Boomers you have unfinished business! You stopped the war in Viet Nam, you ejected Tricky Dicky from the White House, you created the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the environmentalist movement. Because of your efforts the military draft was abolished and the voting age was lowered to 18. In politics, art, and society you have accomplished much more than many of the generations that proceeded you. You stood for Enlightenment, Justice, and Liberty! The cultural Revolution that you created has had lasting beneficial effects on American culture and, indeed, on the world.

Yes, your accomplishments are a spectacular advancement to the liberation of mankind from ignorance, slavery, oppression, and superstition. But you have unfinished business! You fought the good fight, and then promptly turned around and attended to personal business. You maybe finished college, but you definitely wanted children. Which you finally did. You bought the mortgage, the new car, the private school, and a hot tub. You did the 9 to 5 for the care of the little ones, you stashed your discretionary income in a mutual fund for all these many years, and a few years after the divorce your "baby" went off to college. A couple of years ago you felt the gloom of corporate downsizing. But, you took the steel in your spine and went out and created a new career for yourself, and now business is great again. This year you and your new love are buying a sweet little mountain cabin with acreage and a trout stream.

Still, there are some things in this world that command your attention and stir outrage in your heart. Last week the kid from the office mail room was condemned to prison for five years for growing a couple of marijuana plants. And he was such a nice kid too, he went to college at night, he was ambitious, bright, polite, personable and eager. He and his fiancee were to be married at the end of their senior year at State U. You know that even if he survives prison he will be negatively altered by the experience. It seems so unjust and it tears you up inside.

But, you feel so hopeless for him, and you think that you don't know what you can do to bring justice to this young man and others like him. These irrational, archaic laws against marijuana are as bad as they ever were when you were younger. Its an injustice that is long overdue for correction. You just feel certain that you really should do something to help! That's your unfinished business.

Boomers now is the time for change! Evidently, as destiny would dictate, it is our role to push America into the modern world of civil liberty, and to accept the science regarding the relative harmlessness of marijuana. The year 2000 is a presidential election year and the leadership of both parties will be actively pursuing your support and vote.

With people power we can once again set the agenda. We can advance the cause of individual liberty. We can force this issue onto the stage of national, rational discourse. By focusing your political efforts, time, talents, and resources toward the sensible decriminalization of marijuana during this election cycle, you can once again make a meaningful and commendable contribution to the advancement of liberty and rational justice in the United States of America. This is the perfect opportunity to establish a truly democratic people's movement in the national consciousness.

All these long years we have waited for the political parties, and the state and national leadership to get smart and sensible regarding marijuana. But they have ignored the issue. Primarily because they are more concerned with being re-elected that with being rational-logical or just, politicians have stalled, lied, obfuscated, and otherwise sidestepped the issue of decriminalizing marijuana.

In the meantime, hundreds of thousands, and probably millions of Americans have been oppressed and persecuted for using a simple herb -- marijuana. This situation is intolerable for anyone who believes in the political philosophy of a People's government constituted by consent to secure life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

Therefore, Boomers, rally, demonstrate, protest, smoke, infiltrate, confront, and party in Los Angeles on August 13 through 18 near the Democratic National Convention to demand liberty and justice for persons who enjoy the peaceful, private use of marijuana, and to demand that the personal use and cultivation of marijuana be decriminalized.

We inhaled, it is our right to do so, and we are proud to admit it! Say it out loud, say it out loud, stoned and proud, stoned and proud. Don't be shy, say it out loud, stoned and proud!