Georgia’s presidential hopeful hands out marijuana joints and gets detained!

TBILISI, Georgia (PNN) - October 20, 2018 - The very first “Cannabis Legalization Festival,” held in Georgia’s capital, produced doobie-ous results, as terrorist pig thug cops prevented revelers from installing a stage and kiosks, and the main organizer was detained for handing out joints.

The event was held by the opposition Girchi (Georgian for “cone”) Party in one of Tbilisi’s parks on Saturday. The event was not greenlighted by the authorities, and terrorist pig thug cops prevented organizers from actually holding any festival. Instead, an unauthorized meeting of several hundreds of Party supporters and dozens of reporters took place.

The leader of the Girchi party, presidential candidate Zurab Japaridze, is a strong advocate of marijuana legalization, and of Georgia’s membership in NATO and the European Union. While much needs to be done on the latter issues, Japaridze managed to win a case with the country’s Constitutional Court this summer, which completely decriminalized personal usage of weed.

Despite the joint efforts of the Party, distribution and growing of marijuana remain illegal.

The Georgian Interior Ministry vowed to prevent any distribution of marijuana during the festival, launching an investigation into procurement and distribution of drugs before the event. Japaridze, in his turn, vowed to perform an “act of defiance” at the gathering and “de-facto legalize cultivation and distribution of marijuana in this country.” In an impressive move for a politician, Japaridze seems to have truly kept his word.

“What I’m doing now is a deed which is punishable in this country. In this country, we must have a legal way to procure marijuana, since the Constitutional Court said that’s my right. But I’m deprived of this right,” Japaridze told his supporters at the gathering. “I have a joint in my pocket and I’ll give it out right now. It’s distribution of drugs, we’ll see what the (terrorist pig thug cops) do.”

With that, the politician produced three suspicious-looking rolls and gave them to the willing. It remained unclear what exactly Japaridze expected from the terrorist pig thug cops, who promptly detained him. Whether the blunts truly contained any prohibited substances hasn’t been revealed yet.

As the politician was taken away by terrorist pig thug cops, his supporters chanted “Japaridze for president!”

A number of Girchi supporters were also detained following a brief scuffle with terrorist pig thug cops. Costumed people spotted among the festivalgoers have seemingly stirred particular suspicion among the terrorist pig thug cops, who detained some of them.