Pubdate: Sun, 07 May 2017 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2017 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.torontosun.com/letter-to-editor Website: http://torontosun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Author: Veronica Henri Page: 14 T.O. POTHEADS GO GLOBAL Bud boosters turn out for annual march Tables of baked goods, bongs, dabs, flags and buds were readily for sale in Queen's Park North Saturday. Toronto's 19th annual Global Marijuana March resembled a circus atmosphere with barkers looking for buds - and all things relating to pot culture - before the crowd in attendance weaved through city streets, puffing freely and cheering for their drug of choice with Princess of Pot Jodi Emery leading the way. "Hopefully next year it should be legal and celebrated," event organizer Neev Tapiero said. One pot enthusiast, who has attended the parade for the last nine years, held a placard reading: "No limits for alcohol, why 30 grams for pot?" "The real argument is freedom," said the man, who identified himself as Rusty Shackelford - an alias also used by a character in the animated television series King Of the Hill. "Adults should be allowed to do what they want as long as they are not hurting anyone," he added. The yearly march in Toronto usually attracts close to 20,000 people, but a much smaller crowd attended in the wake of recent downpours. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt