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SMOKING MARCY MACDONALD
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Montel Williams And His Bride Tara Williams With Rob Kampia
Even the name of the Highline Ballroom suggests a halo of weed circling the building. But when 'Mama' Michelle Phillips, ABC's John Stossel, Fox's Montel Williams (and his newest bride), Nicole Atkins and hundreds of others joined the very legal Marijuana Policy Project's Director, Rob Kampa, to honor Senator Joseph Bruno (who, despite the anti-drug fueled Rockefeller Laws is pushing to make New York the 13th state to keep users of medical marijuana free from prosecution) the room was surprisingly pot-free. Each celebrity spoke with passion on the subject. Not only did Phillips write about the Mama's and Papa's experiences in her book CALIFORNIA DREAMIN, she actually remembers the Sixties! For those who can't : a 'lid' of grass then cost $5, was measured on the lid of a coffee tin and was free from paraquat, a poisonous substance sprayed on marijuana crops during the Nixon Administration of the Seventies. Medical marijuana -- grown today on governmental subsidized farms like those in Madrid, Mississippi (signs there read 'Welcome to Madrid: PLEASE KEEP OUT!') -- has been prescribed by physicians (yesserie, actual M.D.s) for victims of everything from AIDS to sciatica, neurological disorders to cancer, a fact Stossel and Williams re-explained for those who couldn't' remember whet they'd been smoking since breakfast. All funds raised -- and they were raised much higher than the Highline Ballroom -- will be used to pass a bill to make medical marijuana available to all seriously ill New Yorkers who have the approval of their physicians. Event Committee members like Lewis Black (who ranted on the subject), Jackie 'the Joke Man' Martling, Ben Taylor and Robert Wilson also honored patient advocate Joel Peacock for his constant work for those in need. For more information, don't phone your dealer, Call MPP in Washington at 202 462-5747, x. 104 and put your money where your rolling papers used to be.
