legalization of cannabis commercials.

[orgnlmrwiggles]

This is in reference to anothers user's poll for "sending $50 to an organization to legalize marijuana"

I think that the best way to actually get cannabis legalized would be to legalize it in america first. (imo)

The best way to achieve this would be mass broadcasting. by this i mean, making commercials.

The more people to actually make their own "commerical,even on youtube, in an intelligent way, discussing the positives about why it should be legal, might have more of a chance to have someone important see it.

honestly in my opinion, the best idea to do right now, with very little amounts of money, probably under $50 to start, is make a real commercials with statistics and good to know information, then post the low budget commercial on youtube. its one of the most widely visited websites.

if you were wanting to do this, i would down to help maybe make a few myself, maybe going to the medicinal marijuana

eventually, when enough people watch them, you might be able to get a couple endorsements by someone famous, like willie nelson, or joe rogan, to appear in one of your commercials, eventually growing the company and getting more and more sponsors eventually leading to commercials nation wide on cable tv.

maybe even going into a legal dispensary, talk to a few people, young and old, and talk to them about it and see if they would want to help out with the commercial. you might even be able to talk a couple dispensary owners into making appearances in the commercial....

 

[orgnlmrwiggles]

just bumping this since i posted this a bit before the NORML commercial competition

 

[Spoc]

Orglmwiggles...Absolutely!!...probably the cheapest and easiest way to get THE message across. Imagine taking the best writer(public speaker) from each of the growing web sites to create a collective voice...... heard by millions. The reward would be ten fold over a donation as you ARE the movement.

 

[hempcurescancer]

A commercial was made in california, and people protested.

The general public only accepts anti cannabis commercials, put one on promoting cannabis and you'll have people pissed off. Mainly because of children.

 

[orgnlmrwiggles]

A commercial was made in california, and people protested.

The general public only accepts anti cannabis commercials, put one on promoting cannabis and you'll have people pissed off. Mainly because of children.

your right but you know what.. in one of my business courses in college, my professor told us that a study was done with kids, they were shown tons of commercials and at the end they were told to tell them which ones they liked the best. most if not all of them refferred to a frog commercial. any idea? thats right, budweiser. the other commercials the kids noticed the most were other beer and alcohol commercials. the frog bud-weis-er commercial was running when i was a kid, oddly, budweiser is the only beer i drink now. thats just marketing.

what im trying to say is that there are plenty of alchol commercials that glamorize IT! and look how many kids and adults die every year because of alcohol, either accidents, OD's, etc.. thats why they say "use alcohol responsibly".. "use marijuana responisbly"

 

[orgnlmrwiggles]

A commercial was made in california, and people protested.

The general public only accepts anti cannabis commercials, put one on promoting cannabis and you'll have people pissed off. Mainly because of children.

another thing, why not have marijuana activist start protesting alcohol commercials and demand equal rights. not allowing them to show pro-mj commercials is almost as bad as telling a black to go to drink from a different water fountain..

 

[hempcurescancer]

your right but you know what.. in one of my business courses in college, my professor told us that a study was done with kids, they were shown tons of commercials and at the end they were told to tell them which ones they liked the best. most if not all of them refferred to a frog commercial. any idea? thats right, budweiser. the other commercials the kids noticed the most were other beer and alcohol commercials. the frog bud-weis-er commercial was running when i was a kid, oddly, budweiser is the only beer i drink now. thats just marketing.

what im trying to say is that there are plenty of alchol commercials that glamorize IT! and look how many kids and adults die every year because of alcohol, either accidents, OD's, etc.. thats why they say "use alcohol responsibly".. "use marijuana responisbly"

You're exactly right, and its funny how nobody cares about kids seeing alcohol commercials, because money is being made from it.

 

[x<Juniper][niartS>x]

Does anyone remember the name of the thread that someone posted their college paper in? It had all the necessary info to make on outstanding commercial right there. I'm totally down for the commercial idea though. Are we all supposed to make one or are we nominating a spokesperson?

