2019 Global Cannabis March and 420 event map
1037 cities have participated from 88 nations or subnational areas since 1999.
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Share link: 2019. Events on April 20 and May 4, 2019, or thereabouts. See dates on 2019 GMM flyers, and 2019 420 flyers. The Global Cannabis March (Global Marijuana March) is the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts. 420 events are on April 20 or thereabouts. Marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, info tables, expos, lectures, movies, etc.. Other names, and associated events (some have been around longer than GCM): World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, J Day, MardiGrass, Million Marijuana March, Cannabis Parade, etc.. See: Google Translate. Share GCM-420 event links here: Main talk page And here: Main Global Cannabis March and 420 fan page. International GCM-420 group. Europe GCM-420 group. Private GCM-420 group. 2020 Facebook events. For organizing: info, help, and contacts. And Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc..
Reports, compilations
See 2019 crowd photos. See 2019 graphics slideshow video. See: social media reports and tags. See Google image searches: Cannabis Day. And: Dia Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. And: Global Cannabis March. Add city name to searches. Search Google, Google Images, Youtube, etc.. See: Video searches. 2019 Facebook events and reports. See: 420 and Global Cannabis March event lists by year. See 2019 section. See: Getting lit! Stoners around the US and Canada celebrate the biggest 420 day EVER at public festivals after a tenth state legalizes recreational weed. Daily Mail.
Summary and more
Return to top. 41 nations participated on May 4, 2019, or thereabouts. See also: 2018, 2017, 2016. Anyone can edit city and country pages directly without logging in.
Africa
- Return to top. See also: Global Marijuana March Africa.
Ghana
South Africa
- Return to top. Cape Town May 4: [19][20][21][22]. Johannesburg April 20: [23].
Asia
- Return to top. See also: Global Marijuana March Asia.
- Note: Russia spans both Asia and Europe. See Russia in the next section.
Indonesia
- Return to top. Denpasar May 12: [24][25][26][27][28]. The event was on the beach at Batubelig Combi: See map. Makassar May 4: [29][30][31].
Japan
- Return to top. Tokyo May 4: [32].
Philippines
- Return to top. Cainta April 20: [33]. Manila April 20: [34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. Pakil, Laguna April 17-19: [41].
Taiwan
Thailand
- Return to top. 420 Forever: Thailand’s 2 Cannabis Festivals Roll Out This Week | Coconuts Bangkok. Bangkok. April 20: [43] [44]. Buriram April 20: [45][46][47][48][49][50][51].
Russia
- Return to top. See also: Global Marijuana March Russia. Saint Petersburg May 4: [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64]. Facebook: [65][66]. Videos of event: [67][68][69][70][71]. Event held here: Wikipedia: Ozerki (Historic district in Saint Petersburg).
Europe
- Return to top. See: Europe. Cannabis-related links. See also: Global Marijuana March Europe. Note: Russia spans both Asia and Europe. See Russia in the previous section. See: List of all the major European 2019 Cannabis Events; cannabis expo, scientific, business and hemp conferences. And: Les événements cannabiques de 2019 - Newsweed.
Austria
- Return to top. Vienna May 4: [72][73].
Belarus
- Return to top. Minsk April 19: [74].
Belgium
Bulgaria
- Return to top. Sofia April 20: [79].
Czech Republic
Denmark
- Return to top. Copenhagen May 4: [84][85][86].
Estonia
- Return to top. Tallinn April 20: Facebook: Kanepipooldajate kevadine kogunemine. And: Photos.
Finland
- Return to top. Turku May 4: [87][88][89].
France
- Return to top. La Marche dans votre ville - Cannaparade 2019 - Marche pour la légalisation du Cannabis. Lyon May 4: [90][91]. Paris April 20-21: [92][93][94][95][96][97]. May 4 (Montreuil): [98]. May 11: [99]. Saint-Flour May 4: [100].
