“Keene 420 smoke-in”

When

4:20 PM on April 20, 2013

Where

The State House
Concord, New Hampshire

Why

Marijuana prohibition has gone on long enough. The United States jails more people than any other nation—both in absolute numbers and as a proportion of the population—and the vast majority of those people are in jail for the victimless, consensual “crime” of consuming a substance that the government doesn’t approve of. Numerous attempts to pass legislation relaxing marijuana prohibition have failed. An additional tactic is clearly called for.

Some people attend the rallies to protest the current state of affairs. Some people smoke at the rallies as an act of civil disobedience. And some people have simply given up caring what the government’s “laws” say they must not do.

Sun, 2010-01-17 13:56 -0400 — Sam A. Robrin

To the tune of “Pleasant Valley Sunday”

We’ve got a hookah, six glass pipes,
   Eight joints, and someone’s two-foot bong.
Whoever said these celebrations wouldn’t last sure got it wrong.
Another Keene 420 smoke-in.
   Something burning—smells like rope.
The cop drives by and flips his visor up,
   Because last bust, he was the dope…

Some unnamed townies
Sell their brownies
Wearing smiling masks of V.
There’s Rich and Noah,
They sure go a
Ways to make us safe and free.

Another Keene 420 smoke-in.
Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em, friends!
We’ll civilly be disobedient
Till their futile war on drugs ends.

Who’s got a minute, please,
To mourn lost liberties?
Most tragic of Remember whens.
No one who’s innocent
Should fear the government
The State should fear the citizens.

Another Keene 420 smoke-in.
Burning issues, scoring points.
Another Keene 420 smoke-in.
Making ashes of the joints.
Another Keene 420 smoke-in…

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