Did the Government Win?

Xoshua said:

Wow very insperational. I understand it a bit better now. What I would like to know is how do we speed up the process? We submit those white house questions and they don't respond. I have a feeling some sort of event needs to happen to make this ball rolling so what will it be?

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I would say super drunken riots and protests but something tells me the irony would go over their heads

Okay I understand but my question is, what steps must we do to legalize on a state or province side? I'm interested in how to change province laws in Canada as well. Do I call my MP? Can I walk around and get 10 000 written signatures to legalize it provincial wise?

Overwhelming acceptance, cooperation, and understanding are what we need to make it happen. Unfortunately most people think of marijuana as a "drug" that has no benefit, by being the stand up, respectful, peaceful and NORMAL people that most of us users are, is what will change the face of marijuana. It is still associated with laziness, poor habits, dead end streets, jail, greed (money), and doing the "wrong thing", at least depending on where you reside. People dont understand the culture that we have, and it is growing everyday. We are a family that take care of each other, look out for one another, and understand one another.It is slowly becoming more acceptable on a widespread basis, but until people stop associating cannabis with whats "wrong" instead of whats right, we havent won the battle. Once people understand that cannabis users are the ones helping the problem, rather than making it worse, by advocating fair regulation and changing peoples outlook we will slowly begin to gain more ground.

aptFarmer said:

Overwhelming acceptance, cooperation, and understanding are what we need to make it happen. Unfortunately most people think of marijuana as a "drug" that has no benefit, by being the stand up, respectful, peaceful and NORMAL people that most of us users are, is what will change the face of marijuana. It is still associated with laziness, poor habits, dead end streets, jail, greed (money), and doing the "wrong thing", at least depending on where you reside. People dont understand the culture that we have, and it is growing everyday. We are a family that take care of each other, look out for one another, and understand one another.It is slowly becoming more acceptable on a widespread basis, but until people stop associating cannabis with whats "wrong" instead of whats right, we havent won the battle. Once people understand that cannabis users are the ones helping the problem, rather than making it worse, by advocating fair regulation and changing peoples outlook we will slowly begin to gain more ground.

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I understand what your saying but it still didn't say an action plan. Yes once people realize the truth it will make it legalized but how do we go about a legal option to destroy the illegalization. The last time I checked the laws were created for the people so can't we DO something? Honestly, if over 50% of my countries population want to end prohibition why can't majority rule?

I am going to look into the history of how the alcohol prohibition died to get some hints. <- See what I did there? We need a few law people on the legalization side researching the law around cannabis and we need to know what we have to do in order to dismiss this. I know we have NORML and a few groups but in order to get this legal we need to work together and use our skills to fix this.

I really do love the comments and views on this topic. So how to we the people fix an outdated law? I know they made crazy laws in the past and "Updated" them in the present since it wasn't relevant anymore didn't they? So how do we go about doing that?

think about the repeal of jim crow laws - segregation, civil rights.. the truth has to come out at some point in any situation - sometimes things are understood fully only many years after the fact.. this has been 100 years of lies, corruption, conspiracy, persecution and oppression over a plant.. a plant that grows out of the ground and has leaves.. can you even say that the opium poppy has been as costly a misunderstanding of nature?

here is an idea - i firmly believe that cannabis prohibition has a LOT to do with hemp - if we can legalize harmless old hemp - i think that the oil barons, timber lords, cotton gods, and coal magnates would back the f off of harmless old weed...

You might be right, and if theres one thing to influence the federal governments mind, its big business. That's the sick part about it, the government only sees how they can gain from it. They wouldnt want to legalize it just because majority rules, because they make more money off it being illegal from fines. They would also argue that it only opens up the availability of drug use and promotes trafficking. To change the laws, we need to come up with a mutualistically beneficial solution. Thinking on the topics of taxation of cannabis and expensive permits to grow could perhaps persuade the government to be on our side. I do believe that involving the members of the government (senators, prime ministers, governors, state reps) is also necessary. They are the people we vote into office to voice our opinions. Urging our government officials to find a solution that lets us all enjoy cannabis legally, without fear of prosecution in exchange for taxation is probably the most realistic solution.

Xoshua said:

Wow very insperational. I understand it a bit better now. What I would like to know is how do we speed up the process? We submit those white house questions and they don't respond. I have a feeling some sort of event needs to happen to make this ball rolling so what will it be?

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