why arent we fighting the war on drugs?

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But, you have to be an adult (18 or older) and you have to pay for a membership. But, after that, any subsequent tickets will be payed for by the organization.

 

What you're proposing would be quickly labelled terrorism, and then marijuana would be associated with terrorism directly, and not in a bullshit manner that FreeVibe tried to claim it did. (Because we all know the guy two blocks way from my house that grows his own stuff in his basement is a terrorist.)


I think the only real way to get marijuana legalized is to remove the negative reputation of it. There are many people that know weed won't kill you, but people still have the misconception that it will make you a lazy, dumb, unmotivated sack of good-for-nothing. I think it's something that probably isn't going to be accomplished.

Why? Because the government controls the media, and thus most of the media imagery of weed is bad. We still see tons of commercials on network TV that's all anti-pot. We all know that the commercials themselves are the most inane piece of rubbish, but the problem is there are too many people out there viewing these commercials that don't know, and there's no way to provide them our side of the story over the same medium.

What we really need are commercials that speak the truth about marijuana. Even if the old "weed is bad" commercials stayed, there would still be two conflicting sides of the story forcing people to find out for themselves and realizing that it's not as bad as they thought it was.

I think the only way to fight the war on drugs is through awareness, and the only way to accomplish awareness through the majority we're trying to convince is to get on TV with some sort of commercial telling the truth. But is that possible?

 

Canadian laws are the same as yours, but we are allowed to sell seeds, grow hemp(under tightly enforced restrictions), and now, the bill to decriminalize is being put back on the table by new PM, Paul Martin. A bill was read in early 04(late 03?) to decriminalize about 15 grams, so you could carry it and not be charged for trafficking, but there is no word on if it will be legal to smoke it. Although where I live, the cops told me they couldn't care less if I smoked it on my own property, but I can't bring it into "public" by smoking a joint in my own truck, in a bar parking lot. In the way of pot laws, our govt is almost as backwards as your is, but now we have people who are open-minded enough to consider changing out-dated and senseless laws.

 

*high five*

she's right. it WAS decrimed some time ago but that was only for a while untill the gov ammended the law so it wasnt unconstitutional (a judge had given them a full year to change the law otherwise it would be struck down and they did nothing) ...oh and f.y.i. we have a prime minister.

i like the idea of stealing the pot back but only if it's redistributed to the poor robin hood style. deffinately a cool plot for a movie/book.