Please support H.R. 2306: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011

There are several things you can do personally to help support this Bill.

1. you can contact your local house/senate representatives and urge them to vote "yes" on this Bill, phone contact is most effective in the weeks leading up to the docket so if you can obtain their numbers and blow up their phone lines that will help.
2. you can sign our petition at Washington letting Obama know how many people are willing to put their own names behind this legislation.
3. you can abstain from doing anything stupid in the next year involving Mary J. that might give the opposition some media attention to support their anti-pot propaganda campaign (if history is any lesson).

Here is the petition at Washington:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/legalize-and-regulate-marijuana-manner-similar-alcohol/y8l45gb1

and here is the current Bill that needs our support:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2306

thank you in advance for your support

jerm :cool:
 

silasraven

Well-Known Member
you can blow their phone to herishima (please help me spell that right) for all it matter what ever your rep wants he gets. just like the electoral college your vote doesn't count. its all in the hands of the man who you or someone else voted into office. It IS a waste of time. though i do support your effort to get the plant legalized. it will have to take ass backward ronald reagen to get it legalized
 
contrary to stoner belief petitions and phone calls from registered voters does make a difference in swaying the opinion for our representatives (especially the ones up for re-election.) which means swaying their vote sometimes to agree with their supporters.

We also have the constitutional right to petition the legislative branch and make our "voting" voices heard, so to not take advantage of our democratic system and just say it's pointless, give up or expect someone else to do it is a waste of that freedom IMHO.

If I had 1 voting user of pot willing to stick his neck out there in a public petition for every 10 whom for whatever reason won't we would already be up to 100,000 sigs maybe more (which would be real helpful at the time HR 2306 reaches the House) the Cotton industry uses the same right to lobby and keep Mary J illegal along with every other major lobbying group. So basically what Washington is saying is potheads are too stupid and unorganized to be part of the democratic process, well sorry but here is one who disagrees and is willing to let them know it in sheer numbers.

well for those of you that don't want to be involved in this revolution, please at the least do #3 in the OP.

jerm 8)
 

beardo

Well-Known Member
contrary to stoner belief petitions and phone calls from registered voters does make a difference in swaying the opinion for our representatives (especially the ones up for re-election.) which means swaying their vote sometimes to agree with their supporters.

We also have the constitutional right to petition the legislative branch and make our "voting" voices heard, so to not take advantage of our democratic system and just say it's pointless, give up or expect someone else to do it is a waste of that freedom IMHO.

If I had 1 voting user of pot willing to stick his neck out there in a public petition for every 10 whom for whatever reason won't we would already be up to 100,000 sigs maybe more (which would be real helpful at the time HR 2306 reaches the House) the Cotton industry uses the same right to lobby and keep Mary J illegal along with every other major lobbying group. So basically what Washington is saying is potheads are too stupid and unorganized to be part of the democratic process, well sorry but here is one who disagrees and is willing to let them know it in sheer numbers.

well for those of you that don't want to be involved in this revolution, please at the least do #3 in the OP.

jerm 8)
Your post had me laughing so hard I allmost fell on the floor
It must be nice to be young and naive
Good luck
 

blazinkill504

Well-Known Member
the people that speak on the behalf of pot dont know how to combat the ones askin the questions and that are against it. they franky act like pussies and dont wanna put real hands on facts out for debate. like for one id ask them and we could even do the little experiment lemme smoke as much as i possibly can in a half hour-hour however long they wanna make it...and have another sit there and drink for the same time and after that wait another half hour and put both of us behind a car and see which is more dangerous. i know for a damn fact it wont be me. by havin it illegal they're makin it a gateway drug cause the harder shit is bein sold by the dude who sells weed too...our country is filled with morons
 
Your post had me laughing so hard I allmost fell on the floor
It must be nice to be young and naive
Good luck
it is nice to be young, or at any age to still have hope for change and faith in the democratic process....when you're that young you can still hear the wind of change whistling...
Petitions are a part of the US going back to day one.

I guess those guys, Jefferson, Adams, Washington, were all young and naive too. :roll:

we watch every day as the opposition successfully lobbies their positions and their amendments get passed, guess they are naive too.

More naive people here:

The first[6] significant exercise and defense of the right to petition within the U.S. was to advocate the end of slavery by petitioning Congress in the mid 1830s, including 130,000 such requests in 1837 and 1838.
we all know how that one turned out....

Truth is many pot smokers don't vote or aren't even registered, so their voices are never heard and they convey this by a sense of hopelessness that nothing is ever going change, well it won't, not that way anyway.
It's a historic fact that lobbies and petitions shape the way in which laws are made, and the way in which the legislative branch votes on those bills, to ignore that because other groups (like the Cotton industry) have been successful in using their influence in Washington to keep MJ illegal is a bit naive IMHO.

Washington does still think potheads are too unorganized and unified in mission to lobby successfully for any bill, and that may have been true for decades in the past, however the times they are a changin'.

jerm
 
the people that speak on the behalf of pot dont know how to combat the ones askin the questions and that are against it. they franky act like pussies and dont wanna put real hands on facts out for debate. like for one id ask them and we could even do the little experiment lemme smoke as much as i possibly can in a half hour-hour however long they wanna make it...and have another sit there and drink for the same time and after that wait another half hour and put both of us behind a car and see which is more dangerous. i know for a damn fact it wont be me. by havin it illegal they're makin it a gateway drug cause the harder shit is bein sold by the dude who sells weed too...our country is filled with morons
we're not asking anyone to speak on the behalf of pot or even to debate it's pros and cons at all, the legislation to legalize Mary J is already at Washington (HR 2306), as well as the accompanying petition for Obama of voting citizens who agree (currently 74,000) all that is left is the Votes of our representatives either ya nor nay.

In the past the cotton lobbies have spent thousands on smear champagnes and propaganda to sway public opinion on the use of Mary J, entering a debate with such unscrupulous parties would be futile.

jerm
 
you can blow their phone to herishima (please help me spell that right) for all it matter what ever your rep wants he gets. just like the electoral college your vote doesn't count. its all in the hands of the man who you or someone else voted into office. It IS a waste of time. though i do support your effort to get the plant legalized. it will have to take ass backward ronald reagen to get it legalized
The president is just but one step in the process (the final step) there is a long way to go before it even reaches his desk.

say what you want about Ronald Regan, but if memory serves me correct he was one of the last few presidents not to cow tow to big business lobbies, had a good domestic policy, reduced taxes and kept inflation lower than his predecessors, yes he heightened the war on drugs, but if Mary J would be legal it would not have been effected.

jerm
 

beardo

Well-Known Member
His Presidency is like a person with a credit card with a HUGE spending limit. As long as you are spending, life is great (the 80's were an awesome time). However, eventually the credit card bills back up and the bad times come about...this the BUSH I Presidency...increased taxes to pay the "credit card bill." Recession...brought on by over spending in the 80's.

Personally, I can not believe that Ronald Reagan is thought of as a great president. He continued his acting career all the way to the White House.
Yeah, george bush was in charge during his presidency-
And I hold a resentment for his administration turning our citys into war zones and the poor into crack zombies- Destroyed lots of lives they did.
 
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