Germany
Annaberg-Buchholz May 4: [103][104]. Berlin April 20: [105][106]. Braunschweig May 4: [107][108]. Cologne 420: [109]. May 4: [110][111]. Dortmund May 3: [112]. May 4: [113][114]. Dresden May 11: [115]. Duesseldorf May 4: [116][117]. Duisburg May 4: [118][119][120]. Erfurt April 20: [121]. May 4: [122][123]. Erlangen May 4: [124][125]. Frankfurt April 20: [126]. May 4: [127][128]. Freiburg May 11: [129][130]. Furth May 4: [131]. Halle (Saale) May 4: [132][133]. Hamburg May 4: [134]. Heidelberg May 4: [135][136]. Kitzingen May 4: [137]. Koblenz May 4: [138][139]. Konstanz May 11: [140][141]. Ludwigshafen May 3: [142][143]. Mainz May 4: [144][145]. Monchengladbach May 4: [146][147]. Munich May 11: [148][149]. Munster April 20: [150]. May 4: [151][152]. Passau May 4: [153][154]. Regensburg May 4: [155][156]. Rostock May 4: [157][158]. Saarbrucken May 4: [159][160][161]. Solingen May 4: [162][163]. Stuttgart May 4: [164][165]. Ulm May 4: [166][167]. Viersen May 11: [168][169]. Wildeshausen May 4: [170][171].
Greece
- Return to top. Athens May 11: [172].
Hungary
Ireland
- Return to top. Dublin April 20: [176][177]. May 4: [178].
Italy
- Return to top. Milan May 3-5: 4.20 Hemp Fest, International Cannabis Expo of Milan. [179] [180] [181]. Pisa May 18: [182][183]. Rome May 11: [184][185][186][187][188][189][190]. Turin May 11: [191][192].
Lithuania
- Return to top. Vilnius April 21: [193].
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
- Return to top. Belfast April 20: [199][200].
Poland
- Return to top. Warsaw May 25: [201].
Spain
- Return to top. Madrid May 10: [202]. May 11: [203][204][205][206][207][208][209][210][211][212][213][214][215][216].
United Kingdom
- Return to top. See #Northern Ireland higher up. Official UK Cannabis Social Clubs List – UKCSC. And: UK and Europe Cannabis Events Diary.
Bristol April 20: [217]. May 11: [218]. Cardiff May 4: [219][220]. Coventry April 20: [221]. Doncaster April 20: [222]. Durham April 20: [223]. Glasgow April 20: [224]. Leeds April 20: [225][226]. London April 20: [227][228][229][230][231][232][233][234]. Manchester April 21: [235]. Nottingham April 20: [236][237]. Swansea April 20: [238]. Worthing April 20: [239].
Oceania
- Return to top. See also: Global Marijuana March Oceania.
Australia
- Return to top. Canberra April 20: [240]. Melbourne April 20: [241][242]. Police officer filmed 'punching' teen in head at pro-marijuana rally. Nimbin May 3-5: [243][244].
New Zealand
- Return to top. Facebook events page for NORML New Zealand Inc.. It links to 2019 Facebook event pages for cities holding events on May 4. And: J Day 2019 “May the 4th be with you” – NORML New Zealand.
Auckland May 4: [245]. Christchurch May 4: [246]. Dunedin April 20-21: [247][248][249]. May 4: [250]. Hastings May 4: [251]. Taupo May 4: [252]. Wellington May 4: [253]. Whangarei May 4: [254].
Latin America
- Return to top. See also: Global Marijuana March in Latin America.
- See nearby islands section farther down.
Argentina
- Return to top. El mapa de la marcha cannábica: los puntos de encuentro para pedir la legalización de la marihuana - Infocielo. And: Fijate si está tu ciudad y en que horario se concentra!! [255][256]. Need more Facebook event links. 2019 graphics. Some cities had Facebook event pages, but showed no indication of an event actually taking place on the event page, nor on the group page.
Bahia Blanca May 4: [257][258]. Buenos Aires May 4: [259][260][261][262][263][264][265][266]. May 11: [267]. Catamarca May 25: [268][269]. Cordoba May 4: [270][271]. Esquel May 4: [272]. Jujuy May 4: [273][274][275][276]. La Plata May 4: [277][278][279]. Neuquen May 4: [280][281]. Olavarria May 4: [282]. Parana May 4: [283][284]. Pilar May 4: [285]. Rosario May 4: [286][287]. Salta May 4: [288][289]. San Juan May 4: [290]. Tandil May 4: [291][292]. Trelew May 4: [293][294]. Ushuaia May 4: [295].
