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Hundreds of pro-pot protesters lit up on Parliament Hill Monday afternoon, hoping to convince the government to lighten up on them.

The annual 420 rally to legalize marijuana saw a fraction of last year’s 15,000-person turnout.

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But rally organizer Craig Jones said Monday’s rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the roughly 1,000 people who braved the blustery weather.

Jones is the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Canada, a group that’s been pushing for legalized marijuana since the 1970s.

Jones said the group has always been non-partisan, but with a federal election looming in October, it decided to officially throw its weight behind Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Trudeau has made legalizing marijuana a central plank in his party’s election platform.

“We debated about that in the organization a lot,” Jones said.

“But this election presents such a stark choice. This feels like our moment to break through and bring modernization to Canada’s cannabis laws, which is long overdue,” Jones said.