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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Why the Fight to Legalize Marijuana Is Part of a Much Larger Populist Struggle 🌿Why the Fight to Legalize Marijuana Is Part of a Much Larger Populist Struggle
The marijuana issue has galvanized activist energy on the left and the right, from anti-globalization protesters to free-market capitalists.
On January 10, 1965, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg led a march for marijuana legalization outside the New York Women’s House of Detention in lower Manhattan. A dozen demonstrators waved placards and chanted slogans, resulting in one of the iconic images of the 1960s: a picture of Ginsberg, snowflakes on his beard and thinning hair, wearing a sign that said "Pot Is Fun." Another picket sign read "Pot Is a Reality Kick."
The pro-pot protest was the inaugural event of the New York chapter of the Committee to Legalize Marijuana, a group launched by Ginsberg and fellow poet Ed Sanders at a time when most pot smokers remained in the closet about their recreational substance of choice. The idea, Sanders explained, was “to get people who use marijuana to stand up...
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