Bolivia
- Return to top. Cochabamba April 20: [296]. Event page says no one showed up.
Brazil
- Return to top. Maceio May 11: [297][298][299][300]. Porto Alegre May 4: [301].
Chile
- Return to top. Santiago April 20: [302]. May 18: [303].
Colombia
- Return to top. Bogota April 20: [304] [305]. Medellin April 20: [306] (need event page). May 4: [307][308][309][310].
Costa Rica
- Return to top. San Jose May 4: [311][312][313].
Ecuador
Mexico
- Return to top. ¡Marchamos por nuestros cogollos!: 16 ciudades se manifiestan por la mota en México - La Dosis. México prepara la Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana 2019 • Soft Secrets. Eventos cannábicos imperdibles para este 420. [317]. Arranca el Maratón 4/20-Marchas - La Dosis. Marcha Cannábica México - Banner listing May 4 events for many Mexican cities. 420 actividades en México. Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana 2019 | BRSTR. Marchan en todo el país por la legalización de la mariguana. ¡20 mil mariguanos marchamos en México!
Aguascalientes City April 20: [318]. May 4: [319][320][321]. Cancun May 4: [322]. Ciudad Juarez April 20: [323]. May 4: [324][325]. Gomez Palacio April 20: [326]. Guadalajara May 4: [327]. Huixquilucan April 20: [328][329][330]. Jalmolonga April 20: [331]. Mexicali April 20: [332][333]. May 4: [334]. Mexico City April 20: [335][336][337][338][339][340]. April 24: [341]. April 29: [342]. May 4: [343][344][345][346][347]. Merida May 4: [348][349]. Monterrey April 20: [350]. May 4: [351]. Morelia May 4: [352]. Playa del Carmen May 4: [353]. Puebla April 20: [354][355][356][357][358][359][360][361]. Rafael Lara Grajales April 20: [362][363][364][365]. Tijuana May 4: [366][367]. Toluca May 4: [368]. Torreon May 4: [369]. Xalapa May 4: [370][371][372] (need event page). Video: [373].
Paraguay
- Return to top. Asuncion May 4: [374][375].
Peru
Uruguay
- Return to top. Montevideo May 18: [379].
Nearby islands
Puerto Rico
Northern America
Canada
- Upcoming Events – Canada 420 Cannabis Community.
- The 2019 Leafly Buyer’s Guide to 4/20 Deals in Canada.
- Wikipedia: Provinces and territories of Canada.
Alberta
- Return to top. Calgary April 20: [384]. April 18-21: [385][386]. Medecine Hat April 20: [387][388]. May 3-4: Sun City Cannabis & Hemp Expo [389].
British Columbia
- Return to top. Vancouver April 20: [390]. May 4: [391][392].
Nova Scotia
- Return to top. Halifax May 4: [393].
Ontario
- Return to top. Hamilton April 20: [394] [395]. Kitchener April 20: [396][397]. Ottawa April 20: [398]. Timmins April 20: [399]. May 4: [400][401][402]. Toronto April 20: [403]. May 4: [404][405][406][407][408][409]. Need event page.
United States
- 420 Events Guide | PotGuide.com. Pick state from dropdown menu. For the monthly state pages linked below it is easier to scroll down the page versus clicking the dates. There are many 420 events of all types. A few of the major ones are listed below.
- Cannafo.com. Calendar: April 2019. Click April 20, etc.. May 2019.
- CelebStoner's Best 4/20 Events Guide Ever!
- Best 420 Events of America 2019 - Marley Family, Snoop, Chong | Leafly.
Arizona
- Return to top. Phoenix April 20: Things to Do on 4/20: Parties, Dispensaries, Sales, Deals | Phoenix New Times. Why 420 is Weed Day, and where you can party in Phoenix.
California
- Return to top. Adelanto April 20: Kushstock Festival 7. [410] [411]. Merced April 20-21: [412][413][414][415]. Sacramento April 20-21: [416] [417]. San Diego April 20: Smokin’ 4/20 events in San Diego - Pacific San Diego. San Francisco April 20 Hippie Hill: [418][419][420]. 420 Events and Things To Do in San Francisco - SF Station - San Francisco's City Guide. 4/20 Parties From San Francisco to Wine Country - 7x7 Bay Area. Your Bay Area Guide to 4/20 - SF Weekly. Weed April 20: [421][422][423][424].
