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Healing Herb: Grandview Park Vigil
Healing Herb with Renee Boje & Erika Snowlake
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35 min |
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30 Apr 2001 |
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9.03 (31 votes) |
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Host Renee Boje offers highlights from the Grandview Park Vigil that took place in Vancouver on April 3rd and was organized by Compassion Club Member and Marijuana Party candidate John (Flash) Gordon. Speakers include Marc Emery, Brian Taylor, Hillary Black, David Malmo-Levine and others. Renee Boje & Erika Snowlake
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Re: Healing Herb: Grandview Park Vigil
FlashGordon,
Sat Mar 29 14:13:06 2003
4/4/01 02:12 AM
The police were the first to arrive on bicycles with wasp like yellow jackets. A blue- suited one moved
in closer to the memorial cairn where Flash, Imagine, Stonerette and Hempsterx, drawing up posters,
sat on the grass.
Imagine had propped up the poster his kids had made, “Free this angel!“with a picture of Rene Boje
in front of the cairn.
They had postered the drive with Flash’s picture, email and address promoting this event. Now Flash
feared he should have heeded Malmo’s advice and not shown up at a event early. He knew that, even
in Vancouver, you had to be in a public crowd for protection if you wished to smoke pot in a park.
He could feel the two grams of Himalayan and 2 grams of Northern Lights #5, his medicine from the
club, forming a lump in his pocket - not unlike the lump in his throat. His blood ran cold. He could
imagine himself answering the constable’s questions. Should he not consent to search or rely on his
status as a Compassion Club member but not a official Canadian exemptee?
What would they say when the sound system arrived?
Would they make us turn it off and charge us with disturbing the peace?
Flash looked down at the grass and smoked his butt.
The sun broke through the clouds and Flash looked up and there was Renee Boje, with a kind of
aura around her and Geo the master technician from pot-tv ( http://pot-tv.net ). It was 4:20 pm . Flash
stood up and the cops were gone!
Brian Taylor was arriving in his van and had brought a enormous sound system and generator which Geo
set up in just a few moments. Doug, The Compassion Club’s answer to Willi Nelson was first to warm up the
growing crowd that had now began to gather with greater numbers and curiosity. The Courier reporter
had arrived and BCTV had brought in a camera. More video cameras appeared and began setting up.
John and Barb volunteered to hold up the banner “Drug War Remembrance Vigil “ and Hempsterx had
made several signs with slogans like “Marijuana is Medicine”, “Free Tod McCormick ”, “Save Renee
Boje ”, “Remember Peter Mcwilliams ”, “End the War on Drugs”, “ Piss for Enjoyment, not for
Employment ”, etc .
Flash busied himself welcoming people and handing out green ribbons and pins as well as party posters
and brochures. Quikmic had shown and several others who had said they would. Marc Emery
(http://emeryseeds.com) mingled about doing the same. It was Flash’s role to M.C. so he mustered his
courage and introduced the event and the guests who were expected to speak.
Brian Taylor took the mike and delivered some home spun wisdom and clarified the importance of what
we were doing. Hilary Black was reluctantly next to take the mike. Flash had introduced her saying she
would say a few words about Tod McCormick . Instead Hilary put her trust in the crowd and poured
her heart out, testifying publicly that she and Tod had been lovers. She had only narrowly escaped the
same fate as Renee, Peter and Tod, as she had been with him studying the Patients Clubs in California
and only her guardian angel had saved her. Their trials have served strengthen her determination to
struggle with the Compassion Club ( http:// thecompassionclub.org) .
Renee Boje was not ready to speak yet so Flash glanced through the crowd and called upon Richard
Cowan ( http://marijuananews.com pot tv news anchor) to give his expert opinion on the war on drug
users. The crowd applauded several times as Richard decried his own country and announced his shame
of DEA land and the horrors of the war on drugs .
Flash was pulled away and interviewed by BCTV camera man who requested he try to say a bit more
in the introductions so he could get it on tape. Flash buoyed up, Flash got flashier and more informative
with his introductions.
Mark Emery was next to step up to the plate and delivered a dynamite speech and was getting the
crowd quite enthused when an alcoholic homeless street person, who was obviously a veteran of maybe
the Second World War wanted to make it perfectly clear that he was. Mark was gentle with the
schizophrenic senior and managed to move him on without losing his composure.
The mood was lightened by a humourous western pot song from our party leader Brian Taylor, who
turns out to be a talented musician as well!
Renee Boje was finally ready to take the microphone and she shared the details of Peter’s murder at the
hands of the DEA, her own loses and how she missed her family. She urged people to write letters to
Tod with photos, Inmate #1172-112, PO Box 3007, Terminal Island, California and to Judge George
King, Edward Royabal Federal Building and Courthouse, Clerks Office, 255 East Temple St., Room
181-L, Los Angeles calf. 90012 and to visit her site at http:// reneeboje.com or email her at http://
2001thespaceodyssey.com which he is taking part organizing [email] dagreenmachine@excite.com ">
reneeboje@hotmail.com [/email ]. She planted a symbolic seed in a coffee cup of soil and shared the
sacrament of some white widow joints of various sizes which she pulled from her blue satchel and
presented the grateful crowd unafraid.
Norm Seimken, who has been catching the media’s attention in Chiliwak, had not expected to speak
and had eaten two cookies but bravely took his turn. He turned out a great speech on the BC Marijuana
Party policy and his personal views as a health care professional.
Then Flash gratefully introduced David Malmo Levine, who is on his way to fight possession cultivation
and trafficing laws in the Supreme Court and whose own unique brand of “Edutainment” amused and
informed all as he gave his “I have a dream ” speech.
The old guy from the Club, who had started us off with song, then took a crack at public speaking,
pointing out the difference in people when they are drunk to when they have smoked a joint and amused
us all with his characatures and truth. Flash insisted that Imagine, who had dreamt up the idea in the first
place, should say a few words.
He took the opportunity to thank everyone including Flash on all the good work they had done and how
it had come together so well.
A lady member of the Compassion Club then testified to cannabis’s medical benefits in her life and David
Levine had a few final announcements of upcoming events like the space odyssey, 2001 http://
2001thespaceodyssey.com which he is taking part organizing dagreenmachine@excite.com and Marc
pulled the plug on the generator . It was over and they dispersed seeds of hope. Freedom had been
sown .
John Gordon
http://www.bcmarijuanaparty.ca/c_john_gordon.htm Vancouver- Kensington .
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