Concert - 40th Smoke-In / WDC - 4 July 2009
Thank You
The 4th of July Hemp Coalition would like to thank everyone for your support, especially ALL those without whose tireless efforts the event wouldn't have occurred.
40th Annual National Smoke-In on the Ma!!
Videos
Smoke-In History
A brief history of smoke-ins spanning from the Human Be-In in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to the late 70's in D.C.
Old Seventies Smoke-In
80's Smoke-In
2005 Smoke-In
The Rally started at "High Noon" in Lafayette Park
(North side of the White House).
From 12:00-3:00pm Activist speakers from the front lines of the "War On Drugs" comment on the progress and direction of ending marijuana prohibition and other aspects of drug policy reform.
Lafayette Park has been chosen as the location for our Rally because of its use by the woman's suffrage movement in the late 1800's when women where fighting for the right to vote. During that time the park across the street from the White House became known as "People's Park". The place where ordinary people could go to voice their grievances against government policy when no elected representative would represent them on Capitol Hill or in the White House.
At the peak of the Suffrage movement, when a Bill was passed by congress and sent to the President of the United States to be signed into law. Couriers would bring a copy of the legislation to women waiting by a smoldering cauldron hanging in the park. They would then burn the copy of the bill and declare their contempt for not being included in the representative system of democracy and demand their right to vote. The schedule is available here, more details will be added as the event draws closer.
Guest speakers from previous years:
Anise Jenkins, Stand up for Democracy
Wayne Turner, Initiative 59
William Perry, Declaration of Independence
Julian Heicklen, Professor, Penn State University
Keith Halderman, Hemp Historian
Chris Conrad, Hemp Author
Mikki Norris, Author of "Shattered Lives"
Jeff Jones, Oakland CBC
Elvy Musikka, Medical Marijuana Patient
Gary Reams, Quaker Prison Project
David Peel, Hempilation Activist
Robbie Robinson, N.Y. State C.A.N.
Dana Beal, Cures Not Wars
Ed Rosenthal, Author
Ed Tant, Columnist
Lennice Werth, VA. Against Drug Violence
Eric Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
Paul Cornwell, C.A.M.P.
Jean Marlow, N.C. Medical Marijuana
Joe Hart, Florida Medical Marijuana
Rob Lawrence, Prohibition Times
Janice Pressler, Mid Atlantic Activist Coal.
Ron Crickenberg, Libertarian Party
Frank Arndt, Free Speech
John P. Pylka, Marijuana Activist
Diane Fornbacher, Freedom Fighter Faith, DC Mayoral Candidate
Michael McClarren, Hemp Paper Maker
The DC Smoke-In was a success for Students for Sensible Drug Policy (
SSDP ). We had very good reactions from the attendees, and about 150 people got on the action alert email list. Tyler Smith from the National office of SSDP gave an excellent speech. We walked around in front of the White House displaying our YES WE CANNABIS banner, and a large number of people took pictures and wanted to hold the sign. I also took the opportunity to politely tell every police officer I saw to check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (
leap.cc ) when their shift ended. A few were even receptive to the information. I feel accomplished, like I made a real difference by being at the event.
~ Jason
We Need a Staple Gun
This video was shot at the Annual Fourth of July Yippie Smoke-In in 1988 by John Heyn and Seth Morris. They borrowed the camera and equipment from the publilc access studio I was running at the time. This event went on for years, and was at its peak in the 1980s. I'm Jeff Krulik and I thank Dana Beall for coming up with the title.
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