Colorado
- Return to top. Colorado PotGuide.com - April. May. And: 4/20 in Colorado. Denver April 20: Mile High 420 Festival: [425][426][427][428]. April 18-23: 4/20 Weekend 2019 | World Cannabis Week | 4/20 Events in Denver, CO. [429].
Delaware
- Return to top. Rehoboth Beach May 5: [430][431]. Yorklyn April 20: [432].
Florida
- Return to top. Brooksville April 19-20: Emerald Nature Coast Health & Music Fest. [433] [434]. Miami April 20: 420 Celebration: Expo & Festival: [435][436][437].
Idaho
- Return to top. Boise, Idaho April 20: [438][439]. Idaho Falls May 4: [440].
Illinois
- Return to top. Chicago April 20: [441] [442] [443] [444] [445]. 13 ways to enjoy 4/20 this Saturday in Chicago, dude.
Indiana
- Return to top. Indianapolis April 20: [446]. 420 Day 2019: Here's the buzz about 'Weed Day' events in Indianapolis.
Louisiana
- Return to top. New Orleans April 20: 1st Annual 5o420 Festival: [447][448][449].
Maryland
- Return to top. Baltimore April 20: Charm City Smoke Fest: [450][451].
Massachusetts
- Return to top. Everett April 20: [452][453].
Michigan
- Return to top. 420 events in Michigan: Kushstock Festival, 420 Canna Expo. Detroit April 20: [454][455][456]. Flint April 20: [457][458]. Jones April 20: [459][460][461][462]. Mount Pleasant April 20: 420 Canna Expo: [463][464][465].
Missouri
- Return to top. Kansas City May 4: [466][467] Need a real event page. St. Louis April 20: [468] [469] [470].
Nebraska
- Return to top. Omaha April 20: [471].
Nevada
- Return to top. Las Vegas April 20: [472]. North Las Vegas April 19-21: The Love In Festival. A Celebration of Music & Cannabis. 4/20 Weekend: [473][474][475][476].
New Jersey
- Return to top. Trenton April 20: [477][478][479].
New Mexico
- Return to top. Albuquerque April 20-21: Facebook event pages: NM 420 Fest 3.0. And: 3rd Annual NM 420 Fest. And: New Mexico 420 Fest. Not Facebook: Third Annual NM 420 Fest 2019.
New York
Oregon
- Return to top. Ashland May 4: Hemp U - Pre-Planting Support Workshop & Market: [490]. Portland May 4: [491][492].
Pennsylvania
Texas
- Return to top. Austin April 18-22: [504][505]. Dallas April 20: 5 Ways to Celebrate 4/20 in Dallas, 2019 Edition | Dallas Observer. Fort Worth April 20: [506]. May 11: [507][508]. Lubbock April 19-21: [509]. May 4: [510][511].
Virginia
Washington
- Return to top. Washington PotGuide.com - April. May. Seattle April 18-21: Seattle Weed Events Calendar - The Stranger. 52 Weed Events for 4/20 2019 in Seattle - Things to Do - The Stranger. May 4: [515].
Washington DC
- Return to top. Washington DC April 20: [516][517][518][519].
Wisconsin
- Return to top. Madison May 4: [520][521]. Wisconsin Dells May 4: [522].
Format
1037 cities have participated from 88 nations or subnational areas since 1999.
The overall city list linked just above is no longer up to date. So many cities have done 420 and GMM events the last few years that it is too time consuming to create so many new city pages.
Anyone can edit existing city and country pages without logging in. For example; to add links for Facebook groups and pages, and other links. See city format for ideas.
Red-border cities above (on the 2023 city list and before) do not have city pages on either wiki.