 

[westhamm1132]

sorry to say but mj will NEVER be legal in the u.s beacuse of the treatys they made and made most of the world sighn if they legalised it they would look stupid and the senate would never allow that thats why there still fighting a un winable war in afghnistan and thats why they stayed in vietnam for so long they didnt wanna look bad in front of the world.

it wouldnt matter if you got a million people to march on washington its just not gunna happen your dumb presidants took the war on drugs to far to just turn around and say "o well its not workin out lets legalise it".

but there is hope for mmj tho.

 

[orgnlmrwiggles]

sorry to say but mj will NEVER be legal in the u.s beacuse of the treatys they made and made most of the world sighn if they legalised it they would look stupid and the senate would never allow that thats why there still fighting a un winable war in afghnistan and thats why they stayed in vietnam for so long they didnt wanna look bad in front of the world.

it wouldnt matter if you got a million people to march on washington its just not gunna happen your dumb presidants took the war on drugs to far to just turn around and say "o well its not workin out lets legalise it".

but there is hope for mmj tho.

you're right, because of the treaties, i actually wrote a paper on this as well for a college english class. however, like amsterdam and a few other countries, they are able to have a moratorium (i cant think of the right word cuz im high at the moment).

i think afghanistan is a good thing. iraq was a different story..

ill post my essay later.

 

[orgnlmrwiggles]

im not posting my sources for my own reasons.

