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Global Marijuana March[edit | edit source]

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1037 cities have participated from 88 nations or subnational areas since 1999. Google site search no longer works as well. 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, 2017, 2021 due to various problems. Putting quotes around multi-word city names helps focus the search: "New York City". This city, nation, or subnational area participated or signed up one year (or more) for the Global Marijuana March (GMM), Million Marijuana March (MMM), or 420. Cities and nations holding 4/20 events are also included in later years. Yearly maps. See: 420 and Global Cannabis March event lists by year. See: GMM links.

GMM/420 city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9.10. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22.23.24. 4/20 events have been included in the city lists since 2013. Yearly event links in many cases will no longer be added to city pages due to the amount of work involved. Such links are found in the yearly city lists. Graphics and crowd photos will also no longer be added to city pages in many cases. Graphics and photos can be found in this alphabetical flat list.

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2022[edit | edit source]

Return to top. See 2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. And: 420 event lists.

April 20: [1][2].
April 20: [3].
April 22: [4].

2019[edit | edit source]

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April 20: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].

2018[edit | edit source]

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420: [10][11].

2017[edit | edit source]

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GMM: [12]

2015[edit | edit source]

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GMM: [13].

2014[edit | edit source]

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2013[edit | edit source]

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GMM, May 4:

Global Cannabis March 2013 – Chicago.
Facebook: Global Cannabis March 2013 - Chicago.

2012[edit | edit source]

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Facebook: Global Cannabis March - Chicago.

2010[edit | edit source]

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Facebook: Saturday, May 8th Chicago Marijuana March!

2009[edit | edit source]

Return to top. See GMM 2009, GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org archive, 2.

Dana-AID 2009:

Friday to Monday May 15 - 18, 2009 in Charleston, Illinois. Court support events, marches, and more.

GMM:

Chicago: Richey richey.gupta(at)gmail.com 847-275-0473 . or Dan Linn danlinn(at)illinoisnorml.org 847 341 0591 Federal Plaza Saturday, May 2nd (at) NOON.
Link: http://antidote.50megs.com/html/chicago.htm
Blog with Youtube video
Participants marched with police escorts through the city, displaying signs, singing, dancing and chanting in peaceful protest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RO5NBddrvw

2008[edit | edit source]

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Chicago: Richey richey.gupta(at)gmail.com 847-275-0473 . or Dan Linn danlinn(at)illinoisnorml.org 847 341 0591 200 people in '07, 40 marching. Federal Plaza Saturday, May 3rd (at) NOON.

2006[edit | edit source]

Return to top. See 2006 Global Marijuana March map.

GMM:

Link: http://www.illinoisnorml.org
Report (from old GMM site):

After spending a lot of the last two weeks helping promote the Global Marijuana March event from word I was getting out of Chicago, on may 5, at 2:15 in the afternoon I hopped on a Trialways bus head for the Chi-town in what would be over six an half hour bus trip one way.

I had a two hour lay-over in Bloomington, Illinois so I pulled out my lil CD player and we listen to the Individuals Something To Smoke To CD, talked, partied while waiting on the bus from Bloomington to Chicago.

I'm starting to feel good about this trip thinking it is Chicago we should draw 100 maybe 300 people out. I would have never have guessed the weekend was going to be a nightmare.

My bus arrives in Chicago at 8:35 Friday night; Richey was there to pick me up just as he said he would be. I put my bags into the trunk of Richey's car, and we were off to Windy Allen's place. This is where the nightmare begins!

Richey forgets, but that’s OK, Windy will have some when we get there. She did and that was the best thing about the first night in Chicago.

We pull up to Windy's house, and I get my bags out of Richey car while he calls Windy on his cell phone so she will come out and let us in her place. Windy lives in a basement room, she offered me a spot on her floor about a week ago and I excepted, thinking it would be a swept floor, I was wrong. Windy comes out to meet us we chat for a lil, and she invites us in. Richey said, he had to be going, but before leaving we talked more about Richey coming back the next morning to pick us up before the march. We all agreed on between 9:30 and 10:00 in the morning before Richey takes off for the night.

Windy and I headed into her one room basement apartment. Books and papers flung around the room, and in Windy's words the counters are somewhat clean. Now I'm a lil upset with Richey for dropping me off at this place. I would have stayed at the bus station, it was cleaner (I found out later Richey had never been in her apt.). I put my bags on a chair and Windy ask if I want anything to eat or drink. I didn't want anything but she was persistent so I said I would drink some coffee.

She picked up a jar of water next to several other jars of water dump out some of the water added a couple spoonfuls of coffee and stuck it in the microwave. I sit the coffee down never touching it or drinking a drop of it.

I finally got Windy to go out to the van and medicate before I had to try and sleep on that floor.

Windy was in charge of finding a sound system or bullhorn from the way she talked. She said she would pick-up a bullhorn on the way to the march in the morning.

I woke up with a killer backache from sleeping on the floor. Richey got there at 10:00 because of Windy dragging ass we didn't leave her place until after 11:00 and she had us running here and there before we even headed to pick up a bullhorn for the march.

Windy was in Radio Shack for over ten minutes telling Richey on the Cell phone she was getting the bullhorn while we was double parked in the street waiting for her. When Windy does return it is without a bullhorn. So now no sound system or bullhorn at the event.

We pull up in front of the Federal Plaza at 12:10 there was a small group of people that showed up for the march and there were just as many policemen.

I got out of Richey car a lil disgusted about the show in people and the big show of law enforcement.

