POT-SMOKING HIPPIES YIELD NEW YORK PARK

It was pot-smoking hippies vs. baby-toting yuppies in New York's Greenwich
Village on Saturday, and the hippies lost. Nudged along by an imposing cadre
of police officers, several hundred marchers at a pro-marijuana rally
yielded Washington Square Park to mimes, face-painters and riding ponies at
the first city-sponsored Family Day in the park, which drew an estimated
crowd of 8,000.

For the past 27 years, May Day had been J-Day -Joint Day - in the park,
where thousands of pot smokers rallied in support of their favorite
controlled substance.

But Saturday, they massed across the street or shambled glumly downtown to
Battery Park, where their Million Marijuana March had been relegated by city
officials.