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Plenty of great music was to be heard at the April 19, 2015, NEPA Cannabis Rally held at Scranton's Nay Aug Park, but the Gazette opted to record the excellent speeches presented. Organizer Jeff Zick kicked things off by introducing Carl Romanelli, 2006 US Senate candidate, 2012 Pennsylvania Green Party chair, and past director and board member of PA NORML.
(00:51) Carl Romanelli addresses the rally attendees. "We're here today at this historic cannabis rally to celebrate and educate regarding cannabis, and to demand our natural Bill of Rights, so to speak." Romanelli called for unity to defeat the existing system, saying that "the entire drug war needs to end now." Romanelli's take-home message: "justice is a demand, not a hope."
(06:08) Additional comments by Jeff Zick
(08:00) Kurt Shotko, former US Representative Green Party candidate speaks. "We want you to get more active and mroe involved in your government . . . you can change this world by making a phone call, by siging a petition, [or] by registering to vote . . ." Shotko has launched organization called The Common Sense Revival to promote critical thinking and positive psychology. "The war on cannabis is a war of big business against family farmers. It's a war of growing your own medicine versus going to Big Pharma and taking some of their very dangerous pills and stuff." Shotko speaks of the benefits of industrial hemp. "The science [of cannabis] is on our side."
(16:23) Zick provides some introductory comments for gas activist Vera Scroggins.
(17:25) Romanelli offers some introductory comments for Scroggins.
(22:20) Vera Scroggins describes her court battles resulting from her attempts to document the activities of the gas industry in Susquehanna County.
(29:27) Additional comments from Romanelli on natural rights and related topics.