Overview
The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is also known as the Million Marijuana March (MMM), and Global Cannabis March (GCM). Other names, and associated events (some have been around longer than GCM): World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Cannabis Parade, Ganja Day, J Day, MardiGrass, etc.. GMM occurs on the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts, depending on the city and country. It began in 1999. See New York City, Dana Beal, and Wikipedia: Global Marijuana March. It may include marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, information tables, and more. The six main demands: stop all cannabis arrests; stop the lies; release the medicine; heal the sick; end the prison state; Cures Not Wars. See ibogaine. And Facebook: Ibogaine Universe!!!! See GMM links for many links for event maps, reports, crowd photos, videos, GMM graphics, press/media, 420 graphics, etc.. See flat lists. See GMM Facebook. See Archive.org to find archived reports by entering the URL. See report compilations: 420 and Global Marijuana March event lists by year. See also: Wikipedia: Legality of cannabis by country. Please let us know of missing cities for any year: Talk.
Yearly totals
Return to top. See: 420 and Global Marijuana March event lists. And: GMM and 420 nations.
GCM, GMM, MMM. First Saturday in May (or thereabouts). Cities and nations holding 4/20 events are included in the lists for later years. Yearly maps: Hundreds of cities participated in 2023 and 2022 GMM and 420. 41 nations participated on May 4, 2019, or thereabouts. 43 nations participated on May 5, 2018, or thereabouts. 42 nations participated on May 6, 2017, or thereabouts. 45 nations participated on May 7, 2016, or thereabouts. 43 nations participated on May 2, 2015, or thereabouts. 213 cities from 43 nations signed up for May 3, 2014 or thereabouts. 229 cities from 43 nations signed up for May 4, 2013 or thereabouts. 177 cities from 34 nations signed up for May 5, 2012 or thereabouts. 274 cities for May 7, 2011. 328 cities for May 1, 2010. 270 for May 2, 2009. 240 for May 3, 2008. 230 for May 5, 2007. 203 for May 6, 2006. 184 for May 7, 2005. 165 for May 1, 2004. 235 for May 3, 2003. 199 for May 4, 2002. 119 for May 5, 2001. 104 for May 6, 2000. 31 for May 1, 1999.
Search city lists
Google site search no longer works well. It does not find all the yearly city lists containing a city name.
Special:Search works well. Click: "Global Marijuana March maps". Add city name to search, and state/province/nation as needed. This is an advanced search of main pages and templates. This will pull up all yearly maps in which the city is listed. Except for 2015, 2016, or 2017 in which only countries were listed for the most part. Also, 2021 which did not have a map page. Putting quotes around multi-word city names helps focus the search: "New York City".
Free hosting
See: Free web hosting.
More GCM-420 links
GMM links. Many links, including video, image, and media searches.
Videos
Graphics and photos
Return to top. Click for flat list of event graphics and photos over the years. In alphabetical order by city.
Click Full site to see images below (if not visible). Or view page on desktop computer.
2019 graphics by city
More graphics
Return to top. See: Videos.
- GMM: years, photos, basic city lists, maps, detailed city lists, nations, links, graphics, regions. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Cannabis Day. And: Dia Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. And: Global Cannabis March. Add city name to searches. Search Google, Google Images, Youtube, etc..
Cannabis is safer
Return to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. Note: This section and the following ones are at: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
See articles: Cannabis is safer. And:
History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects.
See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Leave event links and compilations at the 2024 talk page (no need to log in). And in comments or posts at Facebook: Global Cannabis March and 420. And: Global Cannabis March in Europe. Especially events outside the US. For any year. See years.
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Portugal's decrim
Return to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links and decriminalization. See the utter failure of the US Republican-led drug war and mass incarceration: It is killing Americans at the rate of one Vietnam War every 6 months.
There were around 107,500 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2023, at a rate of 295 deaths per day. 321 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.
Chart from: December 15, 2020 article: Scotland's drug death crisis in six charts. BBC News. |
Harm reduction
Return to top. End the expensive, incarceration-heavy US drug war with Portuguese and Canadian single-payer universal healthcare, and Portuguese decriminalization.
Government debt
Return to top. Share link: Debt ceiling. See: Wikipedia: US debt ceiling.
Save $1.5 trillion:
Per year in the US:
Single-payer
Return to top. Republicans oppose single-payer universal healthcare. US would save 1.5 trillion dollars per year if it instituted Canadian universal healthcare. That is 5.4% of US GDP.
Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe.
