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Party with Tommy Chong & Help Ed Rosenthal

Dear Friend, I would like to invite you to come join Tommy Chong and myself at my home in Oakland, CA for a great party to raise money for my defense fund. The party will celebrate how far we've come in legalizing Medical Marijuana as well as provide me with the money I need to fund my current trial that is defending all of our rights. Come out for some great food, groovy music and a great time.

Second Annual Wonders of Cannabis Festival

October 28-29, 11:00am-7:00pm, San Francisco, CA, "Second Annual Wonders of Cannabis Festival," benefit for the Cannabis Action Network and Green Aid, hosted by Ed Rosenthal. At the Hall of Flowers, G

book reading and discussion: It's Just a Plant

July 26, 7:00pm, New York, NY, book reading by author/illustrator Ricardo Cortés, "It's Just a Plant," with remarks by DPA executive director Ethan Nadelmann, and discussion. At the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street (between Houston & Prince), admission free, visit http://www.itsjustaplant.com for info.

What Would You Do If You Found a Giant Bag of Weed at the Beach?

I'm sure the readers of this blog could all be counted on to do the right thing:

Satellite Beach police are asking beachgoers to report any suspicious packages found along the shore following the weekend discovery of a brick of marijuana near Hightower Beach Park.

"Just report it, leave it alone and call the police," said Cmdr. Jeff Pearson of the Satellite Beach Police Department. [FloridaToday]

Yeah right. I'm sure they get calls all the time from concerned surfer dudes who found huge bags of weed and don’t know what to do. Apparently, the ocean is filled with random drugs:

Police say illegal drugs washing up on the beach happens occasionally as smugglers dump their illicit cargo into the Atlantic Ocean to escape detection from authorities.

"It's pretty common. We live on the beach in Florida and it happens," Pearson said.

And you can bet that authorities never even hear about a lot of it, because quick-thinking citizens take responsibility for disposing of the drugs on their own. Heroes.

Really though, this is just another one of those mind-numbingly absurd phenomena that would never occur if our drug policy didn’t completely suck. It requires an epic and sustained campaign of monumental idiocy to create circumstances under which events like this take place routinely. If a smelly dead fish floats ashore, that's one thing, but when large stashes of illegal drugs are just bobbing around in the ocean, it's perfectly symbolic of the enormous mess the drug war has left in its wake.