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See also: Europe. Cannabis-related links.

Note: This regional GMM city list is only through 2012. For the latest worldwide GMM city list go here.

The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is also known as the Million Marijuana March (MMM), and various other names. GMM events worldwide are held the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts, depending on the city. See Global Marijuana March links for many links for reports, photos, videos, press, media, posters, maps, flyers, etc.. See also: Legality of cannabis by country.

Right-click any region for its city list.
2004 MMM in Madrid, Spain.

Global Marijuana March links.

Latest links for Global Marijuana March. See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches.
See the latest GMM graphics, and worldwide GMM city list and map.

GMM/420 city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 1.2.3.4.5. 6.7.8.9. 2010. 11.12.13.14.15. 16.17.18.19.20. 21.22.23.24. 4/20 events have been included in the city lists since 2013.

City lists. Global Marijuana March, 420. Crowd photos.

Oslo 2012 GMM Norway 5 — Oslo, Norway. 2012 GMM.

Valletta 2012 GMM Malta — Valletta, Malta. 2012 GMM.

Toulouse 2012 GMM France — Toulouse, France. 2012 GMM.

Vienna 2012 GMM Austria 2 — Vienna, Austria. 2012 GMM.

France 2011 GMM 9 — 2011 GMM in France. Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. Image is derived from *Liberty Leading the People*.

Bratislava 2011 GMM Slovakia — 2011 GMM in Bratislava, Slovakia.

2009 GMM Portuguese — 2009 Global Marijuana March in Portugal.

Madrid 2008 GMM — 2008 GMM in Madrid, Spain.

Leon 2006 GMM Spain — 2006 Global Marijuana March in Leon, Spain.

Moscow 2004 MMM 5 — 2004 Million Marijuana March in Moscow, Russia.

Ljubljana 2003 MMM Slovenia — 2003 Million Marijuana March in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

GMM cities in Europe[]

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180 cities from 33 nations in Europe (and the North Atlantic) have signed up one or more years since 1999. Russia is in both Europe and Asia. 15 cities have signed up since 1999 from Russia. See cities in Global Marijuana March Russia. See: Austria. Belarus. Belgium. Bulgaria. Croatia. Cyprus. Czech Republic. Denmark. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Hungary. Iceland. Ireland. Italy. Lithuania. Luxembourg. Malta. Moldova. Netherlands. Norway. Poland. Portugal. Romania. Serbia. Slovakia. Slovenia. Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. United Kingdom. Ukraine. (Note: To edit this list click any city, or see Template:GMM cities Europe.)

GMM cities in Russia[]

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See: Global Marijuana March Russia

More graphics[]

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2000 Million Marijuana March in London, UK.
Lifetime prevalence of cannabis use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years old) in nationwide surveys among the general population. The darker the shade of green, the higher the percentage. Data taken from EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction). [1] Click the image for more info, and to see the survey years for each nation. See Adult lifetime cannabis use by country for a detailed chart with the exact percentage of cannabis use for each country.

Cannabis is safer[]

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See articles: Cannabis is safer. And:
History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects.

See 2024 GMM-420 on Fandom and on Shoutwiki. See 2024 talk page (no need to log in) to leave event links, and especially compilations.

Have we really been sending people to jail for this — **Source and comments.**

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Portugal's decrim[]

Return to top. See: Portugal. Cannabis-related links and decriminalization. See the utter failure of the US Republican-led drug war and mass incarceration: It is killing Americans at the rate of one Vietnam War every 6 months.

There were around 112,100 US drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending August 31, 2023, at a rate of 307 deaths per day. 335 deaths per million US population. Only around 10 to 72 total deaths per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See timeline table of yearly overdose deaths by European country.

Timeline of yearly drug overdose deaths in Portugal — **63 in 2020. Sources: [2][3].**


Chart from: December 15, 2020 article: Scotland's drug death crisis in six charts. BBC News.

Harm reduction[]

Return to top. End the expensive, incarceration-heavy US drug war with Portuguese and Canadian single-payer universal healthcare, and Portuguese decriminalization.