Medical bankruptcies
Return to top. See: Health Care Costs Number One Cause of Bankruptcy for American Families. And: Americans have high personal medical debt, unlike Canadians. [523][524][525]. High student debt is another problem Americans have due to Republican politicians. Unlike Canadians. Changing the age of adulthood to 17 would free up a year of education money.
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Richer Canadians
Return to top. US is Broke, not Woke. Healthcare spending and debt ceiling.
Many sleepy Americans can't do the math concerning healthcare costs and medical debt. Also, the cost of high incarceration rates due to the GOP-led war on drugs. Also US student debt, and US household debt due to GOP's low minimum wages, etc...
Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult. Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they have more energy because Canadians don't have to take 3 jobs, go bankrupt, or sell their homes, due to medical and student debt. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Student debt balance is forgiven after 15 years payment in Canada.
USA. Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. |
Medicare spends 1.4% on bureaucracy. Insurance companies spend 16-20%. See chart. We need Medicare for All. |
Healthier Canadians
Return to top. See: End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization. Cannabis is legal across Canada. See Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada.
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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [526][527][528].
Health spending
Return to top. Republicans are responsible for the large US government deficit. Because they support the wasteful US healthcare system over the much cheaper single-payer universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
Wikipedia: Health spending by country. Percent of GDP. See Gross domestic product. 11.2% for Canada in 2022. 16.6% for the US in 2022. |
See Wikimedia chart source. |
Wikipedia: Health spending per capita. OECD countries. US dollars, using economy-wide PPPs. Public, private, and total expenditures. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. |
See Wikimedia chart source. |
Poor and sick:
Return to top. Canadians are healthier on average, and their preventive healthcare is much cheaper! Versus US Emergency Room care. See Wikipedia: Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product). And: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.
"The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform" from Michael Moore has this image: "Keep 'em poor and sick". |
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Republican states;
Wikipedia: Legality of cannabis in the US
Legal for recreational use
Legal for medical use
No comprehensive medical program
D = Decriminalized
· Map reflects laws of states and territories, including laws which have not yet gone into effect. Does not reflect federal, tribal, or local laws.
· Map does not show legality (which can vary by state) of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as CBD or delta-8-THC, which have been legal at federal level since enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill.
Share link. Note the lack of more progressive cannabis laws in US Republican states (in the South for example). It's not just cannabis prohibition. See many US maps showing the failings of Republican states.
Prohibition plus;
Return to top. Maps. US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. It's also their higher overdose rates, worse healthcare, lower minimum wages, higher debt, higher murder rates, higher COVID death rates, higher incarceration rates, higher poverty rates, lower percentage of female legislators. Article linked above has many US maps. See Wikipedia: Republican states.
Note the low minimum wages in the Republican south: |
See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [534] (for Facebook, etc.). |
The federal minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. Even more in 2024 dollars. See graph below. |
History of the US federal minimum wage. $13.46 inflation-adjusted peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart. |
- See Wikipedia: Republican states.
- Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage.
- Wikipedia: List of European countries by minimum wage.
Minimum wage;
Return to top. Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. Simultaneous with the Republican-led drug war the GOP used the Senate filibuster to undemocratically severely restrict increases in the minimum wage at the federal level, and in GOP states.
US minimum wage would be $23 an hour in 2021 if it had kept up with productivity. |
Source article. [535]. |
- A $15 minimum wage would cost jobs, right? Probably not, economists say.
- There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
- The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation. Washington Post.
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Wage theft;
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Wage theft. And: Wikipedia: One Fair Wage.
- Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year. From: Economic Policy Institute.
- Across Portland, Restaurant Owners Are Running Afoul of the Feds for Pooling Employees’ Tips.
- Analyzing Ohio’s two $15 minimum wage proposals. Republicans oppose significantly helping tipped workers.
States with tipped workers getting the same minimum wage as everybody else still have plenty of restaurants. Restaurants can't compete based on how small their hourly wage is. Customers no longer need to pay huge tips because workers get a higher hourly wage regardless of tips. Customers can still leave tips, but don't feel extorted. Republican leaders oppose higher minimum wages (of all kinds, but especially for tipped workers) because as pointed out elsewhere on this page, a main goal of the GOP is to concentrate wealth. Besides opposing progressive cannabis laws.
