p.m. PT, police estimated the crowd was between 15,000 and 20,000.
Larsen said the larger, more open location of Sunset Beach was safer than the previous location at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
"I could not be happier today with how things have turned out," he said.
We just walked across the bridge and looked at the crowd. Sorry the video is shaking and the sound wasn't good. But I did hear the big count down and the "POOF" the place was "smokin'"
The community centre is a central hub for a neighbourhood in the
midst of a revitalization project run by the Toronto Community Housing
Corporation, which operates social housing projects in the city.
"We know that access to affordable and safe housing is part of the
solution to many social issues, such as child poverty, student debt and
our ability to help people with serious mental health issues and
addiction."
I voted Green but so very happy that Trudeau is in and Harper is gone.
My friend Sean just shared this with me. He send me an email titled "hmmm" with a link
and I wrote back this:
Totally cool, but now why can't we just be growing it in our gardens like other herbs, over the summer, we gather our supply, save it for the winter, it could be sold a farmers markets, ...that's the way it should be.
We are getting there, slowing, backwardly. Thanks so much for the lead.
I have been saying for such a long time that marijuana needs to be legalized and treated as a medicine. A true medicine, from the earth, not some weird chemical the pharmacueticals invent to make themselves rich and prey upon the uniformed, pain ridden souls who have no other resources. I'm not going to go into all my reasons why we need to legalize it, but I'll just add these links here and ask you all to seriously think about it.
The Department of Community Services must pay a one-time setup cost of $2,500 and $100 every three months for supplies, an appeal board ruled.
The Income Assistance Appeals Board concluded that the Amherst woman's need for marijuana was real, and since she has no other means, the department should assist her rather than pay for her pot.
The board stated that her request seems quite reasonable in comparison to what the department pays for other medications.
