To all cannabis advocates, users, and activists:

In the time I have spent researching the history, prohibition, and uses of cannabis, I have come to realize that a major asset which our cause is lacking is public awareness. Those who support legalization--even those who support steps towards legalization--are the ones who visit our pro-cannabis sites and watch our informative online videos. These people see through the oppressive laws, and want them changed. But many others do not.

These other people are the ones who are unaware of the deception, brainwashed, or have unconciously chosen to remain oblivious--these are the majority. If someone tells these people that cannabis is harmful, they will believe it without further investigation--and it is obvious that, even today 73 years after cannabis was first prohibited in the United States, the government's propaganda continues to resonate throughout all of our schools--both at home and around the world. This is the reason why the laws have not changed, and the government doesn't show any imminent promise towards change.

We, the convinced proud supporters of cannabis, are a small group of people, but the chain-effect of whom we can influence is infinite.

Most of us have realised the deception through personal experiences, which ignited our curiosity, causing us to want to uncover more and more of the truth. However, the lies that are perpetually being taught in schools have yet succeeded in raising another generation that "just says no", but not through factual evidence. They are convinced through blind fear. How will they know anything other than "THC is a hallucinogen"? Any user knows that cannabis is incapable of causing hallucinations even remotely near anything brought on by psilocybin mushrooms or LSD. It's hallucinogenic properties are practically non-existent, yet those who have been misinformed ironically continue to refer to cannabis as a hallucinogen as a promise that it's extremely dangerous and should remain illegal, which they assume makes it more difficult for people to obtain it or use it.

These are the majority of voters; there are only a few voters like us. Parents wanting to protect their children want cannabis to remain illegal, ironically. The public ear only believes what it hears; what it doesn't hear doesn't matter. We mustn't remain silent about the benefits of cannabis, both for strict medicinal purposes as well as for self-therapy or enjoyment. It's a proven effective treatement for glaucoma, asthma, anxiety, depression, nausea, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and people with AIDS, among many other conditions--at least over 200 according to Dr. Tod Mikuriya, MD. It has never caused cancer, it promotes neurogenesis, and its use doesn't lead to cocaine or heroin use. Period. It is even safer than aspirin or coffee, a fact which barely anyone knows, including many regular cannabis users. If people knew about the vast uses of cannabis, from its industrial uses to medical and therapeutic ones, in addition to it's safety when compared to alcohol or tobacco (or even coffee for that matter!) it would be legalized overnight.

"Marijuana, in it's natural form, is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man." - Francis Young, DEA Judge 1988

We cannot rely on the media to publish anything pro-cannabis, so why do we? What are we waiting for? The government will never admit to its biggest mistake. It will never happen. Since 1974, the US government has known that THC exhibits cancer-reducing properties, and yet this news has never been announced publicly. In my time spent within the cannabis community and researching this subject, I have realised that it is up to us to get the message out on the streets. It is not an easy task, but we are the only ones who can relay this information. No one else will.

http://eternalrabbit.deviantart.com/art/Marijuana-Awareness-Posters-152338683

Above is a link to several posters I have made as an attempt to create public awareness. There is a download link on the left side of the page accessing the full-sized PDF. These are free domain, and I encourage everyone who can to print and/or distribute them. Begin to talk to people about cannabis (casually, at first, of course); but don't be afraid to get this news out there. There are awareness programs for everything, from Do whatever you can to increase public awareness--however you can be heard; however you're gifted. Let's pool our talents and knowledge together and aim at a higher audience. Let's make it our objective not to inform those who already believe, but rather to reach those who don't even realise that they are sanctioning the arrest of more than 800,000 Americans every year, 12 billion taxpayers' dollars spent prosecuting marijuana offenders every year, the unethical businesses of owning private prisons and patenting dangerous chemical pharmaceuticals, in addition to denying millions of people the most effective and least destructive medical treatment known to humankind.

 

i will distibute your flyer!

 

well that would be cool to download those poster and pin em around town''
:sunny:

 

Tobacco is a hallucinogen.. After coming off nicotine I was hallucinating really bad so bad that I actually needed to take a psychedelic to make myself know I was hallucinating from the mushrooms. But I was clearly in a withdraw psychosis at some times or another I would walk to where I put my tobacco looking for it like a rat in a addition experiment. Confusion, anxiety, hallucinations all from nicotine withdraw..

 

I like your posters and hope to use some of them. One thing I've also noticed in our fight for legalization is the image that is projected by the people in the streets fighting for the cause. Please don't misunderstand, you and I know they're just people like the rest of us. But when you see the tie dye shirts, just for one example; The average person on the street is thinking "There's those potheads again"

We need to show people that people from all walks of life use cannabis. I read an article not that long ago about women executives that come home and smoke a joint after work instead of having a drink. I sure there are a lot more examples, school teachers, bankers, doctors, etc. If we could get more people like that involved, people that can say "I take care of business everyday and choose to relax with cannabis because it's less harmful then alcohol, I'm raising a family, I pay my bills on time, I help with charities. I'm the same as you except I choose cannabis"

Maybe if people start seeing things like that, it will start changing their attitudes. Then again I could just be full of crap, it's been known to happen.

 

I was smoking some cannabis while at work across the street. someone seen me and said "i thought you quit smoking" and I said "I did, quit tobacco, any question?'..

 

Haha what'd they say??

On another note, DEFINATELY putting up those posters round town.

 

Great Points! Education is the key to legalization. Everybody is stuck in this reefer madness crap. The prohbition of cannibis affects everybody. They cant stop us if we all stand up for our right as human beings.

 

Ganjawar JPG's

Arbitrary and Capricious OiNkDeCePtions...

Apothecaries, Coops and dispensaries (Buyers Clubs) are perhaps unjustly classed, but still classed as Commerce and subject to the Feds Commerce Claus determination. But that is what the GOPerverted supremes ruled in Gonzo v Raich. I still claim that doesn't include individuals and the following articles seem to agree. So regardless of the bogus DEAth mongers arbitrary and capricious decisions to disregard Medicine and Science for profits and power. We can toke all we want under state law. Just can't sell it. Good incentive for the Ganja profiteers to lobby to disolve the ondcp and its evil minions. It also sends a message for any stragglers believing in politicians. That bogus legislation will somehow be redeemed by the same crooked system doing the abuse. The same system reaping the rewards paid by tax payers. Perpetuating the drug war and the jobs maintaining it. Like Mikal Lyinghart. Sickening state of affairs. Off with their heads!

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