From a US Bureau of Labor Statistics page is this wage info:
Percentile | 10% | 25% | 50%
(Median) |
75% | 90% |
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Hourly Wage | $ 8.94 | $ 11.43 | $ 15.36 | $ 20.00 | $ 28.89 |
Annual Wage | $ 18,600 | $ 23,770 | $ 31,940 | $ 41,600 | $ 60,100 |
Voter suppression;
Return to top. Vote out the many Republicans supporting backward cannabis laws. It is purposely made more difficult by the lack of no-excuse postal voting. Just one example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. Such as many states in the south.
See Wikipedia: Postal voting in the United States.
Lies of GOP radio
Return to top. Google image search: Top right wing radio hosts.
How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy. Republicans dominate talk radio. Especially in the Republican south with its backward cannabis laws.
See Wikipedia: Conservative talk radio. A percentage of people in many states do not have access to broadband internet, and desktop or laptop computers. Cell phones are a poor substitute for many people. So they are left with Republican propaganda radio, its code-word racism, and its constant disinformation.
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Senate filibuster
Return to top. A minority of Senators should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.
The War on Cannabis. It accelerated in the US, and that's where it will end. US Congress could legalize, reschedule, or remove cannabis from the federal schedule if the Republican filibuster were gone. Vote in US Senators who will abolish it. [536][537][538][539]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now.
Electoral college
Return to top. Presidents should not be elected who do not receive the highest number of votes.
Abolish the electoral college. Imagine the US without the 12 years of the Bush and Trump presidencies and their backward cannabis policies.
Ranked voting
Presidential veto
Return to top. Presidents should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.
See Wikipedia: Veto power in the United States.
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End war powers
Return to top. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush are responsible for the US War on Drugs, and the lie that massive incarceration is a solution. See more lies in
Reagan's frequent demonization of cannabis.
Presidents have too much power. Wars later determined to be started based on lies of Presidents, or done in secret:
Vietnam War: President Johnson and the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Cambodia: Nixon and Kissinger's secret B-52 carpet bombing campaign that helped create the unrest that led to Pol Pot's genocidal regime. And Kent State shootings in US.
Iraq War: President Bush and the lie of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Gaza. Canada vs US
Return to top. Wikipedia: Genocide Convention: defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: ...". It also defines: "Complicity in genocide." See: Nearly All 600,000 Kids in Rafah 'Injured, Sick, Malnourished,' Says UNICEF. And: UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering 'Full-Blown Famine'.
Compare genocidally complicit American politicians' actions to Canada's politicians stopping military aid to genocidal Israel. See Gallup Poll chart below showing US change from majority approval (Nov. 2023) to majority disapproval (March 2024) of Israeli military action in Gaza. Source: Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza. March 27, 2024 by Jeffrey M Jones. Gallup Poll. Watch Bernie Sanders video: "Mr. Netanyahu, do not insult the intelligence of the American people."
But Congress seems to be controlled by these people: Popular Christian Zionist leader John Hagee is no friend to Israel. "The head of the largest Christian Zionist organization is no friend to Israel — he wants an apocalypse there. ... For 20 years, he has built CUFI into the largest (at 8 million members), most-funded and most powerful 'pro-Israel' organization in America — dwarfing AIPAC, J Street, and others." Some of the same religious right with a history of support for the cannabis and drug wars.
Republican senator Lindsey Graham Equates Dropping Nukes on Japan With What Israel Should Do in Gaza: ‘Do Whatever You Have to Do to Survive’. "Reagan ordered a stoppage in 1982 after Israel attacked Palestinian fighters in Lebanon, a move he deployed more than once throughout the war. Ten years later, President George H.W. Bush delayed a $10 billion loan to Israel after the country pressed forward with plans to build settlements in the West Bank."
Trump and Biden
Return to top. Institute a mandatory retirement age for US Congress members and the President. [540]. Mandatory retirement exists for many US judges. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be President. And Trump is just too dumb: Video: Robert De Niro on Trump Being “So F**king Stupid”. See Robert Reich: Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump? And: Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay. An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia. Trump was not good for cannabis reform the last time around. We need more cannabis reform. That does not come from the Republican Party.
