INFO
MIAMI MEDICAL MARIJUANA BENEFIT CONCERT PART II
AT TOBACCO ROAD
HOSTED BY
PLOPPY PALACE PRODUCTIONS
On Saturday, March 15, 2003 Ploppy Palace
Productions and Tobacco Road
will be hosting a concert to raise funds for
Coalition Advocation
Medical Marijuana�s citizens initiative campaign.
Due to harsh weather
conditions that restricted certain aspects of The
5th Annual Medical
Marijuana Benefit Concert Part I, we have arranged a
rescheduled event
with The 5th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit
Concert Part II
As part of this four stage extravaganza, some of
South Florida�s top
bands, spoken word artists and community activists
will join together
for patients� and physicians� right to use medical cannabis.
As a testament to the diversity of supporters for
this cause, there will
be broad variety of musical styles including jazz,
rock, reggae, folk,
vocal harmonies, Peruvian, hip-hop, Latin, funk,
experimental, heavy
metal, tribal rhythms, world beat fusion and
psychedelic grooves.
Jerrods Door, The Wicked Screaming Squirts, Out
OfThe Anonymous, The Day
Music Died, Little Atlas, Kuyayky, Haze, Mumbo
Jumbo, Sweetbone, Robert
Baldwin, New Relics, Jayne Margo-Reby, Charissa
Johnson, John Emil,
Shamonay, Multi-Culture Ink, En Caravana, Swivel
Stick, Inner Voice, The
Oski Foundation, The Avenging Lawnmowers Of Justice,
Earth Citizens and
MANY MORE will be performing original music.
Alonso, Richard Negri, Melkisedek and Andrio
Chavarro will be presenting
innovative spoken word and theatric pieces.
Feiruz Asaad�s Belly Dance Troupe will be performing
middle eastern
dances to live percussion rhythms.
Michael Dubiner will be presenting a photographic
series from the 2000
election.
Toni Latino from the Coalition Advocating Medical
Marijuana will be
speaking about the voter initiative to allow
physicians to prescribe
marijuana for patients in need. Other speakers will
include Elvy
Musikka and Irvin Rosenfeld, medical marijuana
patients, David McKinney,
from the Students For Sensible Drug Policy and
members of Miami NORML,
the Green Party and the Libertarian Party.
The event will work to raise funds and awareness for
the medical
marijuana campaign and patients� rights.
Previously, a person's right
to use medical necessity as a defense to marijuana
charges has been
upheld by several appeals courts in Florida.
Marijuana has proven
therapeutically useful in treating numerous medical
conditions including
muscle spasticity, arthritis, and the nausea related
to AIDS and cancer
chemotherapy. For physician-certified medicinal
users and their
caregivers this initiative will provide protection from legal
prosecution. About 500,000 Florida registered
voters need to sign the
petition in order for the electorate to decide on
the issue in the next
election. This process is similar to the
initiatives passed in
elections from seven states that allowed doctors to
prescribe cannabis
to patients.
In addition there will be vendors and small
businesses promoting and
selling their merchandise.
The 5th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert
Part II is sponsored by
Ploppy Palace Productions, Tobacco Road and selected
businesses.
Members of the recently formed Miami NORML will be
on hand to assist in
the petition drive.
Saturday, March 15 from 4:00 p.m. � 3:00 a.m.
Tobacco Road, 626 South Miami Ave., Brickell
305-374-1198
Admission is $ 10.
Photographs of the 5th Annual Medical Marijuana
Benefit Concert Part I
are available to the media.
For more information, please email Ploppy Palace
Productions at
[email protected].