Marijuana : Whats up?​

Marijuana has been around for thousands of years, even though so many people are against it today. The first known uses of cannabis were in ancient times. Cultures and religions used marijuana throughout Africa, India, China, and the Middle East dating as far back as 2500 B.C.. The development of many countries has succeeded from marijuana plants, including America. After studies done in between the World Wars, the American Government and the AMA (American Medical Association) found marijuana to be as equally harmful to American morality and culture as heroin, cocaine. It was then denounced illegal upon implementation of the Marijuana Stamp Act (1937). Although the act was supposed to allow the marijuana industry to continue, there were extremely high taxes that were added to eliminate marijuana production. Although when it was first illegalized there were very few known medical uses, since then, there have been an excruciating number of medical experiments showing the many medical uses of marijuana. There are even more uses beyond the medical field that have been adopted by marijuana users over the years. The prohibition has only helped criminals, while deceiving everyone else. Over the past 80 years, Americans have been conditioned to behave negatively against marijuana. The numerous ways that Americans were induced into believing marijuana is bad was immoral and unjust and the misunderstanding has still not been brought to light. With the ever-growing information on the topic, it is easy to see that the pros easily outweigh the cons of marijuana legalization. America and the world would be completely different if marijuana was not looked upon as such a terrible substance as cocaine and heroin.
Marijuana first became illegal in 1937, after many years of using the industrial values of hemp for development and trade. In 1619, there was actually a law passed mandating farmers to grow Indian hemp seed for 200 years. By 1850, an American census counted around 8,300 farms growing marijuana, all of which were over 2,000 acres. In the 1930&#8217;s, the great depression caused people to look at the massive unemployment, and some tied unemployment to the growing number of immigrants, specifically Spanish speaking immigrants like we do today. The American people also linked the Spanish speaking people to marijuana because they had first introduced them to the recreational use of marijuana in the 1920&#8217;s. During this time, many studies were done, and in conclusion, marijuana was directly linked to violence, crimes, and other deviant actions.
Also during the 30&#8217;s, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was founded, positioning a man named Henry J. Anslinger as commissioner. Anslinger had the support of wealthy business owners, William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Mellon, and Lammont Dupont behind him on his anti-marijuana campaign. Hearst was a wealthy magazine and newspaper tycoon, who took advantage of Anslinger&#8217;s idea of anti-marijuana propaganda in his newspapers. One of these flyers said, &#8220;A fifth column sowing of destruction in the youth of America&#8230; Devils harvest. A good girl until she lights a reefer. The smoke of hell!&#8221; another stating, &#8220;Marihuana. Weed with roots in hell. Weird orgies. Wild Parties. Unleashed passion. Misery.&#8221; This propaganda scared many Americans away from marijuana use even though the images depicted were blatantly made up. The marijuana propaganda may have been lurid and even a complete exaggeration but it sold Hearst&#8217;s newspapers during a time of panic and spread the word far and wide for Anslinger&#8217;s cause. All of Anslinger&#8217;s fantasies came true about the evils of the cannabis plant when a movie called, &#8220;Reefer Madness&#8221; came out in the 30&#8217;s. This movie only helped spread Anslinger&#8217;s ideas of drug prohibition. After Anslinger&#8217;s report to the Supreme Courts, the courts decided that there are not enough medical uses and industrial uses to have marijuana legal, so they passed the Marijuana Stamp Act of 1937; making cannabis plants illegal unless taxes were paid to acquire a stamp that gave them permission to grow medicinally or industrially only, however, the stamps were never made available. Upon Anslinger&#8217;s submission to the courts, the American Medical Association made a statement to the courts stating,
&#8220;The American Medical Association has no objection to any reasonable regulation of the medicinal use of cannabis [.] t does protest [. . .] against being called upon to pay a special tax to use special order forms in order to procure the drug, to keep special records concerning its professional use and to make special returns to the Treasury Department officials to use special order forms in order to procure the drug, to keep special records concerning its professional use and to make special returns to the Treasury Department officials,&#8221;
This was exactly what the stamp act was supposed to do to try and discourage people from trying to seek out the drug. The American Government decided that marijuana had too many negative impacts with not enough positives, so the law was made. The law was made under poor judgment and lack of facts. The way the law was created, through propaganda and lies, was immoral and wrong.
By World War 2, &#8220;Hemp for Victory!&#8221; was the slogan in a 1943 informative film produced to encourage the growth of hemp for the war. Although the Hemp was momentarily legalized, hemp compared to cannabis sativa has minimal amounts of the drug in marijuana that creates the euphoric feeling, THC. The Boggs Act in 1952 and the Narcotics Control Act of 1956 set mandatory sentences for marijuana and other drug-related offenses. During the 60&#8217;s, after many more studies and journals had been published, the government found that marijuana &#8220;&#8230; did not induce violence nor lead to use of heavier drugs.&#8221; Since these Acts have been passed, there have been a surplus amount of studies and journals written from medical schools all over, including from the American Medical Association. The American Medical Association has recently announced they will reconsider marijuana for the first time since 1970&#8217;s Controlled Substance Act.
