LEGALIZE IT

How'd you like to go from tough love to puff love? The Connecticut Cannabis
Policy Forum is bringing three marijuana activists to Dwight Hall to speak
at a public forum called Marijuana Prohibition: Why It Must End on
Saturday, May 8, to educate the public and to separate the myths and facts
about marijuana.

Mike Gogulski, executive director of CCPF and editor of the Media
Awareness Project's DrugSense, will attack the social and political
aspects of marijuana prohibition.

"The government is running scared from its own research," Gogulski
says, "which challenges the foundation of marijuana
prohibition."

Mark Braunstein, plaintiff in a federal medical marijuana class action
lawsuit (Kuromiya and Jamison, et al. v. U.S.), will speak on "Marijuana as
Medicine: A Connecticut Crip[ple] Confesses his Crimes."

Gurest speaker John Kardaras, an attorney and activist for Community
Based Solutions, will discuss the criminal as well as social aspects
of pot policy.

"The current war on drugs is like the Vietnam War," Kardaras says.
"It has no clear strategy, unacceptable casualties, collateral damage,
and the body count keeps mounting. In a war the first casualty is
truth; the second is common sense."

The forum will be held at Dwight Hall (67 High Street, New Haven) from
3-5 p.m. Cal 787-7157 for details, or (http://www.ccpf.org/)