1984 Bastille Day Marijuana Parade / White House Smoke-in
DESCRIPTION
Dual-sided broadside advertising two yippie-ran marijuana-centric counter-cultural demonstrations: a Bastille Day march on the Democratic Convention and a "White House Smoke-in."
Bastille Day Marijuana Parade
Here, a lively magenta and green depiction of San Francisco is shown overgrown with gigantic marijuana leaves along its rooftops and outskirts. The city's streets teem with protestors enthusiastic about freeing the estimated-half billion individuals incarcerated for marijuana related offense and/or just lighting up for a good time. Though protestors here number in the tens of thousands, a mere three police officers on horseback are left to control the situation.
White House Smoke-in
In celebration of 1984's Year of the Mouse, the Yippies here depict themselves as a band of rambunctious rodents in this advertisement of a two-day opportunity to make clear the public's widespread support of marijuana use to President Reagan. Migrating between the Lincoln Memorial, Lafayette Park, and the FBI Building, the plan was to make themselves heard and smelt by those in power. The faces of this power—Ronald and Nancy Reagan—are shown clinging for dear life to the swaying trunk of an elephant terrified by the gregarious and artsy crowd of stoned mice below.
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