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• Italy. Cannabis-related links.
• millionmarijuanamarch.info
• fuoriluogo.it
• legalizzala.it
• confinizero.it

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• Google Maps: Rome.
• Google images.
• Wikipedia: Rome.
• Wikitravel: Rome.
• WeBeHigh.com: Rome.

Global Marijuana March Edit

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GMM (years signed up). This city participated or signed up one year (or more) for the Global Marijuana March (GMM), or the Million Marijuana March (MMM). 219 cities from 41 nations signed up for May 4, 2013 or thereabouts.175 cities from 33 nations signed up for May 5, 2012 or thereabouts. See also: 4/20 event lists. 809 different cities have signed up from 72 different nations since 1999.

Global Marijuana March links.

See also: Local links and other links. See the GMMizer (edited by Raphaël Boniton). Latest links for Global Marijuana March. See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Years signed up: Browse the basic GMM city lists by year: ~ 1999. 2000. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 2010. 11. 12. 13. ~ Or search them. Add city name to search (nation, state, province is optional).

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2012 Edit

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See Global Marijuana March 2012 map, and GMM signup.

GMM:

• Facebook: Million Marijuana March (Rome).

2011 Edit

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See Global Marijuana March 2011 map.

GMM:

• Facebook: Marijuana March Italy 7 May 2011.

2009 Edit

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See GMM 2009, and GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org archive, 2.

Rome: giornatamondiale(at)millionmarijuanamarch.info INFO LINE: 0039 3393393589 Mefisto gica(at)inventati.org . http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.info

GMM. May 9, 2009.

• Photos: http://www.demotiximages.com/news/million-marijuana-march-street-parade-rome
• Media: http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/05/10/2565617.htm
• Link: http://www.demotix.com/news/million-marijuana-march-street-parade-rome
• Preview: http://www.chaishop.com/event/970327
• Preview: http://www.goatrance.de/goabase/party/details/44736
• Preview: reggae.it article and comments
• Facebook: MILLION MARIJUANA MARCH (N.L.Crew Truck).

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Share link: www.cannabis.wikia.com/video Youtube: Global Marijuana March's Channel. Featured cities with videos.   Some featured city pages with videos: ~ Amsterdam, Netherlands. Athens, Greece. Belem, Brazil. Berlin, Germany. Budapest, Hungary. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Florianopolis, Brazil. Madrid, Spain. Medellin, Colombia. Mexico City, Mexico. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Moscow, Russia. New York City, New York, USA. Nimbin, Australia. Oslo, Norway. Paris, France. Portland, Oregon, USA. Prague, Czech Republic. Recife, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rome, Italy. Santiago, Chile. Seattle, Washington, USA. Toronto, Canada. Warsaw, Poland. ... Use these search terms to search the web too. Youtube and Google Video searches for marijuana marches (add city name): Marijuana March Google. Spelled with a j. Marcha Marihuana Google. Spelled with an h. Spanish. "Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana". Marcha Millon Porros Google. Spanish. "Marcha del millon de porros". Marcha Maconha Google. Portuguese (Brazil). "Marcha da Maconha". Marcha Marijuana Google. Portuguese (Portugal). "Marcha Global da Marijuana". Marcha Cannabis Google. Spanish (Chile). "Marcha Global por el Cannabis". Marche Cannabis Google. French-speaking areas, and other areas. "Marche Mondiale du Cannabis" and "Marche Cannabis" and "Cannabis Marche". Marche Marijuana Google. French. "Marche Mondiale pour la Marijuana". Also, "Marche Marijuana" and "Marijuana Marche" in various languages. Manifestation Marijuana Google. French. Montreal some years, for example. Manifestation International de la Marijuana. Marsz Konopi Google. Polish. "Marsz Konopi". Click (or right-click) the preceding search links. Then add a city name, and search again. Remove or add search terms to find other events, and other cannabis-related videos. Use these search terms to search the web too. See also: Category:City pages with embedded videos Category:Pages with embedded music videos Category:Video help Category:Videos Featured cities with videos Many other GMM links, including videos. The "HQ" (high quality) button, or the higher resolutions, linked under some of the videos increases both the video and audio quality of the videos. On embedded videos you can click, or right-click, the Youtube links to go to the Youtube page to watch the larger versions.