Biden can drop out
Return to top. Biden needs to drop out. A March 09, 2024 Newsweek article reports on a poll: Joe Biden Voters Tell Him to Drop Out. Democrats can pick another candidate at the Democratic convention. A generic Democrat beats Trump at the polls.
Generic Democrats
Return to top. Biden and Trump both underperform generic opponents, poll finds. See: A Plea to Biden: If You Truly Want to Prevent Trump Authoritarianism, Please Withdraw. And: Generic ballot : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight.
Rich pay few taxes
Return to top. Making History: U.S. Billionaires Paid Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class. October 10, 2019. On FAIR360.com. Sources listed on graph: Emmanual Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Average effective tax rates of 400 richest families and bottom 50% of US households. 1960-2018. Includes federal, state, and local taxes.
April 15, 2024. Biden: "If Congress enacted President Biden’s tax plan, tens of millions of workers and families would have their taxes cut, nobody making less than $400,000 would pay a penny more in taxes, and the wealthy and big corporations would finally pay their fair share—which would fully pay for the President’s tax cuts and investment agenda."
Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice. Republican dynasties created by regressive taxation: See: The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth. By Robert Reich.
Trump's 2017 tax cuts for the rich. |
On average, taxpayers in the income groups highlighted in yellow will incur a net cost (shown as a positive figure as this reduces the budget deficit), due in part to reduced healthcare subsidies. Higher income taxpayers receive a benefit via tax cuts (shown as a negative number as this increases the budget deficit). The percent of taxpayers in each income group is also shown for the 2023 period. "Taxpayer" in the chart refers to a tax return, meaning it could represent one person or a married couple filing jointly, among other options. [541][542]. Commons source. |
Wealth inequality
Return to top. Google: Buy, Borrow, Die. Tax strategy of the rich to pay few taxes. See Google Images search, too. See the ProPublica video and articles: [543][544]. And other articles: [545][546][547][548].
See: Wikipedia: Progressive tax. Mar 19, 2024: Sanders, UAW president press harder for shorter workweek. "Today, American workers are more than 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, despite this fact, millions of our people are working longer hours for lower wages," they wrote. "In fact, 28.5 million Americans now work over 60 hours a week and more than half of full-time employees work more than 40 hours a week." After adjusting for inflation, American workers make almost $50 less a week than they did 50 years ago, they said.
Jan 24, 2024 article: $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'. EXCERPTS: analysis found that the wealth of America's billionaires and centimillionaires has exploded in recent years as Republicans have enacted massive tax cuts for the rich ... "The cumulative $8.5 trillion of unrealized capital gains held by America's billionaires and centi-millionaires in 2022 has jumped by more than half–or $3.2 trillion–just since the last Fed survey year of 2019," END.
USA. The sorry state of the nation.
US federal income tax rate on billionaires averages only 8.2%. Click image to enlarge. |
"Most taxpayers, including firefighters and teachers, average a federal income tax rate of approximately 13.3%." |
Global warming
Return to top. World Population Clock: 8 Billion People (LIVE). We need more trees and less people. More oxygen, less carbon dioxide. To slow down global warming. "Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population." - Fertility rates. OECD Data. See country graphs. Also, inflation comes from an increasing population sharing one planet's resources.
Many US Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights (even early abortion). Another reason besides their backward cannabis laws to vote them out. Birth control and abortion (especially early abortion) is legal (even free) in many countries. That needs to expand further.
We need the lowest curve below, by lowering the birth rate.
Immigration
Return to top. The US and Europe can't import all the overpopulation of the world. Europe, especially, is already too densely populated. US Democrats and progressives in Europe need to limit immigration, or they will lose power, and cannabis policies will stagnate under right wing rule. Taxes on the rich will be cut yet more, which by definition means middle class taxes will go up, or stay up, to pay for it. Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.
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Roswell. Warming
Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer playlist. See his documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [549]. And: [550][551][552][553][554] [555][556][557][558] [559][560][561][562] [563]. See also the David Grusch disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [564][565][566][567] [568][569][570][571][572] [573][574][575][576]. See History channel: [577][578][579][580]. National Geographic: [581][582]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp.
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [583]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disc" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005.
Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [584] (page 14). [585][586].
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
Galactic Pot March
Return to top. See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Note: See the sections at the bottom of many pages: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation.
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