My bag was heavy and I walked right past the small group that had gathered already so I could sit me bag down. I didn't get a chance to thank that group of people for coming out, before they took off.

I'm sure the show in law enforcement detoured some from gathering with us.

As the day went on we had a few stand with us, but never having 15 or more people at onetime there nor did anyone carry any signs. Even I was guilty of not bringing my own sign, no jail for pot, and I gave my Free the Vancouver 3 to the Individuals because I didn't want to carry it back from the Smoke Out protest last year in Chicago, The cop's dwindled as an hour or so pasted to one police officer and one paddy wagon.

Here I want to plug I believe it was Channel 7 in Chicago. They didn't cover us, but they did come out with I camera truck. They went bye, went around the block and bye us again. They were there to cover it if more people would have showed up.

At 3:00 in the afternoon Richey was ready to go when it was down to four or five of us. Dan Lynn from NORML, Richey of Lokal 420 Jason of US Marijuana Party of Illinois and I.

Richey and I took Wendy to her van dropped her off. We head to the bus station. I got the next ticket to Peoria which would be 7:00am the next morning.

Now I have to spend the night at the bus station. I let Richey know that I would have to hang around the bus station all day and night.

Richey called a buddy, the next thing I knew we were headed for a college party. Oh to be young again, the drinking games they come up with, and drinking out of the keg as you are upside down. Oh what fun they have! But there was not much open smoking of marijuana.

I know free beer will get people to events and rallies, and it did remind me that I'm not a young man anymore.

Richey took me back to the bus station around 11:00pm it would be another eight hours before I would be heading home and another 12 hours before I would be home.

I want to thank the ones that showed up, well you know the saying '---- the rest of you'.

Richey got some video with my cam, not sure what's on it yet but will have it up in a day or two.

On behalf of the ones that were to organize this event in Chicago, sorry.

They say if it doesn't play in Peoria, it won't play anywhere. Well next year a Global Marijuana March will play in Peoria!

Richard Rawlings

US Marijuana Party

Cannabis is safer[edit source]

Return to top. Full site / Mobile. To Top. Or End. Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.

See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: 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. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.

Wikipedia: Legality of cannabis by U.S. jurisdiction. 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. And mirror. See MPP article on state CBD/low THC laws. For laws concerning hemp derivatives see: [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Share link. And mirror.

   Legal for recreational use
   Legal for medical use
   No comprehensive medical program
  ●   Decriminalized

Map reflects laws of states and territories, including laws not in effect yet. Does not reflect federal, tribal, local laws. Map does not show legality (varies by state) of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as CBD or delta-8-THC, which have been legal at federal level since the 2018 Farm Bill. See PNG map (for Facebook).

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GOP War on Poor[edit source]

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And middle class. Since low minimum wage lowers wages above it too.

"Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires.

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Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. New Hampshire in Senate only. Get PNG map noting GOP states.
See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [22] (for Facebook, etc.).

See many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [23] [24].

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.

Republicans like the current slave labor pay for farmworkers. An expanded guest worker program would give them better pay.

US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation. Nov 25, 2024. "Nearly half of the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, ... as well as many dairy and meatpacking workers."

All wealth to top[edit source]

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Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Congressional Budget Office.

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Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. On Commons.

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Robert Reich. Source and comments.

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Tax cuts for rich[edit source]

Return to top. Trump tax proposals. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

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Republican states[edit source]

Return to top. See: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. Note the states in the South, for example.

In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.

2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.

Wikipedia: Maternal mortality in the United States. See PNG map with note.
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Canadian healthcare[edit source]

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Canadians are richer, healthier, safer than Americans. Their universal healthcare. Their far lower murder rate due to much lower percentage with handguns. 2.
Country	Median wealth per adult. US dollars.	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP.
Canada	$151,248 (2022)	$6,319 (2022)
USA	$93,271 (2022)	$12,555 (2022)

Country	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births.	Life expectancy. 2022
Canada	11 (2020)	81.3 years
USA	33 (2021)	77.4 years

Country	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2020	Murder rate per 100,000. 2022
Canada	5.0	2.3
USA	6.3	6.4
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Canada vs US GOP[edit source]

Return to top. Canada has legal recreational and medical cannabis across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan. As for the US read a UnitedHealthcare denial horror story. Stats article: "The company dismissed about one in every three claims in 2023 — the most of any major insurer. That's twice the industry average of 16%". See Wikipedia: Medical debt. It's much higher in the US. US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [26][27][28].

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Average annual health spending. US dollars (PPP) per person. OECD countries and more.

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Future elections: Vote.org and Vote411.org. Eventually people may realize that voting for Democrats is the only way to raise state and federal minimum wages from $7.25 to at least $15 an hour, regain abortion rights, get expanded Medicaid in the South, and flip the Trump tax cuts for the rich (2) back to progressive taxation.

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Carbon-free energy[edit source]

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Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer (SG) playlist. SG video channels: [29][30][31][32][33]. See his documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [34][35]. SG witness testimonies: [36][37][38][39]. National Press Club: 2023. 2001. SG documentaries for free: [40][41][42][43] [44][45][46][47] [48][49][50]. JustWatch: [51][52][53] [54][55][56]. And: [57][58][59][60] [61][62][63][64] [65][66][67][68] [69][70][71]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [72]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [73][74][75][76] [77][78][79][80][81] [82][83][84][85][86][87]. See History channel: [88][89][90] [91][92][93][94]. National Geographic: [95][96][97][98]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [99].

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. [100]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" 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. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [101][102][103] [104][105][106]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.

July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.

Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.

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: [107] (page 14). [108][109][110][111].

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."