2009 Global Marijuana March in Rome. May 9, 2009. Youtube link.

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2009 Global Marijuana March in Rome. Youtube link. Some great long crowd shots in the above video. Especially at 38 seconds onwards when the camera rotates to the other side of the sound truck and we see more long crowd shots.

• Report: stopthedrugwar.org article:

The single largest event took place in Rome, where organizers estimated the crowd gathered at the Plaza San Giovanni at somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000. In Rome, marchers demanded repeal of Italy's L.49 drug law, which they complained is "the toughest in the West."

"What we want is the cancellation of L.49, the end of arrests and increasing persecution against users and self-growers, the right to relief for patients, the end of 1930-style terrorist campaign on media against all scientific evidence, and the official revaluation of the multiple properties of this ancient plant," said Rome event organizer Alberto Sciolari.

Police and the media downplayed the numbers, Sciolari said, but the event was huge. "The plaza was completely full, and there were still thousands of people trying to get in," he reported. "The trade unions held their May Day concert there last weekend, and the TV talked about 'almost one million people' being there then, and our crowd was only slightly smaller."

Rome has emerged as the monster of the Global Marijuana Marches, drawing about 35,000 in 2007 and doubling that to 70,000 last year, before exploding this year. That's no surprise, said Sciolari. "Every year there is a sharp increase in participants, probably because it is a regular event, and people learned to wait for it much in advance, and tell friends, without much need of promotion. The date is fixed year after year, and then you just have to confirm that still it will take place despite all, and people are happy to show up," he said.

One reason for the huge crowds in Rome could be anti-government sentiment and rejection of the conservative values and policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "This wasn't specifically anti-Berlusconi, but against the 'culture' he and his government spread and support," Sciolari noted. "The people mocked and laughed at them rather than taking their positions seriously. Although we are seeing repression and security campaigns in Italy that are passing any limit, pot lovers and patients know that, Berlusconi or not, no government will give anything for free."

"It's always large in Rome," said Joep Oomen, coordinator of ENCOD, the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies. "It is like it is a yearly event for the whole nation, although some people say most go for the party than for anything else."

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2008 Edit

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See 2008 GMM, and GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org archive, 2.

Rome: giornatamondiale(at)millionmarijuanamarch.info INFO LINE: 0039 3393393589 Mefisto gica(at)inventati.org . 35,000 Marched in '07. Sunday, May 4th.

GMM. Sunday, May 4, 2008:

• Link: http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.info/index2008.html
• Photos: http://charinrome.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-day-and-million-marijuana-march.html
• Photos: MMM 03-05-08 - a set on Flickr.

2008 Global Marijuana March in Rome. Youtube link.

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2008 Global Marijuana March in Rome. May 3, 2008. Youtube link.

2007 Edit

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See Global Marijuana March 2007 map.

April 14, 2007 event:

• Poster: http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.info/gallery/manifesti/manif_streetantipro_07b

2007 Anti-Prohibition Street Parade in Rome. April 14, 2007. Youtube link. Some great crowd shots interspersed throughout.

2006 Edit

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See Global Marijuana March 2006 map.

GMM. May 6, 2006:

• Preview: http://confinizero.it/?q=treni_pullman_mmm_2006
• Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/04/1057932_comment.php#1060150
• Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/1064832.php
• Preview: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/1064832_comment.php#1064839

2005 Edit

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See Global Marijuana March 2005 map.

GMM:

• Photos, article: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/788215.php

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See this list of incarceration rates by country. Compare the rates. Due to the Drug War the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world. See: The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. Democrats follow. Everybody pays. The Republican-dominated NRA is greatly responsible. See: National Rifle Association and mandatory minimum sentencing. See cost of U.S. drug war: 1.5 trillion dollars! Let's Break the Taboo! Cannabis is safer! Share link.

