THE TORONTO FREEDOM FESTIVAL/GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH

So it's been a little over a week since the TFF/GMM and the turnout was just as good as ever despite permit issues earlier this year

Thanks to everyone who made it happen, you saved the Toronto Freedom Festival

So someone by the name of Agent1Lex on Youtube posted an excellent series of video's of the TFF/GMM so here's part one

If you skip ahead to about 5:25 you may notice a nice little Oshawa Cannabis Day spot, glad whoever that was got the flyer on camera

And here's some more images of the day

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Without these two Oshawa would smell a lot less like freedom

                                                                  The Bong Strap

Don't miss the Treating Yourself Expo this summer

        Matt Mernaugh, The King of Pot?

 This guy was very proud of his joint, I'm suprised he didn't cry when he lit it.

Half-Man, Half-Bong, All stoned


Grabbed most of the pics off a single extensive facebook album by Brodie Helsdon, Thank's for the great photography

SAVE THE TORONTO FREEDOM FESTIVAL a.k.a The Marijuana March



Join the Facebook group to help spread awareness of this issue

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_190081134365787


If you don't know what the Toronto Freedom Festival is, then you should really check it out this year on May the 7th.

For the past few years vendors of  various cannabis related merchendise gathered in Queen's Park North for one of the largest pot festivals worldwide, featuring TENS OF THOUSANDS of people in 2010. Booths included cannabis seed dealers, Bong shops, Hemp clothing, and even Cannabis food and drink.

Unfortunatley last year some dumb ass decided "Hey im gonna do some LSD and climb a tree herp derp."
He later fell out and nearly killed himself. This sucks for us because now the permit to allow the booths to sell their items has been denied.

BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

MAY 7th 2011

Queen's Park North (Near Bloor and University)

Toronto, Ontario

Wether or not the permits are granted people will show regardless, and we need you now more than ever.



BONGMAN SAYS

"So it looks like the man is trying to control our freedoms but not allowing us to have the freedom festival at queens park..we need to raise up together and take back our freedoms... Light it up"

Also a message from the group creator.

"We call upon anyone who has attended or wishes to the freedom festival or marijuana march to join our facebook group Save The Toronto Freedom Festival. and follow us on twitter #SaveTFF please donate to our legal fund, Ron Marzel, In trust "

Who is Marc Emery?

Marc Emery, also known as The Prince of Pot, is the main man when it comes to the fight to legalize marijuana.

If you don't know who he is then here is a quick list of just some of his important non-marijuana related activist endeavours.

1. In 1987 and 1988 he fought against the archaic Sunday shopping laws, prohibiting stores to be open on Sundays, by opening his store 8 Sundays in a row. For this he was charged for each of the 8 separate days he left his store open. In March 1988 he spent four days in jail after refusing to pay a fine for something that he believed should not be a crime

2. In 1991 he campaigned against the bid to bring the Pan-Am games to London, Ontario. He and his colleagues felt that increasing taxes to pay for something like that was irresponsible and would lead to the loss of millions for the city of London

3. In 1991 he also began to fight censorship. After 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was banned in Ontario, he went to the U.S and brought back inventory of the CD for his store. He did this all out in the open taking out advertisements in the paper telling people to come to his store for the banned album.

"A bad law is one that restricts our personal choices in the way we live our own life." Marc Emery on Sunday shopping

This is just a small sampling of what Marc has done to help bring freedom about. He also provided free garbage pickup during a garbage strike in 1986, and participated politically with the Libertarian Party and the Unparty, now known as the Freedom Party

My next posting will be about his work towards the Legalization of Marijuana, and the politically motivated raid in 2005 which led to his extradition to the US for a 5 year sentence.