The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is a celebration of people's choice to smoke marijuana and an opportunity to advocate for the legalization of marijuana. The GMM is a march that takes place every year in many cities around the world on the first Saturday in May. This includes peacefully rallying around powerful institutions to send a powerful message in support of marijuana legalization. Since GMM is celebrated worldwide, the impact it has on different communities is specific to its location. I will particularly focus on Canadian culture and the GMM taking place in Canada, and specifically in Toronto, where the march takes place around Queen's Park. During the GMM, the police do not intervene in the march and the activities associated with it. People smoke marijuana freely and are not arrested. It is on this day that communities of people who are regularly marginalized can become powerful because authorities and institutions of power allow this to happen. Their message becomes powerful thanks to the collective strength of marijuana advocates around the world. This article discusses the GMM in the context of its production. He studies how social critiques are presented and how this enables the formation of a marijuana movement. All of this is made possible thanks to the power centers that allow the peaceful protest to continue every year. The reasoning behind the lack of intervention from authority figures during GMM is questionable, and it is questionable whether this actually benefits marijuana advocates or the powerful institutions that keep marijuana illegal. It is through the GMM that the marginalized community of marijuana advocates is able to promote...... middle of paper ...... because authority figures recognize the march and its purpose that it can take place every year. The march gives power figures an opportunity to address the issue of decriminalizing marijuana through its authorization, but the march did not have as much impact as it appears to. It is through the GMM that what Raymond Williams calls “culture is ordinary” manifests itself. Protesters are exposing the daily reality of marijuana use and doing so in hopes of reducing the stigma of the drug. Works Cited: Chappell, Louise. 2008. “The International Criminal Court: a new arena for transforming gender justice? in Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen, eds., Global Governance, pp.160-184. New York: Palgrave. Williams, Raymond. 2001. “Culture is ordinary. » In The Raymond Williams Reader, ed. John Higgins, p. 2-24. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell.