LOVELOCK - Low attendance at the Weed it Out 419 event was discouraging to Pershing County Frontier Community Coalition (PCFCC) members. FCC Director Jeff Munk cited conflicts with the high school's prom decorating day as one reason for the few students that attended.
"There were a couple of students who attended. If the message helped even one of them stay off drugs it was worth it," Munk said.
The PCFCC scheduled the event to be held on the lawn of Lovelock City Hall on April 19. The event was to include a speech from Lovelock Mayor Mike Giles and the planting of pinwheels in the Weed it Out garden at city hall. In addition, students would be given spray chalk and stencils to plaster the 419 slogan across town. However, the low attendance gave way to personal conversations with the few students that attended and only one 419-related slogan created on the city hall lawn, Munk said.
According to the I am one of Many website (http://www.iamoneofmany.net/weeditout), the Weed it Out 419 campaign was created in November 2010 when 20 youth from across Nevada attended a training session at the University of Nevada School of Journalism and Advanced Media Studies to learn how to create an anti-marijuana media campaign. During the 1½-day training session the group came up with "Weed it Out 419" as a campaign slogan and adopted the tag line "I have my reasons."
The campaign encourages youths and adults across the state to make the choice not to smoke marijuana and to state their reasons for not smoking marijuana.
Events are created throughout the state on April 19 at 4:19 p.m. to encourage the non-usage of the herb.
The Weed it Out 419 campaign is sponsored by the Nevada Statewide Coalition Partnership, a collaboration of 13 community coalitions, including the PCFCC. The campaign is dedicated to reducing substance use and abuse and promoting positive youth development.
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