Not to be a wet blanket, but if you want to make a difference, bitching about it on a pot growing website where just about everyone agrees with you isn't going to do a thing. Did Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams and all of the Founding Fathers just sit around in their 18th century meeting bitching about the brits? Did MLK just sit around and whine to his people? Did any of those things (" american revoloution, french revoloution, the storming of the bastille, the civil war....")
(1)just happen? No! Some one, or a group of people, made a plan of action towards change, and only after years and years of hard work and determination did they make changes.
If you want to make change, break the stereotype of a pothead, and get off your ass and do something.
(2)Write a letter to a governmental official, run for office yourself or organize a peaceful assembly/protest. Until you've done something, don't expect change.
I'm not disagreeing with you about how it should be legalized,
but it really grinds my gears when people expect the government to know everything or do everything for them. If you think that's their job, then go to a library (a place where you can find books and borrow them) and get a copy of the constitution and read it. Hell, you could probably find one on the internet.
Sorry to go apeshit on you.
Addressing points 1 &2, Sure as hell, just sitting around bitching wont solve anything (but it
CAN be a decent outlet). Have you ever written to a gov't official? I did once, and got a letter back about something that had
NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with why I wrote the letter. Most of them have pre written response letters that are
so vague that they can apply to about anything. "Representative So&So cares deeply about your concerns, and is working tirelessly to address the concerns of his constituency". Nothing gets done. Oh
they'll tell us it's under advisement, but I learned a while ago not to hold my breath. I aint trying to discourage anyone from doing so, just prepare for disappointment.
We (my generation) have staged open smoke ins (we lit up as one in public), held NORML rallies when NORML was formed, and have tried every other non-violent means of protesting the marijuana laws (among other things), and some even went so far as to get
REALLY militant about it. Yet here we are today, in many ways (and in many parts of the country) worse off than when we started.
As to the 3rd issue, it is
MOST DEFINITELY our governments job to act in our best interest, and with
THAT MANY GREAT MINDS (sic) in one room, yeah, I think they should know everything. Shit, as it sits, they already think they know whats in our best interest, and they also think that we are too stupid to think, speak or act in our own best interests. They think that we are kids, and they need to protect us from ourselves. And that may well be true. Look at how we the people have let our Government become what we fled 300 years ago. At LEAST they could have a handle on how their constituencies feel about the issues, and actually vote on pending legislation accordingly. But no....thats
NOT how things work. They treat us like children telling us that its a "complicated issue" or that "They'll take it under advisement" as if some of us are incapable of grasping abstract concepts.
I think that YOU might need a refresher course on constitutional law. It is
CERTAINLY NOT the governments job to
second guess whats "in our (citizens) best interests", or act in any manner other than the will of the people. Read the preamble to the constitution.
We are a country
founded by "throwing off the yoke of oppression" of the crown and government. Our forefathers (and mothers) committed acts of protest, sometimes violent, over government tyranny up to
and including armed insurrection, and here we are, so much worse for the wear. It seems that somewhere along the line we lost our vision and let greed take over.
Marijuana is illegal because too many people are getting fat because it
IS illegal. Pure and simple. If we legalized Pot, a whole bunch of government bloat would be unemployed, the pharmaceutical industry (one
very powerful lobby) would suffer, as would many other industries. There are entire branches of government that are dependent on pot being illegal. Marijuana eradication is the sole reason why some branches of gov't exist in then first place.
well in that case we just have to wait untill the people in office come out and our generation (potsmokers or potsmokers friends) get into office.
YEP!!!! Thats just what
WE SAID, 30 years ago. And we
DID get into into office, but we promptly dropped the ball and did less than nothing. I certainly hope your generation has more integrity to follow thru when it's your generations chance. One thing is certain................Ya'll can't
POSSIBLY fuck things up any worse than
we did. Good luck!!! I'm smoking it,
AND GROWING it, legal or not.