Tampere, Finland

City info

 * Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITY_NAME

Links

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 * Banners, flyers, posters, photos:
 * http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gallery.marihemp.com+Tampere

2009
Tampere: Lasse Pihlainen +35845 1368793 lasse_pihlainen(at)hotmail.com

2008
Tampere: Lasse Pihlainen lasse_pihlainen(at)hotmail.com

People here in Tampere are becaming quite aware of the "hamppumarssi" (marijuana march) and now they need to be informed how widespread the march really is.

This year (2008) is becoming clearly the year of the house searches.. Local police officers have allready busted more homegrowers than in the whole last year. So it's going to be a significant publicity while the audience (local people) will hear about police statistics. Courtrooms are filled with drugcases, not allways related to cannabis. But this is a good opportunity to get the message to the people in the rat race. I and my fellow organisers are going to make the point very clear to the audience and to the officers that this cannot continue anymore. There has to be a solution to rewrite some laws or attitudes.

While EU is still lagging in changing the political views concerning medical use and enterntainment(al), we must affect on local peoples minds that hemp is a very useful thing and productive material in every sense. On the last years march [2007], we had 100-200 ppl and had great time and lot's of cool people and some speeches also. In fact i think we had a little degeneration in audience compared to last years...

People are not takin the Marijuana March too seriously. My wise guess is that there is tens of thousands of people (Tampere) supporting marijuana but they are afraid to join the work because of its abstraction..

We have lots of young people that dare and care about it but we need also the approval of older generations for this drug to become widely available. It's very common in Tampere to know someone who grows for itself and homegrowing has become the main source of cannabis here. We have been heralding to establish the first coffee shop in Finland. It would be complicated but eventually, someone will stand up and take the destination for himself to become a national hero among us! Afterall, the story of Amsterdam began from the same cratch, too. (could i make myself anymore obscure..) Too much people is over exaggerating their fears to show up and to become stigmatized as a criminal.

Next year it will be called somethin like "Hamppumarssi X" because it's been organized this far allready 9 times in Finland. The concept is going to change for something better and bigger and more public. We have lots of volunteers who are able to organize their own familiar fields with goods. So there gonna be like a circus in the middle of the town. I'm very excited.

2007
Posters, flyers, banners: http://gallery.marihemp.com/finland2007mmm-graphics

2006
Posters, flyers, banners:
 * http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers/vp_hm06_a3poster1hki
 * http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers/vp_hm06_a3poster2hki
 * http://gallery.marihemp.com/2006flyers/vp_hm06_a4flyerhki