Cannabis advocates: Don’t reschedule, deschedule
Days removed from the Drug Enforcement Agency indicating that it will be rescheduling cannabis, legal-use advocates gathered May 4 at the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk to say the move was a step too short.
Rescheduling isn’t enough, said Zoë Patchell, Delaware Cannabis Advocacy Network executive director, during the annual Global Cannabis March. Cannabis needs to be descheduled, she said.
The march began at Surfside Place, near the north end of the Boardwalk, and ended with a rally at the Bandstand. It was a rainy and windy day, so the number of march participants was fewer than in years past.
This is the rainy-day crew, said Patchell.
“Prohibition doesn’t stop in the rain, so we don’t stop in the rain either,” she said.
The Global Cannabis March originated in New York City in 1973 and went international in 1999. More than 1,037 cities throughout 88 countries have participated in this global event.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
