YES WE CANNABIS!

It was a modest turnout at Hempfest 2003 with only about 150 people
sparking up on the Legislature grounds Monday. That's down from the nearly
hundred or so more the fest saw at its 1996 debut. But perhaps this is the
kind of protest where low turnout is a sign that things are changing in the
demonstrators' favour. Soon, Hempfest will morph into just a regular day at
the Leg. Soon, every man, woman and child in this country will have the
right to carry 15 grams without fear. Soon, Ken Kirk will retire to the
basement where his X-Box awaits, gathering dust. Soon, perhaps even TV
broadcasters will have no reason to report things like, "To help subdue his
Tourette's, Joe smokes up to eight marijuana cigarettes per day," as though
use of the more colloquial, but widely understood word "joint" would
somehow implicate them in the whole tawdry affair. Soon, it won't even be a
tawdry affair. Exhale.