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Sterling on Justice & Drugs: Hempfest is huge, but is it good politics?
It is easy for well funded, self proclaimed leaders of the drug reform movement (one of whom wore a jester's hat at a rally in the early 90's on Boston Common) to chastise rallies with an elitist rant.
MassCann does not promote the civil disobedience, that would be a violation of the Court order that permits it to happen, as organizers are enjoined from inciting unlawful behavior.
Without the Boston Freedom Rally, which has introduced a whole generation of Boston area college students to the "movement" and alternative candidates for office I dare say the "movement" would not be where it is today nationally as these students get involved and move on to other areas of the country. There would have been no Question 2 in Massachusetts as there would have been no MassCann, an organization of volunteers, without a sugar daddy, to lay the foundation. In 2011 when we expect the same money that paid for Question 2 will be conducting a mmj initiative in Massachusetts our event will, as it was in 2007, be the unofficial, and if the people with the money want to share credit the official, kick-off of the signature gathering campaign. It is an event at which with enough petitioners, one-fifth to one quarter of the signatures needed to put a question on the ballot can be obtained in six hours.
Instead of contributing to bringing us together rants like Eric's are divisive.
Attorney Steven S. Epstein
Clerk, Treasurer and Database Manager
MassCann/NORML
epeggs@aol.com
Photo: Scott Gacek
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Did he look something like this? Note this is not a picture of Mr. Sterling but imagining what he might have looked like on the Boston Common. ;) (MikeCann)
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