Hard to tell a size of crowd when we are all cramped into one room wall to wall. Tuesday was Drug War Day. Stop the War on Drugs. The rhetoric of war must be taken out of this issue. It is not a war.
Wars come and go.
References to a new Viet Nam in Columbia were peppered in speeches throughout the day. Tuesday's speakers hit on all aspects of the drug issue, from getting nearly a million good people who have done no violent crime out of jail to legalizing pot as a medicine. Some of the speakers we heard throughout the day were Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico and Mayor Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, both of whom, along with everyone else, demanded the immediate legalization of Marijuana. Whether the crowd realized it or not, Jesse says two things that in my mind may not be compatible. On the one hand he suggests bloodshed ahead as a necessity for fundamental change.