The purple elephant in the room:

Cost of drug warEdit

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Cost of U.S. drug war:

Cost of U.S. drug war. Even $1.5 trillion dollars is conservative since many crimes are committed in order to get money for drugs. Correction costs alone average $30,600 per inmate in 2007. See: Portal: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. See: Economics - Drug War Facts. See: 32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs - Business Insider. See: The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition.

Breaking the Taboo Edit

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Home Page (BreakingTheTaboo.info). More info [5]. See TabooBreakers on Twitter. See Global Commission on Drug Policy and Facebook page. Quotes from video clips on the trailer: President Richard Nixon: "total war against public enemy number one". President Ronald Wilson Reagan: "When we say no to drugs it will be clear that we mean absolutely none". President George H.W. Bush: "Some think there won't be room for them in jail. We'll make room". Morgan Freeman: "Since 1971 2.5 trillion dollars have been spent on the War on Drugs". Look who's breaking the taboo: Richard Branson, Kate Winslet, Sam Branson, Morgan Freeman, and many more. See also: MarijuanaMajority.com. Share link. Full version in English is no longer available online. Hey Richard Branson, George Soros, Peter Lewis, or whoever, please buy it and put it back online!

Trailer preview. Youtube link.

Full video (Portuguese and English version) Youtube link for more info and sizes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking cannabis Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking cannabis after winning Mr. Olympia in 1975. From the 1977 docudrama Pumping Iron. Youtube link.

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Quentin Tarantino. Video: War on Drugs is Like Slavery. Tarantino - War on Drugs is Like Slavery. [6]. Wikipedia: Quentin Tarantino. Youtube link. Source video. George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, and The Young Turks.

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• See Category: Cannabis is safer, and Portal: Influential cannabis users.

Video. Beer & police versus cannabis Beer Industry and Police Organizations Versus Cannabis Legalization. California Proposition 19. Youtube link.

Video. Tips from former tobacco smokers.   Youtube link. Cigarette Ingredients - Chemicals in Cigarettes. Tri-County Cessation Center. "The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret. ... While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette – 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer." See: Wikipedia: Tobacco harm reduction. "In October 2008 the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) became the first medical organization in the U.S. to officially endorse tobacco harm reduction as a viable strategy to reduce the death toll related to cigarette smoking." [7] [8] Joel Nitzkin: "So if we can figure that the nicotine in the e-cigarettes is basically a generic version of the same nicotine that is in prescription products, we have every reason to believe that the hazard posed by e-cigarettes would be much lower than one percent, probably lower than one tenth of one percent of the hazard posed by regular cigarettes." [9] [10]

Quotes in the image to the left (and in the text below) are from the U.S. government's landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. The full text of the report is available for free online at the above link, and is searchable. The table of contents by chapter is on the right side. Quotes below are followed by their references. Emphasis added.

Page 109: "Indeed, epidemiological data indicate that in the general population marijuana use is not associated with increased mortality. 138"

- 138. Sidney S, Beck JE, Tekawa IS, Quesenberry CP Jr, Friedman GD. 1997a. Marijuana use and mortality. American Journal of Public Health 87:585—590.

Page 107: "When heavy marijuana use accompanies these symptoms [amotivation], the drug is often cited as the cause, but no convincing data demonstrate a causal relationship between marijuana smoking and these behavior characteristics. 23"

- 23. Chait LD, Pierri J. 1992. Effects of smoked marijuana on human performance: A critical review. In: L Murphy and A Bartke, Editors, Marijuana/Cannabinoids: Neurobiology and Neurophysiology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Pp. 387—424.

Page 119: "There is no conclusive evidence that marijuana causes cancer in humans, including cancers usually related to tobacco use."

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Compare the IOM report quotes to this quote about tobacco:

"Every week, 52 weeks a year, some 8000 people in this country die from tobacco-related diseases, their lives ended prematurely by an aggressive tobacco industry and the addictive properties of nicotine." - American Journal of Critical Care, March 2002. Nursing, our public deaths, and the tobacco industry. By Ruth E. Malone.

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