The ad accompanying the Idaho Falls 420 protest story. Coincidence?

Photo from localnews8.com Idaho Falls

IDAHO FALLS – There have been many protests around the country lately, but the one in Idaho Falls Monday was a little bit different.

Some protesters have been seen around town on street corners trying to pass the knowledge they say they have about marijuana.

They call themselves the 420 Soldiers and they were holding up signs letting drivers know some of the “benefits” of marijuana.

They say legalizing marijuana could help relieve prison populations, give the government another crop to tax and there are many paper uses for hemp.

The group did see some signs of support from a few drivers. Though police were called several times today by drivers thinking they were posing a driving hazard.

Photo by auto-show-girls.blogspot.com

Four hot bikini babes holding handmade signs on the street corner advertising a fund raising car wash, that’s no hazard to safe driving at all.

It’s funny which versions of free speech are driving hazards, isn’t it? (No, the bikini girls weren’t having a car wash in Idaho Falls, I’m just making the point that nobody ever complains about “cheerleader car wash” fund raisers being driving hazards.)

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Courtesy of the highly-motivated volunteers at Oregon NORML, protest signs in PDF format scaled to fit the large-size posterboard available at your local print store.  Click the thumbnails for a letter-sized preview, then go to the Oregon NORML Global Cannabis March page to get the full-sized PDF.

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Degé Coutee of the Patients Advocacy Network sent in these photos she promised during last Thursday’s interview at the Los Angeles Federal Building, where activists gathered to protest the recent DEA raids on legal medical marijuana providers.

Listen to live audio from Degé Coutee of Patients Advocacy Network at the protest.

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I’ve been trying to think of fun ways to be civilly disobedient, get a lot of media coverage, and stick it to “The Man” right where it hurts: the pocketbook.  What do you think of this idea?

Gather dozens or hundreds of people at the steps of City Hall or the State Capitol. Prior to the protest, every participant is given a quarter ounce baggie of “Wizard Smoke” – you know, the fake pot that you see advertised in “High Times”? – and a pre-rolled joint of “Wizard Smoke”.  Make sure everyone getting a baggie knows it’s fake pot and that they are breaking no law.

In the press release, point out that one dozen marijuana activists are each bringing a quarter ounce of marijuana to the event and will smoke it openly at 4:20pm to protest the marijuana laws.  Point out that the dozen plan to be arrested by police for their civil disobedience.

Assemble the crowd, give a speech, tell everyone that one dozen brave activists are going to jail today for the simple act of smoking a joint.  At 4:20pm, tell everyone to light them up.  Everybody in the crowd – not just a dozen – whip out baggies of what looks like pot and everybody begins puffing on what look like joints.

Now for the kicker: nobody really has any real pot.  Or maybe only one person has a roach and smokes it to nothing to put the scent in the air.  The point is to show the police wasting their time sifting through a hundred or so baggies of “Wizard Smoke” to try to find those dozen real baggies they think will be there.

So long as you’re not too close to a building to violate an anti-smoking ordinance, should be a good time all around.  I don’t know that they wouldn’t haul everyone down to the station, but once they analyzed the “Wizard Smoke”, what are they going to charge you with?

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