Marijuana Activist Pleased With Recent Vote

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John Sinclair is a Michigan born artist, author, activist and cultural revolutionary who famously went to prison on a ten year sentence for two marijuana joints in the 1970’s. So we asked John for his thoughts on Michigan voters finally fully legalizing recreational marijuana – a cause Sinclair spent decades advocating. John Lennon joined a movement to free Sinclair from prison, wrote a song for him and performed at an Ann Arbor rally to free John. Days later the Michigan Supreme Court set him free. Michigan marijuana laws were changed. He says he’s happy about the legalization of pot but it wasn’t what he would have ordered. He wants to totally “free the weed” and says we should have a universal human right to legally use whatever drugs we choose.

“I believe in the legalization of all drugs – getting the police out of all of our heads. Period. Get as high as you want on whatever you want. Pay the consequences if you must. But not jail. Not losing a job, not being hounded from your living quarters, not losing your government stipend. That’s what I believe in. Smoke weed anywhere anytime and have coffee shops like Amsterdam.”

Sinclair says the marijuana legalization proposal should not have regulated pot like alcohol, because alcohol is a toxin that can be fatal while marijuana does no harm.

“Why are sayin’ that we can’t smoke weed in public? Let them say that! Why are we doin’ this? I don’t get it. Why are we sayin’ regulate like alcohol? That’s the last thing in the world we want.”

These days Sinclair stays active with poetic musical performances, writes and does an online radio show called Radio Free Amsterdam.