Talk Host Trashes 420 Celebrations

Here’s a video with some Boston conservaclone talk show host yammering over some footage of today’s 420 in Concord including a great shot of Rich Paul which clearly directs viewers here to FreeKeene.com. Thank you Rich and the FOX editors! Most of the clip is pretty dull and uninteresting, but publicity is always best when it’s free:

Union Leader Covers Keene and Concord 420 Celebrations

Rich PaulThanks to the Union Leader’s Melanie Plenda for this story, covering both Keene and Concord’s 420 celebrations yesterday:

It wasn’t ash from Iceland creating a haze in communities across New Hampshire yesterday.

April 20, or 4-20, has become known in cannabis-loving circles as the day to “smoke ’em if you got ’em,” according to those who gathered in Keene’s Central Square to smoke marijuana in protest of drug laws.

In recent years, pot-fueled rallies have been held across the country to mark the date of 4-20, the numbers that have become a rallying cry among smokers. A rally took place in Concord yesterday on the steps of the Capitol.

Some lit up marijuana cigarettes while organizers with bullhorns, including former Epping police officer Bradley Jardis of Hooksett, cautioned them not to say a word if police came to arrest them.

The 29-year-old Jardis said he is just a free person now “trying to protect the liberties I’ve taken away.”

State troopers watched from inside the State House, but planned no action unless the crowd got unruly. (more…)

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