The War on Drugs, especially the criminalization of cannabis, has done untold damage to our city for generations, especially among the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. New York finally began the process of legalizing cannabis last year, a full 25 years after California, and a full 50 years after the Libertarian Party included ending prohibition on its first ever party platform.
Better late than never.
We will gather at the intersection across from the Rikers Island Bridge sign in East Elmhurst, Queens, and will have a short memorial to all those lives destroyed on the other side of that bridge for simple possession of cannabis. The memorial will conclude with the planting of seeds of hope around the area.
Following the memorial, we will celebrate the end of prohibition starting at 4:20 by exercising those rights we have reclaimed!
Speakers will include Larry Sharpe (Libertarian for NY Governor), Thomas Quiter (Libertarian for US Senate), Sean Hayes (Libertarian for NY Attorney General), William Schmidt (Libertarian for Comptroller), and Jonathan Howe (Libertarian for NY-14).