Pot luck

You can expect a bunch of potheads to descend upon
Suzie's Chinese Restaurant on Bleecker St. May 3, and we
promise you it has nothing to do with the price of the moo
shu pork.

Members of New York City's Medical Marijuana Buyers'
Club are angered at the restaurant.They say it helped
organize area businesses to pressure the Parks Department
into denying the MMBC a permit for its annual Cures Not
Wars rally in Washington Square Park.

Basically, the rally has always been about the
organization's wish to legalize marijuana consumption for
medicinal purposes. However, it always turns into a
sixhour excuse for stoners to take over the park and toke
up. "The Parks Department denied the permit, not Suzie's
Chinese Restaurant," the Parks Department's borough
commissioner for Manhattan, Adrian Benepe, told us. "The
group has basically always violated the rules of the park,
and this year we turned them down."

Benepe said that in past years, the organization was
granted a permit despite the fact that Community Board 2
always opposed it, but the legacy of too much park
destruction, pot consumption and general goofiness
displayed by stoners did it in.