Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers said there was more interest than ever in the seventh annual event, which featured music, speeches and booths selling rolling papers, t-shirts, hackey-sacks and hemp laurels...
...Clegg Won't Pull Your Leg" and who swears that Jesus is his campaign manager. There's also the poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build 10,000 clipper ships, and Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, the self-described "Hemp Lady" and ex-nun who advocates legalizing marijuana as a way of enabling Americans to get back in touch with nature. For $2 she'll sell you a bumper sticker that reads LET CLINTON INHALE...
...Doerschuck, an elegant widow in a pink Chanel suit who wants to require mothers to stay home with their children. "The little guy who doesn't have a lot of money can still come here and start up a campaign," he says. "We give the same courtesy to the Hemp Lady as to Bob Dole." Four years ago, 62 people were on the ballot, a New Hampshire record, but this year they are already well ahead of 1992's pace...
...Buchanan campaign," the candidate declared after paying the requisite $1,000 filing fee. Candidates have two weeks to file for the February 20 vote, but the Buchananites weren't shivering in the cold alone. Close behind was seven-time candidate Billy Joe Clegg, a Mississippi minister, followed by "The Hemp Lady," Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, whose platform centerpiece is reforming marijuana laws...
Strewn amongst the walkways that encircled the stage were vendors and activists hawking their wares. By far and away the most popular table was the Rainforest Action Network's neighbor, the Cannabis Action Network. Among petitions for the legalization of marijuana was an assortment of hemp products: shoes, rope, soap--everything but the dope itself...