4:20 pm * The Global Marijuana
March Where well over 1 million cannabis law reform activists
in nearly 420 cities around the globe will be protesting. In
Nimbin we will once again aim to break our world record for
the most joints ever lit at once in the same place at the same
time. Be smart and bring a "joint"!
After the last Kombi has passed,
wait for the call and we will light up, and produce as much
smoke as possible for the cameras recording the event.
Viva la Fume!
Everything you need to know about what
we do at FourTwenty at MardiGrass.
http://nimbin-marijuana-march.420-webhosting.com
Well, probably not absolutely everything, for example, I can't
tell you where to source the cannabis that one needs to get
the full experience of participating in the longest running
420 demonstration on planet Earth, but I can tell you all you
need to know about the actual demonstration that takes place
at 4.20 pm on a MardiGrass Saturday.
First thing you need to know is that the Nimbin 420 is part
of a world wide Cannabis Demonstration that is taking place
in over 388 cities on Saturday the 3rd of May 2014.. millions
of smiling happy people out in the streets.... for real.
Max Stone, aka GaryBigBong, aka BigBong, aka BB is the man
most responsible for the last fifteen FourTwenties at Mardigrass,
BB picked 4:20 as the ideal time to 'light up' back in 1997
when he needed to find a time to do a regular live webcam smoking
session and BB picked 4:20 because of the 42nessness of 4:20,
42 of course being the answer to the the BIG Question in the
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.... What is the meaning of
Life, the Universe and Everything? If you haven't read the book,
you ought. I digress...
Quote from 1997 www.BigBong.org website...
“Whenever you light up your Big Bong Peace Pipe Scale
model you become a component of a Multi Chambered Peace Pipe
of Global Proportions. With each spin of the planet more and
more Peace Pipes are being built, as the structure enlarges,
the "View from the Moon" should be that of a wwwoven
wwweb of peace pipe party nodes, a kinetic global sculpture.
“
Anyway, looping back to the beginning of the 420 Demo, back
to the 1999 MardiGrass which set the underground tone that has
endured to this day, Max Stone usually high jacks the "Main
Mardi Grass Speakers" at 4:15.40 and sounds the 4 minute
20 second "roll up" alert for the 4 20 Demonstration.
In 1999 we handed out FREE Marijuana, over 200 all natural -
all organic cannabis "space balls" each wrapped with
a poem called FREE Marijuana. http://nimbinaustralia.com/mardigrass2000/freemarijuana.html
BB started to use the 'pen name' of Max Stone (the nonofficial
smokesperson from the radical fringe of the Australian Cannabis
Law Reform Movement = www.nimbinaustralia.com/aclrm) when he
went (with the Big Joint) to the People's Drug Summit in the
N.S.W Parliament’s back yard in 1999, a feature of which
was a regular 420 light up where everyone was urged to think
peace for pot and pot for peace. Anyway, a consequence of the
drug summit was that a crew of activists resolved to create
a Cannabis Cafe Demonstration Model to show the government (and
all who entered) the reality of a Cannabis in a legal Cafe setting.
And so it came to be that in April of the year 2000, on the
20th, at 4:20 in the afternoon, the H*E*M*P Bar started what
turned out to be an 8 year and four month long 'live to the
web' political demonstration of recreational and medicinal marijuana
use....
www.nimbinhempbar.com/webcam.html
The H*E*M*P* in H*E*M*P* Bar stood for Help End Marijuana Prohibition
and the H*E*M*P* BAR was never, a business in any real sense
of the word. The H.E.M.P. Bar came about because of a need to
find a new way to deal with Marijuana laws. From it's beginnings
in 1999, the H*E*M*P* Bar evolved into a place where people
who were truly interested in cannabis law reform could network
and combine some of their favourite things, things like drinking
coffee, smoking cannabis and talking about ways to Help End
Marijuana Prohibition.
The Staff at the H*E*M*P*Bar were activists at the "pointy
end" of cannabis law reform, headed up by Sam Sam (Do you
have a vision) and backed up by Cannabis Dave and Max Stone,
they saw the H*E*M*P*Bar as being an example of how things could
be done, designed to show Mr and Mrs Public the reality of marijuana
use; that it is a safe, social lubricant, much less disruptive
than alcohol.
“In reality" we received heaps of support and positive
feed back from more than 1,000,000 visitors from all walks of
life, we sent millions and millions of images up to the web
of real people using real cannabis, and not a single axe murder
or other civil disturbance!
In 'real life', our Guest Books are bulging with the testimony
of the effectiveness of our cannabis cafe model / cannabis law
reform activist kiosk, over 8 years worth of cannabis users
thoughts and experiences are recorded, and who can tell how
many photos have been taken of us whilst we have been taking
photographs of them with our web cameras, we have gigabytes
of images saved on our hard drives. More than a DVD's worth!
On the live webcams you could always see people laughing, smiling
and acting in a socially acceptable manner while under the influence
of this social intoxicant. What you DID NOT see was the insanity,
criminality and death alleged by the "Reefer Madness"
movie nor did anyone ever see the violent behaviour as incited
by alcohol and other chemicals/drugs.
We made a point of letting our patrons know that they were
welcome to smoke cannabis in front of our web cams as their
political statement that they believe cannabis use is socially
acceptable.
For 8 years and 4 months the H*E*M*P*Bar played it's part in
building up the "peace wave" that sweeps "mexican
wave style" around earth "all day - every day"
as citizens from all cultures on earth light up at 4:20. Yep,
that's what 420 is really all about, joining a global celebration
that is sending a smoke signal... "Pot for Peace and Peace
for Pot"........
What the H*E*M*P*Bar did is still HIGHLY ILLEGAL, not wrong
or evil, just illegal according to the law we are (still) trying
to change... When the law is unjust, resistance is duty!
All good things come to an end....
Since the H*E*M*P*Bar has been closed, the 420 has morphed
and moved out onto the main street, back out where it started,
anonymously. Indeed, a very strong case could be made that the
420 at MardiGrass is one of the meme's of the occupy movement.
The focus point of the Demonstration is the 420 Kombi, it is
the axle around which the 420 spins, the object is to capture
the reality of thousands of people demonstrating from as many
viewpoints as possible, so make sure you got your camera rolling,
you can be sure the POLITE Force cameras will be!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1FgEIpedxw
If you haven't seen the youtubes of a 420 or if you haven't
participated in a 420 before and/or this is the first time you
ever heard of 420, the basic concept is to occupy the street
for 4 minutes and 20 seconds, to sit shoulder to shoulder and
side by side with ones fellow activists, to re-energize oneself
for the upcoming year of cannabis activism... to demonstrate
your belief that it is time to CHANGE THE LAW... to dream the
dream …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59dIYyDdO1U
“I dream that one day in the not so far off future, that
everybody will be outside, in the streets, in every work place
and outside every house at 4.20 in the afternoon, perhaps smoking
pot, perhaps just thinking pot for peace and peace for earth
as they stand barefoot in a garden. And on that day, at that
time and from then on, our world will be at peace...
words assembled by www.rebelart.cyber-pod.com
