Pot fans rally in big smoke out

So the whole pot movement is catching onto the smoking herb in herds as a show of solidarity or social tolerance or something like that? Anyway, imagine all the fun of a jam-band festival combined with the glowing pride of being high and politically active at the same time. Yeah, it's that glorious:

Queen's Park may have been soggy from yesterday's rain, but sparks were flying as thousands spent the day smoking pot just north of the Legislature.

It was part of the Toronto Freedom Festival and the 10th Global Marijuana March, with the intent of pushing to legalize marijuana.

"Hey, this is what Woodstock must have been like," said one youth as he walked by smoking a joint the size of a small cigar. "But I bet you the music won't be as good."

Bongs and pipes of all sizes and large bags of marijuana were carried around openly as police presence was limited and kept to the periphery.

Paul Wemple, 17, of Toronto, said he's been at the festival a few times and loves it.

"You can smell it before you can see it," he said. "It's that wonderful sickly sweet aroma that we all seem to love."

These herb-fests and smoke-outs are becoming more and more popular, or so I hear, with the cops rarely interfering unless the anarchists show up and start breaking stuff. Seems like maybe a small step in the direction towards de facto decriminalization. It's the "whaddaya gonna do about it?" method of social justice.