Police in the New Zealand capital of Wellington were weighing charges Friday against a group of pro-cannabis protesters who invaded the cop-shop with a cart full of burning marijuana, according to a report from the scene.
The activists had been demonstrating on parliament grounds by smoking marijuana openly in front of police and security, as party of an ongoing campaign of civil disobedience.
Amid the noisy scene, with a rowdy crowd shouting and cheering in approval, one of the protest organizers declared that he was "proud as hell" to have been a part of the demonstration, telling a reporter that they had "declared war" on their country's drug laws. More...
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