Government debt[]

Return to top. Share link: Debt ceiling. See: Wikipedia: US debt ceiling.

Save $1.5 trillion:[]

Per year in the US:

Single-payer[]

Return to top. Republicans oppose single-payer universal healthcare. US would save 1.5 trillion dollars per year if it instituted Canadian universal healthcare. That is 5.4% of US GDP.

Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. Former US Lawmaker Finally Enjoys Social Policies He Fought for—In Europe.

Medical bankruptcies[]

Return to top. See: Health Care Costs Number One Cause of Bankruptcy for American Families. And: Americans have high personal medical debt, unlike Canadians. [4][5][6]. High student debt is another problem Americans have due to Republican politicians. Unlike Canadians. Changing the age of adulthood to 17 would free up a year of education money.

The evolution of medicine — **Source and comments.**

Total household debt by type over time — **US household debt at all time high.** By quarters. 1st quarter 2003 to recent times. **Chart.**

US is Broke, not Woke. Healthcare spending and debt ceiling.

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Richer Canadians[]

Return to top. Many sleepy Americans can't do the math concerning healthcare costs and medical debt. Also, incarceration and family debt due to the GOP-led war on drugs. Also US student debt, and US household debt due to GOP's low minimum wages, etc...

Medicare means waste less money on bureaucracy — **Source and comments.**

Canadians are richer on average than Americans, and they have more energy because Canadians don't have to take 3 jobs, go bankrupt, or sell their homes, due to medical and student debt. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. See: Student debt balance is forgiven after 15 years payment in Canada.

USA. Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'.

Medicare spends 1.4% on bureaucracy. Insurance companies spend 16-20%. See chart. We need Medicare for All.

Nearly a third of our health care dollars (mostly outside Medicare and Medicaid) go to something other than health care.

Healthier Canadians[]

Return to top. See: End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization. Cannabis is legal across Canada. See Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada.

Canadians are richer, healthier, safer than Americans. Their universal healthcare. Their far lower murder rate due to much lower percentage with handguns. 2.
Country	Median wealth per adult. US dollars.	Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP.
Canada	$151,248 (2022)	$6,319 (2022)
USA	$93,271 (2022)	$12,555 (2022)

Country	Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births.	Life expectancy. 2021
Canada	11 (2020)	82.6 years
USA	33 (2021)	76.3 years

Country	Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2020	Murder rate per 100,000. 2021
Canada	5.0	2.1
USA	6.3	6.8

US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [7][8][9].

Health spending[]

Return to top. Republicans are responsible for the large US government deficit. Because they support the wasteful US healthcare system over the much cheaper single-payer universal healthcare in Canada and elsewhere. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.

Universal health coverage around the world — See **more countries.**

Wikipedia: Health spending by country. Percent of GDP. See Gross domestic product. 11.2% for Canada in 2022. 16.6% for the US in 2022.

See Wikimedia chart source.

Wikipedia: Health spending per capita. OECD countries. US dollars, using economy-wide PPPs. Public, private, and total expenditures. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022.

See Wikimedia chart source.

Poor and sick:[]

Return to top. Canadians are healthier on average, and their preventive healthcare is much cheaper! Versus US Emergency Room care. See Wikipedia: Health spending as a percent of GDP by country (gross domestic product). And: Wikipedia: List of countries with universal health care.

"The Easy-to-Digest Republican Party Platform" from Michael Moore has this image: "Keep 'em poor and sick".

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Republican states;[]

Prohibition plus;[]

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See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps. It's also their low minimum wages, high Covid death rates, poor healthcare, high household debt, high gun death rates, high homicide rates, high incarceration rates, etc.. See: Drug war and other excessive uses of force. They are autocratic gerrymandered states that have long avoided federal oversight due to the Republican filibuster. See Wikipedia: Filibuster in the United States Senate.

The US Republican Party wants to concentrate wealth at the top. So they want most people to be Broke, not Woke: Trickle-down economics. See: Beyond drug war and conservatism.

The federal minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. Even more in 2023 dollars. See graph below.

