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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: Marijuana Supporters Hold Festival |
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Marijuana Supporters Hold Festival
KCBS) SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP)-The first-ever "Wonders of Cannabis Festival and Exhibition" is drawing thousands of people to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
It's organized by marijuana activist Ed Rosenthal, who says he wants to underscore what he sees as the public's right to use pot.
According to Rosenthal, 750-thousand Americans were arrested last year for marijuana offenses. He calls that "a waste of money, a waste of lives and a waste of psyche." He says cannabis has lots of uses for humans and "should be celebrated."
KCBS reporter Hnery Mulak attended the fair and met a self-described "conservative Christian grandma" who agrees with Rosenthal. LaRayne Jeffries published a book with her daughter documenting how medical marijuana helped her 16-year-old grandson, whose behavior had been so violent that he was thrown out of every school and treatment program he had entered, and had been treated by more than a dozen doctors. Jeffries tells KCBS that by three years old, her grandson was on Ritalin, and by six he'd been in two residential treatment facilities. She says he would have been "lost to the system" had someone not suggested giving him marijuana-laced brownies...which Jeffries says put him on the road to recovery.
The event, which concludes Sunday, features medical and legal consultants, cooking demonstrations and a  rolling competition.
Speakers include comedian Tommy Chong, of "Cheech and Chong" fame. He spent nine months in prison on a marijuana-related conspiracy conviction.
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_303132956.html
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