There have recently been huge findings of medical uses through a broad range of problems; the drug has been used for chronic pains, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, depression, anxiety, insomnia, anorexia, migraines, Alzheimer&#8217;s, and even menstruation. Researchers at Harvard University have said recently that targeting cancer with THC reduces the tumor growth up to 50%, while at the California Pacific Medical Center are stating that one chemical in cannabis, CBD, can actually stop the spread of cancer from the breast. Other studies are showing that marijuana can actually help with opium-dependent behaviors. The list of medical uses alone is extensive and ever-growing.
The dilemma is that marijuana effects are, at this time, unknown. What is known so far is that marijuana can have an effect on the lungs and pulmonary system. Inhaling any kind of smoke, whether it be marijuana smoke, barbeque smoke or a house on fire&#8217;s smoke, it is bad for you. Any smoke carries carcinogens which are bad for your lungs. There actually have been new inventions made to assist with this problem though, called vaporizers, which instead of disbursing a smoke, it disburses a water vapor that you inhale. Other issues with the drug use include, problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, loss of coordination, increased heart rate and anxiety sometimes leading to panic attacks which are fairly common in new users. This is what normally deters most people away from cannabis once they try it. Other conflicts with marijuana use include it really being addictive, but unlike heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines, there is much less of a come down and detoxification. With the harder drugs like heroin, convulsions are common, have difficulty breathing, throw up, getting cold sweats, chronic pains and the list goes on. With marijuana, the detoxification process includes more mental effects rather than physical, including irritability, nervousness, anxiety, insomnia and changes in appetite.
Aside from the strict medicinal use, many users are using marijuana throughout social activities. They are also using marijuana for safe all natural relaxants and safe all natural sleeping aids without having to get a prescription for. If the cannabis seed is made into foods, it is highly nutritious being rich in essential proteins, omega fatty acids and Vitamin E and K. That actually makes cannabis seeds and oils the most nutritious vegetable on the planet. Smoking or ingesting marijuana at the end of a long day at work gives many people peace, and relaxation. It frees their minds, while allowing them to think about subjects that may have not caught their interests. It can be a much healthier substitute for alcohol, which I would consider today&#8217;s most commonly used drug. Alcohol is used socially to interact with people and mingle, but with marijuana being illegal, the majority of the people that use marijuana are being made to do so in private, completely making them asocial. It is also used by people with aggression and violence issues to calm them down. From personal experience of my dad smoking cannabis compared to his drinking of alcohol, I can say that the illegal marijuana makes him one of the most loving people in the world, while a legal drug such as alcohol, on the other hand, can cause him to be the most disrespectful, aggressive and violent person in the world.
Prohibition of marijuana has proven to be most like the prohibition of alcohol; a failure. There are billions of dollars a year spent to fight marijuana. The prohibition, like alcohol, has only given gangs, and other illegal groups&#8217; means of operating. It is allowing these groups to make a profit to purchase weapons and other hard drugs. With marijuana being illegal, it is making many marijuana users go to shady characters and unsafe conditions to pick up their cannabis. The legalization would eliminate the criminal middle man, taking away all of the sales and profits from the illegal drug dealers. The prohibition only has people hiding their habits and causing more people to be scared away from the natural plant and the truth. The propaganda created by top officials in our country was immorally implemented through scare tactics. The law is unjust to have a drug, like alcohol, being legal, while being way more dangerous than marijuana. Alcohol kills hundreds of people a year from overdose alone, not to mention the thousands of car accidents it causes a year; the numerous rapes and murders because of an individual being under the influence of alcohol. Marijuana still has yet to have one reported incident stating someone has died from an overdose and alcohol is the issue. Even some completely legal drugs such as Tylenol and certain cough medicines have been linked to deaths by overdose.
If the prohibition ended, many legitimate Americans could make extra money to support themselves by bringing organic, all natural, marijuana products to flea markets and farmer&#8217;s markets each week. Some people say that with legalization, they would want to charge a fifty dollar per plant tax. I believe this is a bad idea for you can make homemade beer and wine while not having to pay a dime.
I believe if Thorbeau and King were here to see that these unjust laws are still implemented, they would become the wise minority. I think they would see that the same people that had implemented and upheld the same laws that kept blacks and whites segregated were the same people that implemented these marijuana laws. They would think they are taking away our liberties and pursuit of happiness. They are taking away a peaceful thing that is used to deter anger, sadness, and apathy, while accepting empathy, love and laughter.
After all the years of prohibition, marijuana is still illegal for most Americans. The country has done a wonderful job at deceiving our eyes and making us think what they want us to think. There has been no justifiable action to show that marijuana was, is, or will be dangerous enough to keep illegal while alcohol is still legal. All of the research in the world points to marijuana being less addictive than caffeine and being less dangerous than opium, cocaine and alcohol. The information is out there, but our government needs to start sharing the truth with the American people. The morality of the way they induced Americans by making them think marijuana was so horrible and dangerous was very wrong. The justice system should think again about leaving marijuana completely illegal because the reasons that are so widely accepted for being so positive now are hugely outweighing the negatives of the drug.