LAX Skunky BwS
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ahahaha.. youz a silly white boy
Will marijuana ever truly be legal again in the US?
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LAX Skunky BwS
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big talk over the internet ... typical
whulkamania
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misshestermoffitt
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What we need to do now that Obama is president is have every person that wants legal weed to pitch in 1 dollar. We can start rerunning those old marijuana madness adds.
"Marijuana, makes darky think he's as good as a white man"
"Marijuana, makes white women want to have sexual relations with jazz musicians"
"Marijuana, makes black men want to rape white women"
these are all slogans that were used to poison people against Marijuana. Imagine the public outcry of racism if these adds started airing on primetime TV. I imagine more than one person would be offended.
"Marijuana, makes darky think he's as good as a white man"
"Marijuana, makes white women want to have sexual relations with jazz musicians"
"Marijuana, makes black men want to rape white women"
these are all slogans that were used to poison people against Marijuana. Imagine the public outcry of racism if these adds started airing on primetime TV. I imagine more than one person would be offended.
misshestermoffitt
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I must agree with Wulk on this grammer issue. People see marijuana users as uneducated losers. When we type and talk with such poor grammer it plays right into the anti-pot case. If all marijuana users were polite and articulate it might help our cause, wouldn't you agree?
NuteGreenwitch
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I concur with that. Sometimes I get into these threads and come across such poorly written garbage that I have to back out because I realize I'm not even stoned and have to read it three or four times before I can decipher half of what the author TRIED to iterate.
jimmyomniscient
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Mississippi has decriminalized possession under 30 grams for first offenses. It's a 200 dollar fine(give or take).
tweach1
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LOL i cracked up after reading that + REPS!!
tweach1
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HA!!!
Grammatical error you grammar nazi. Its their
guess this makes me a grammar nazi too.
NomadicSky
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And it's gone down from an ounce a year ago.
Still it is better to get caught in Mississippi with it than Tennessee or Alabama.
jimmyomniscient
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Ahh shit. What's the current weight?
NomadicSky
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30 grams or less first offensive fine.
Last year if it was less than an OZ and it was your first offense it was a fine.
Then in the summer it became a half.
now it's down to 30 g.
flatrider
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that you in the high times mag avatar... LOL hahahahaha
NomadicSky
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Hope everyone has aChristmas
All I could hunt down yesterday was a dime, I was hoping to make gingerbread men I might have to do that next week.
Unfortunately I think that everyone here who thinks it'll become legal puts far too much faith in how the US government works. The ONLY way shit gets done in our government is through 1) Lobbying 2) Lobbying 3) Lobbying and 4) Fear. That's it. Period. That's the way it's been since FDR and the New Deal. The government has been continually expanding and has gotten bigger every decade and shows no signs of stopping.
I have an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. I'm currently a 2nd year Law student. The ONLY Thing I have learned in Law school is that the federal government can do WHATEVER THE FUCK they want and use the Interstate Commerce Clause to justify it. They can ENTRAP Tommy Chong for simply making bongs, and then threaten his family when he tries to bring up a legal defense. While I obviously can't speak directly for the Founding Fathers, i can say that judging from the plethora of history and law i've studied, including many of The Federalist Papers, the writings of Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine, the biography of Thomas Jefferson, hundreds of years of case history that i've been made to read, the founding fathers never intended something like the Controlled Substances Act to exist in this country. But it does now. And there's no way to stop it without a LARGE, CONCERTED public outcry. That will not happen while people are complacent with how things are in society... so we'd have to go to the secondary method of changing things: Lobbying.
The way shit works nowadays is you have to give someone in washington a shit ton of money so they get elected, and they have to do a favor for you. The only way to truly have a law changed is to either be an activist and then become a lobbyist or a Congressman yourself. Marijuana is illegal, which means there are no large marijuana corporations with hundreds of millions of dollars to give to their congressmen or senator in order to influence them to change law. That is the only way to change laws. The only people related to marijuana who have that much money are wealthy celebrities who smoke it or drug kings who absolutely do not want it to become legalized.
I would love to think Obama will change things. He won't. Anyone elected in a 2-party system has to answer to their party, which are ultimately controlled by money from special interest groups. Obama is nominating people to his team who already owe their souls to lobbyists and special interest groups. Read up on who Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle really work for. It's not the American people. I would love to hope that Obama truly represents change, but after he voted for the retroactive telecom immunity for illegal wiretapping, I lost all faith in him.
I know this entire post seems like a huge cynical rant, but as time goes on, as I learn more info, and as I do more of my own research on the internet, all I seem to come across is the cold hard truth that we live in a truly corrupt Corporatocracy and I don't see any way out. The government keeps growing, we keep losing liberties, the drug war expands, and there's not enough pro-freedom, pro-marijuana lobbyists to make anyone in Washington care. It's a shame that people are starving to death everyday, yet our society thinks that it's more important to lock people up that peacefully, quietly, happily enjoy marijuana in their own homes. Maybe one day we can all find a way to change that, and we'll usher in an era of freedom and peace in society not seen in decades. One can hope.
