US Republican-led war on cannabis

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US Republican-led cannabis war

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A or F? How Congress scores on marijuana. 2. By Danielle Keane, NORML political director. 2016. "Of the 233 Democrats in Congress, 208 members (89.3 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher. Of the 302 Republicans in Congress, 102 members (33.8 percent) received a passing grade of a 'C' or higher." For your state see: Congressional Scorecard. NORML. Grading was based upon members' voting records.

CannabisVoter.info. Click on your state to determine which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote against.

29 Jan 2020: Pro-Legalization Group Ranks Best And Worst Governors On Marijuana. [3][4].

Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis and links added):

Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C.

16 Jul 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again).

10 Jul 2018: Republican Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments.

Republican cannabis war history

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24 May: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (Republican) vetoes medical marijuana expansion bill, saying 'Iowa must proceed cautiously' on changes. Republican vetoes and filibusters.
7 May: Cannabis Industry Work Costing U.S. Veterans Their Retirement Pensions. Senate Republicans refuse to allow simple majority votes on rescheduling or descheduling cannabis.

2 May: Trumpcare: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. Veterans such as: "Antonio Bascaro has served 39 years for a nonviolent marijuana offense. He was released today and is with his family. There are no words." [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12].

30 Apr: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Republican) says Senate won't pass bill to lower penalties for marijuana.
18 Apr: For the fourth time, Democrat Sargent introduces bill to fully legalize marijuana in Wisconsin. Republicans again threaten to block it in a state with majority support for legalization.
7 Mar: Recreational Marijuana legalization bill passes New Mexico House. All Republicans opposed it.
28 Feb: US Senator Cory Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level, with support from fellow 2020 candidates. Will Republican Mitch McConnell let it be voted on? [13][14].
27 Feb: New Hampshire House passes recreational marijuana bill. Republican governor threatens veto.
14 Feb: Democrat Senator Tim Kaine introduces bill to allow veterans access to medical marijuana through the Veterans Administration. Will Republican Senate block it?
1 Feb 2019: Clueless Kentucky Republican Senate leader McConnell opposes election holiday to increase turnout as in other countries. [15].

20 Dec 2018: Arizona. Republican prosecutor Sheila Polk on crusade against cannabis charges stage 4 cancer patient with felony for possessing legally purchased cannabis oil from dispensary. 2.3.4.

18 Dec 2018: Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature. After voters dump the trump morons (male Republican leaders) who opposed recreational cannabis (Nevada legalized in 2016).
6-7 Nov 2018: Election results 2018: States legalize marijuana, felon voting rights. USA Today.
Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage.
22 Oct 2018: Republican Attorney General seeks to outlaw hashish for medical marijuana patients.
17 Oct 2018: Republican Mississippi. Medical cannabis patient gets 8 years in prison for possession of 3 pounds. [16]. See also: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
14 Oct 2018: Hemp could become a leading Minnesota crop if the Republican legal limbo ended.
27 Sep 2018: US House Republicans Block Marijuana Tax Fairness Vote.
25 Sep 2018: Texas. Leading Republican Congressional Marijuana Opponent In Danger Of Losing Seat.
14 Sep 2018: Republican lawmaker wants to drug test Congress. He is a congressman, and ex-captain for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. From Louisiana, the state with the 2nd highest incarceration rate.

14 Sep 2018: Florida. Polling: Republican candidates on wrong side of medical marijuana smoking ban.

12 Sep 2018: Texas. Willie Nelson to headline rally for Democrat O'Rourke, running against Republican Ted Cruz. 10 Sep 2018: Marijuana In Texas: Where Ted Cruz And Beto O’Rourke Stand On Legalization.

11 Sep 2018: Republican Congressional Leadership Strips Provisions Facilitating Medical Marijuana Access for Veterans. 10 Sep 2018: Poll. Republican Rick Scott. Florida Governor’s Opposition to Medical Marijuana Hurts His Senate Bid.

18 Aug 2018: Beto O’Rourke, on a ‘suicide mission’ against Ted Cruz, is having the time of his life — and might even come out of it alive. He supports federal marijuana legalization. [17][18].

8 Aug 2018: Lawmakers In U.S. Territory (Northern Mariana Islands) Vote To Legalize Marijuana. Senate likely to pass it. Republican governor is shaky.

3 Aug 2018: New York Marijuana Legalization Hinges On Democrats Winning In November.

Jury nullification wins in Georgia.

16 Jul 2018: Jury nullification wins medical cannabis case. Georgia. [19]. And: Georgia Republicans created near-useless medical cannabis laws. [20]. 7 Jul 2018: Georgia Cops Took Their Son Away For Medical Marijuana. Now Reunited, Family Speaks Out. [21][22]

12 Jun 2018: South Carolina Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Medical Marijuana Question On Democratic Party Primary Ballot. Republicans are blocking a full vote in the legislature.

2 May 2018: Maine Lawmakers Override Republican Governor To Start Adult-Use Marijuana Sales. 5 Apr 2018: Dumbass Louisiana Republican state lawmaker cites satirical article in argument against medical marijuana. 30 Mar 2018: Rick Steves on a journey toward marijuana legalization. "In some cases, they’re just waiting to get rid of their Republican governor."

That illegal smile Republicans don't like.

29 Jan 2018: Virginia Senate Republicans kill bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

3 Nov 2017: Maine's Republican governor vetoes voter-approved bill to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. [23]

7 Apr 2017: New Mexico's Republican governor vetoes a bill that would have allowed medical marijuana for opioid addiction. 7 Apr 2017: New Mexico's Republican governor vetoes the 911 Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Bill. 7 Apr 7, 2017: Idaho's Republican governor vetoes a broadly-supported asset forfeiture reform bill.

Jeff Sessions once wanted to execute pot dealers. Jan. 29, 2017.

Cannabis is safer

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History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects.

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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.

63 in 2020. Sources: [1][2].

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

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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. [24][25][26]. 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.

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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...

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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. [27][28][29].

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 [30] (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.

• See Wikipedia: Republican states.
• Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage.
• Wikipedia: List of European countries by minimum wage.

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

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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. [31][32][33][34]. Senators Manchin or Sinema could abolish it now.

Electoral college

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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. [35]. 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.

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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.

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. [36][37]. 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.

US minimum wage would be $23 an hour in 2021 if it had kept up with productivity.

Source article. [38].

Your greed is hurting the economy!

• A $15 minimum wage would cost jobs, right? Probably not, economists say.
• There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
• The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation. Washington Post.

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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.

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.

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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. [39][40][41][42][43] [44][45][46][47] [48][49]. Wildest: [50][51]. See also the David Grusch disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [52][53][54][55] [56][57][58][59][60] [61][62][63][64]. See History channel: [65][66][67][68]. National Geographic: [69][70].

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. [71]. 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.

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: [72] (page 14). [73][74].

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."

Galactic Pot March

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420 and Global Cannabis March event lists by year.

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