“The
prohibition of ganja is an interference with liberty which the government
of India is not justified in undertaking….”
 The
British Hemp Study, 1894
MISSION STATEMENT
CAMP concurs
with this conclusion of the most exhaustively comprehensive study
of marijuana to date. Until the government of the United States
can produce conclusive medical and / or scientific justification
for pot prohibition, all marijuana laws constitute a vindictive
violation of the constitutional rights of citizens in simple pursuit
of happiness in their own fashion.
America’s first pot laws were introduced in the southwestern states
to provide a rationale for the deportation of thousands of Mexican
farm workers, with whom returning WWI veterans found themselves
competing in a virtually non-existing job market. What began as
a deliberate violation of the civil rights of an ethnic group, has
been politically perpetuated as the Pot Prohibition of today, which
continues this repression on a cultural level against pot smokers
everywhere.
It is high time to stop talking about ending marijuana prohibition,
it is time to do something about it!
Even a brief stroll through today’s flourishing field of marijuana
reform provides revealing evidence of as many diverse reform-oriented
organizations as different types of the ubiquitous weed itself.
Each of these groups offers what it considers to be the best solutions
to the obvious problem of marijuana prohibition, varying solutions
which often conflict in theory as well as application.
The one connection shared by these groups is the realization that
currently oppressive pot laws must be changed to more accurately
reflect the true nature and effects of this mildly euphoric plant
as the first step towards total abolition of prohibition. If there
is to be any sort of productive association amongst these groups,
it is upon this common principle that any cohesive formulation of
strategy must be based.
The
Coalition
for the
Abolition
of
Marijuana
Prohibition
is an alliance of several such groups and individuals working in
this direction. The organization coalesced in the spring of 1978
in Atlanta, Georgia in a last ditch-effort to defeat pending anti-paraphernalia
legislation on a Constitutional basis. Seeking a strong offense
as the best defense, after these bills became law despite intensive
efforts,
CAMP
next focused it’s telescopic sights on Georgia’s stone-age pot laws,
under which one can still do a year for possession of one joint.
As no other organization was addressing this problem in Georgia,
this became
CAMP’s
top priority.
CAMP’s
founders soon encountered so many different groups working for pot
reform that it was decided to incorporate as a basic part of our
over-all program, some means by which to efficiently apply the wealth
of energy and ideas of all these groups. This is accomplished by
providing a forum through which all such organizations have equal
opportunity to offer their individual ideas on ending prohibition
to the pot-smoking public.
Aware that writing letters to politicians is if anything, a limited
technique which often results in little more than an advanced case
of writer’s cramp.
CAMP
has elected to assume a more aggressive approach to tackling the
seven-headed demon of pot prohibition. Recalling the Freedom Rides,
Sit-ins, and other creative form of non- violent civil disobedience
which achieved such phenomenal success in the civil rights and anti
Vietnam War movements of the 60’s.
CAMP
has chosen to employ analogous tactics in a long range
CAMPaign
to abolish marijuana prohibition completely.
This concept involves providing people with effective opportunities
to demonstrate public outrage with the harmful side effects of prohibition
to the individual as well as society in general.
CAMP
further
invites other pro-pot groups to use these rallies to present their
ideas and views to the public.
CAMP
first tactically applied this strategy at Atlanta’s First Annual
Marijuana March and Smoke-in, staged April 7, 1978. One thousand
people attended, marching to the state capital to protest Georgia’s
archaically repressive pot laws and the anti-paraphernalia bills,
then awaiting the Governor’s signature into law. National, and well
as city and statewide, attention was focused on the inane nature
of these laws in a vividly viable manner.
Protesters also voiced complaints about DEA complicity in the Mexican
government’s program of spraying pot fields with paraquat, the world’s
deadliest nitrogen-based herbicide. Speakers included Dana Beal
(Youth International Party), Paul Cornwell (International Marijuana
Wholesalers & Distributors), and Gatewood Galbraith (Kentucky Marijuana
Feasibility Study, Inc.)
FREEDOM RIDERS?
Yes
things are changing fast in today’s Marijuana Movement, which in
ten years has grown from a few seeds of discontent into an on-going
national effort to totally abolish marijuana prohibition altogether.
The inevitability of change is best dealt with by anticipation and
preparation for the effects of that change, so as to assure a smooth
transitional phase between the old and the new. Right now CAMP is
beginning to prepare for a future in which marijuana will be grown,
sold, and smoked legally, not only in this country, but around the
world.
How will this affect your lifestyle? Your career? The quality of
your stash? With these and many other reefer-related matters in
mind a number of prominent
CAMPesinos
in the field of marijuana have now joined forces to carry the
CAMPaign,
initiated in Atlanta, to all parts of the nation. From California
to Kentucky,
CAMPers
are organizing state and regional chapters to launch a massive onslaught
of Marijuana Marches, Reefer Rides, and Smoke-ins for the coming
Spring. If your ready to go more than just “one toke over the line”
to defend your Constitutional right to grow, possess, and share
marijuana, you’re ready for
CAMP.
CAMP’s FOUNDERS:
Shay Addams
Paul Cornwell
Gatewood Galbraith
Ed Rosenthal
LIGHT UP FOR LIBERTY
Freedom
is the issue here. Freedom from government interference in the private
lives of 50 million pot-smokers in this country today. Exercising
our Constitutional rights to peacefully assemble and to protest
any repressive law may be the decisive factor in the eventual abolition
of marijuana prohibition altogether.
CAMP
welcomes participation by all pro-pot organizations and concerned
individuals in a program aimed at making available to the public,
their unique and diverse approaches to the marijuanalogical phenomenon,
which has so thoroughly permeated all levels of contemporary society.
Join the Action Faction of today’s Marijuana Movement and begin
CAMPaigning
with us as we continue to work nationally to achieve our long-range
goal – total abolition of marijuana prohibition.
(©1978
- CAMP Membership Brochure - Copy this into to your text editor
& use it as a brochure to enlist new members)
Coalition
for the
Abolition
of
Marijuana
Prohibition
P.O. Box 5330
Atlanta, Georgia 31107
Ph     404-522-2267
E-mail
us at:
info@worldcamp.org
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