Note the low minimum wages in the Republican south:
See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [10] (for Facebook, etc.).

History of the US federal minimum wage. $13.46 inflation-adjusted peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. See Wikimedia GIF chart.

Voter suppression;[]

Return to top. Vote out the many Republicans supporting backward cannabis laws. It is purposely made more difficult by the lack of no-excuse postal voting. Just one example of Republican voter suppression in GOP states. Such as many states in the south.

See Wikipedia: Postal voting in the United States.

Lies of GOP radio[]

Return to top. Google image search: Top right wing radio hosts.

How Fox News and the Right-Wing Media Machine Made My Dad Crazy. Republicans dominate talk radio. Especially in the Republican south with its backward cannabis laws.

See Wikipedia: Conservative talk radio. A percentage of people in many states do not have access to broadband internet, and desktop or laptop computers. Cell phones are a poor substitute for many people. So they are left with Republican misinformation radio.

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Senate filibuster[]

Return to top. A minority of Senators should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.

The War on Cannabis. It accelerated in the US, and that's where it will end. US Congress could legalize, reschedule, or remove cannabis from the federal schedule if the Republican filibuster were gone. Vote in US Senators who will abolish it. [11][12][13][14]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now.

Electoral college[]

Return to top. Presidents should not be elected who do not receive the highest number of votes.

Abolish the electoral college. Imagine the US without the 12 years of the Bush and Trump presidencies and their backward cannabis policies.

Ranked voting[]

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See Wikipedia: Ranked voting.

Presidential veto[]

Return to top. Presidents should not be able to block cannabis laws supported by the majority of Americans.

See Wikipedia: Veto power in the United States.

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End war powers[]

Return to top. Nixon, Reagan, and Bush are responsible for the US War on Drugs, and the lie that massive incarceration is a solution. See more lies in
Reagan's frequent demonization of cannabis.

Presidents have too much power. Wars later determined to be started based on lies of Presidents, or done in secret:
Vietnam War: President Johnson and the lie of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Cambodia: Nixon and Kissinger's secret B-52 carpet bombing campaign that helped create the unrest that led to Pol Pot's genocidal regime. And Kent State shootings in US.
Iraq War: President Bush and the lie of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Trump and Biden[]

Return to top. Institute a mandatory retirement age for US Congress members and the President. [15]. Mandatory retirement exists for many US judges. Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are too old to be President. And Trump is just too dumb: Video: Robert De Niro on Trump Being “So F**king Stupid”. See Robert Reich: Seriously, again, how dumb is Trump? And: Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay. An expert’s view of Trump’s mental slide into dementia.

Generic Democrats[]

Return to top. Biden and Trump both underperform generic opponents, poll finds. A Plea to Biden: If You Truly Want to Prevent Trump Authoritarianism, Please Withdraw. Trump was not good for cannabis reform the last time around. We need more cannabis reform. That does not come from the Republican Party. Generic ballot : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight. Biden needs to drop out. March 09, 2024 Newsweek report on poll: Joe Biden Voters Tell Him to Drop Out.

Trump hair — **Source.** Text added later. More **"flying hair" photos.**

Gaza. Canada vs US[]

Return to top. Compare genocidal American politicians to Canada's politicians stopping military aid to genocidal Israel. Read EXCERPT: Bernie Sanders: "This bill also provides another $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid for Netanyahu’s right-wing government to continue this barbaric war. The Netanyahu government should not receive another penny from U.S. taxpayers."

Gallup Poll chart below showing US change from majority approval (Nov. 2023) to majority disapproval (March 2024) of Israeli military action in Gaza. Source: Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza. March 27, 2024 by Jeffrey M Jones. Gallup Poll.

US Gallup poll concerning Gaza taken March 1-20, 2024

Tax cuts for rich[]

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April 15, 2024. Biden: "If Congress enacted President Biden’s tax plan, tens of millions of workers and families would have their taxes cut, nobody making less than $400,000 would pay a penny more in taxes, and the wealthy and big corporations would finally pay their fair share—which would fully pay for the President’s tax cuts and investment agenda."

Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice. Republican dynasties created by regressive taxation: See: The poster child for the perils of dynastic wealth. By Robert Reich.

US Republicans have led cannabis and drug wars worldwide. All to create 2nd class citizens who are blocked from many educational, job, and voting opportunities. Part of the conservative plan to concentrate wealth in fewer hands worldwide.

Trump's 2017 tax cuts for the rich.

On average, taxpayers in the income groups highlighted in yellow will incur a net cost (shown as a positive figure as this reduces the budget deficit), due in part to reduced healthcare subsidies. Higher income taxpayers receive a benefit via tax cuts (shown as a negative number as this increases the budget deficit). The percent of taxpayers in each income group is also shown for the 2023 period. "Taxpayer" in the chart refers to a tax return, meaning it could represent one person or a married couple filing jointly, among other options. [16][17]. Commons source.

Wealth inequality[]

Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Progressive tax. Mar 19, 2024: Sanders, UAW president press harder for shorter workweek. "Today, American workers are more than 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, despite this fact, millions of our people are working longer hours for lower wages," they wrote. "In fact, 28.5 million Americans now work over 60 hours a week and more than half of full-time employees work more than 40 hours a week." After adjusting for inflation, American workers make almost $50 less a week than they did 50 years ago, they said.

Jan 24, 2024 article: $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'. EXCERPTS: analysis found that the wealth of America's billionaires and centimillionaires has exploded in recent years as Republicans have enacted massive tax cuts for the rich ... "The cumulative $8.5 trillion of unrealized capital gains held by America's billionaires and centi-millionaires in 2022 has jumped by more than half–or $3.2 trillion–just since the last Fed survey year of 2019," END.

USA. The sorry state of the nation.

Robert Reich. Source and comments.

See Wikimedia Commons PNG image.

US federal income tax rate on billionaires averages only 8.2%. Click image to enlarge.

"Most taxpayers, including firefighters and teachers, average a federal income tax rate of approximately 13.3%."

Minimum wage[]

Return to top. Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. Simultaneous with the Republican-led drug war the GOP used the Senate filibuster to undemocratically severely restrict increases in the minimum wage at the federal level, and in GOP states.

War on drugs is a war on the poor. Incarceration nation

US minimum wage would be $23 an hour in 2021 if it had kept up with productivity.
Source article. [18].

Your greed is hurting the economy!

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Global warming[]

Return to top. World Population Clock: 8 Billion People (LIVE). We need more trees and less people. More oxygen, less carbon dioxide. To slow down global warming. "Assuming no net migration and unchanged mortality, a total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures a broadly stable population." - Fertility rates. OECD Data. See country graphs. Also, inflation comes from an increasing population sharing one planet's resources.

Many US Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights (even early abortion). Another reason besides their backward cannabis laws to vote them out. Birth control and abortion (especially early abortion) is legal (even free) in many countries. That needs to expand further.

We need the lowest curve below, by lowering the birth rate.

World population projections — See page 30 of **source.**

Immigration[]

Return to top. The US and Europe can't import all the overpopulation of the world. Europe, especially, is already too densely populated. US Democrats and progressives in Europe need to limit immigration, or they will lose power, and cannabis policies will stagnate under right wing rule. Taxes on the rich will be cut yet more, which by definition means middle class taxes will go up, or stay up, to pay for it. Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by population density.

Population density map of the world — See **source.**

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Roswell. Warming[]

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Share link: Roswell UFO. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer playlist. [19][20][21][22][23] [24][25][26][27] [28][29]. Wildest: [30][31]. See also the David Grusch disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [32][33][34][35] [36][37][38][39][40] [41][42][43][44]. See History channel: [45][46][47][48]. National Geographic: [49][50].

See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [51]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disc" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005.

Roswell Daily Record. July 8, 1947. RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region. Full front page

Walter Haut 1947 — **Walter Haut** in 1947

Affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword. The 20 paragraph affidavit is online here: [52] (page 14). [53][54].

Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.

Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:

30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.

5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.

14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.

May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."