It has gone so far as to make me sad now

[A Scanner Darkly]

I was just watching a video on YouTube, a news piece from (I think) Canada reporting on marijuana smuggling.

The blatant lies and scare tactics that are used to keep marijuana illegal at first made me mad. Mad that people could be so ignorant or greedy or corrupt as to prevent the lawful use of this plant for medicinal or recreational means.

Then I stopped feeling mad and just felt overwhelming despair over the whole thing. To think we have come so far as a species to this point, yet somehow managed to be ass-backwards in recent years.

I am more and more considering the desire I feel to live in another country besides America. The fascism of the new millennium.

[pass the chicken]

mad probs i get too emotion when disscussing my lack of freedoms and run on and on and make all sorts of points completly unrelated but still good points I'm just too scatter brained to be a helpful activist

[B.Basher]

It's a shitty deal man, but if your taking that perspective i'd say the human race is guilty of a whole lot more fucked up shit then lack of herbal recognition (:stoned:). If your gonna get down about stuff, be down about how totally and hopelessly corrupt, backward and confused we are on a whole. Yes, we are evolved and intelligent, so why do we still rape, murder, lie, steal and manipulate one another?

OR... you can sit back, relax, chill with your good friends and remember that you can make a change just by aknowledging such a thing.

:thumbsup:

[Storm Crow]

Running away to a foreign land or doing nothing is not the way to go! Social apathy and escapism are a big part of all our problems! We are LETTING the b*stards do this to us! Are you registered to vote? Unless you are underage, why not? You know how a muscle will atrophy if you don't use it? Well, free speech is the same! Unless you use it, you lose it!

So get off your little stoned behinds and do something. You obviously know how to write, so write a letter to your local political people You can get their addresses online very easily or from your newspaper. Say that you support medical marijuana (if not full legalization) and wish to see it available at least to the ill. Even someone who is a self-described "scatterbrain" can make up a form letter and send a copy of it to their senators, congresspeople, governors and mayors. Stamps don't cost that much. Send a "I'll vote for you" letter to New Mexico's governor, who is poised to make NM the 12th MMJ state, and looks like he will run for president. (Wouldn't that be a refreshing change from bush!)

Another thing is that there are thousands of people who are in jail for using. I'm willing to bet that you know one. How about dropping them a line, now and then. (Call up their Mom- she'll have the address, or maybe NORML or ASA could find you one)?

My "pen pal", Randy Brush, just got released to a halfway house after getting 3 years for 4 plants. He's in a wheel chair half the time and was using medicinally. In another two months, he'll be free! I've never met him or spoken to him, but we have a great friendship. When you're in jail,getting a letter or even a pretty postcard, makes a day feel like Xmas when you were a little kid.

Another bit of activism for springtime, is to go on a "picnic" to some untraveled area, and plant your seeds! It doesn't matter if you never go back there, if they are just "bag seed", or even seeds from when your plant "hermied"- just plant them! Think on how many seeds are produced every year. Think of them planted! :D

Activists are not all out there "singin' songs and carrying signs", some of us do the millions "little things" that eventually make a difference for us all. 80% of the people believe that MMJ should be available-that wasn't true 10 years ago. If we all become activists (vote, write, convince others), the politico's HAVE to listen or be voted out! If each of you wrote a letter...think of the effect!

"Little drops of water, tiny grains of sand,
Make the might ocean and the broad sea strand."

Granny:hippy:

[pass the chicken]

it's not the keeping herb illegal so much as the squashing most of our freedom using lies. I vote every election Since my 18th B-day only been one and that was the state elections. But they spread around anti-drug commercials. key word Commercials about the same drugs they're supplying. They go to the middle east and central america. Start wars between the people who live there, the ones who aren't killed are put to work growing the drugs that our government sells to its citizens. Then they take them to jail taking everything penny they have. Don't know bout your state but here in Michigan that's called entrapment. State and local government can't do it why should the Feds? The people working for the government work for us not the other way around. It's their job to protect us as citizens, not lock us in cages like animals. I understand that this is what America has done for decades to stay on top. But they don't even try to hide it from us anymore. Want an example? You can get meth at any corner store. I can get a pack of rat posion for inhaling(ciggs.) at the corner store. Afghanistan put out more opium after we invaded then they ever did before. Need i mention the Contras? That is what saddens me into wanting to leave my homeland. Not the fact I can't get weed at the store after things like the list above weed legality doesn't mean to much to me.

[Maggz]

I SMOKE THAT MARA WANNA NAHMEAN, JAHMEAN MAN! GONNA KILL DEM BABYLON