"Instead of a War on Poverty, they got a War on Drugs so the police can bother me." - Tupac
I have an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry. I'm currently a 2nd year Law student. The ONLY Thing I have learned in Law school is that the federal government can do WHATEVER THE FUCK they want and use the Interstate Commerce Clause to justify it. They can ENTRAP Tommy Chong for simply making bongs, and then threaten his family when he tries to bring up a legal defense. While I obviously can't speak directly for the Founding Fathers, i can say that judging from the plethora of history and law i've studied, including many of The Federalist Papers, the writings of Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine, the biography of Thomas Jefferson, hundreds of years of case history that i've been made to read, the founding fathers never intended something like the Controlled Substances Act to exist in this country. But it does now. And there's no way to stop it without a LARGE, CONCERTED public outcry. That will not happen while people are complacent with how things are in society... so we'd have to go to the secondary method of changing things: Lobbying.
The way shit works nowadays is you have to give someone in washington a shit ton of money so they get elected, and they have to do a favor for you. The only way to truly have a law changed is to either be an activist and then become a lobbyist or a Congressman yourself. Marijuana is illegal, which means there are no large marijuana corporations with hundreds of millions of dollars to give to their congressmen or senator in order to influence them to change law. That is the only way to change laws. The only people related to marijuana who have that much money are wealthy celebrities who smoke it or drug kings who absolutely do not want it to become legalized.
I would love to think Obama will change things. He won't. Anyone elected in a 2-party system has to answer to their party, which are ultimately controlled by money from special interest groups. Obama is nominating people to his team who already owe their souls to lobbyists and special interest groups. Read up on who Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle really work for. It's not the American people. I would love to hope that Obama truly represents change, but after he voted for the retroactive telecom immunity for illegal wiretapping, I lost all faith in him.
I know this entire post seems like a huge cynical rant, but as time goes on, as I learn more info, and as I do more of my own research on the internet, all I seem to come across is the cold hard truth that we live in a truly corrupt Corporatocracy and I don't see any way out. The government keeps growing, we keep losing liberties, the drug war expands, and there's not enough pro-freedom, pro-marijuana lobbyists to make anyone in Washington care. It's a shame that people are starving to death everyday, yet our society thinks that it's more important to lock people up that peacefully, quietly, happily enjoy marijuana in their own homes. Maybe one day we can all find a way to change that, and we'll usher in an era of freedom and peace in society not seen in decades. One can hope.
"Instead of a War on Poverty, they got a War on Drugs so the police can bother me." - Tupac
CaRNiFReeK
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I don't think it is cynical at all. I think that you are absolutely right, Nixes.
I think that a revolution would legalize it pretty quickly. Tear down the existing government and build another one in its place. My only question to that is why did America not slip into anarchy whenever our government made the switch from democracy to socialism? Has nobody really grasped it yet? We the people have long ago lost control of our government. The main reason we built America, and the main reason the constitution was written was to safeguard the people from corrupt government. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves.
I think that a revolution would legalize it pretty quickly. Tear down the existing government and build another one in its place. My only question to that is why did America not slip into anarchy whenever our government made the switch from democracy to socialism? Has nobody really grasped it yet? We the people have long ago lost control of our government. The main reason we built America, and the main reason the constitution was written was to safeguard the people from corrupt government. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves.
misshestermoffitt
New Member
Eventually as more people lose their jobs, the corporations that shell out all the money to lobby groups will have less profits and will be shelling out less and less dough each year. If a CEO has to choose "do I pay the lobby groups or do I get a bonus" you know the lobby groups will eventually lose out.
Now is the time for we the marijuana advocates to get with Norml about getting some of our own lobbyists. If we could get every person who enjoys their weed to send in 1 dollar, imagine how much lobby money that would be? Money talks, everything else, walks.......
P S, this has never been a true democracy, this has always been a capitolist nation. Money runs the show
Now is the time for we the marijuana advocates to get with Norml about getting some of our own lobbyists. If we could get every person who enjoys their weed to send in 1 dollar, imagine how much lobby money that would be? Money talks, everything else, walks.......
P S, this has never been a true democracy, this has always been a capitolist nation. Money runs the show
greenearth5
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ive heard allot of you say allot of negative things about legalizing marijuana. If you so much as focus on all the bad stuff happening around you then you will slowely turn into this negative attitude person. Nearly half of you are like this. But if you start thinking more positively then you will start becoming a better and more positive person. If you do the research then you will see that we will have some form of legalized marijauana in the USA. This will probably lie within the regulations of the FDA or medical community. Im not trying to dogg you people either.. Im just saying that if you focus on negativity then you will be negative... this is what america needs to get away from.. all the negative crap.. start thinking positively and people will follow.. i sure as hell dont want to hang with a brother that talks negativley
Marijuana will be legalized in some form within my lifetime...
props to all of you and especially BadDog40, IanCurtisWishList, and the thread master.. all you all have good shit to say.. theres nothing wrong with speaking your opinion.. its all valued here.... peace
Marijuana will be legalized in some form within my lifetime...
props to all of you and especially BadDog40, IanCurtisWishList, and the thread master.. all you all have good shit to say.. theres nothing wrong with speaking your opinion.. its all valued here.... peace