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The Global Marijuana March (GMM), also referred to as the Million Marijuana March (MMM), is an annual rally held at different locations around the world on the first Saturday in May. A notable event in cannabis culture, it is associated with cannabis-themed events, which may include marches, meetings, rallies, raves, concerts, festivals, and attempts at educational outreach.

The first Global Marijuana March was held in 1999. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in over 1034 different cities in 85 nations and subnational areas. Locally, the Global Marijuana March is associated with names including Global Cannabis March, World Cannabis Day, Cannabis Liberation Day, Global Space Odyssey, Ganja Day, J Day, and Million Blunts March.

Event Origins
A tradition pioneered by the Youth International Party ("YIPPIES"), which started as an adapted form of civil-disobedience named Smoke-ins "first appeared in New York in 1967 and evolved by the mid-70's into their current form, the annual pot parades." . The event became known as Jay Day, a play on the May Day tradition, after 1971 when the two event coincided on the same day. The event was later organized by a organization started by individual Yippies, Cures-Not-Wars. Continuing annually at different times during the year through the rest of the century, the event became an lower east side counter culture tradition.

In 1998, Cures Not Wars Co-Founder and Yippie Activist, Dana Beal, started a campaign in response to then Mayor Rudy Giuliani's candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in the 2000 election. At the time, Republican's Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms were looking to restart previous efforts to establish the death penalty as punishment for importing just a mere two ounces of cannabis into the US provided Beal with more than enough to rally against. The flyers and ad's for the 1998 event advertised it as the 'Million Marijuana March', with the overall goal of bringing together all of the supporters of legalization and past event goers to dispose Giuliani's candidacy.

At the 1998 event, speakers such as Michael Aldrich, Penny Arcade, John Sinclair, and dozens of cannabis activists were advertised in advance. But due to a heavy handed police presence, orchestrated by then Mayor Giuliani, only 5,000 people attended, as estimated by organizers.

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