They will come for you and yours...

[KanMan]

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing.

Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing.

Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist.

And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little.

Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me."

German Protestant Pastor Martin Niemöller 1892-1984

[Storm Crow]

Kids, KanMan is right! How many of your friends have been taken? We all should do something- it could be as simple as popping over to High Times and sending their prewritten e-letters to give your opinion about marijuana issues. You could write a letter to a POW of the drug war (Randy Brush #502945, PCI, POB 209, Orient, Ohio 43146 - A nice guy, carpenter, turned in by his ex. He got 3 years for 4 plants and is in a wheelchair half the time!) If you have a medical problem, become a researcher and collect scientific studies about cannabis' healing properties and send it to your doctor, congressperson and show it to friends and prohibitionist idiots. If you're employed, send a couple bucks to NORML or ASA. Plant all seeds that you get- doesn't matter if you ever harvest them- just plant them! VOTE!!!! Get registered and get your stoned self to the polls! I love voting stoned as possible (we got to get bush and his cronies out of office!). If even one tenth of the people who smoke raised their voices, pot would be legal. You don't have to put your life on hold to be an activist- just do one good thing a week! There are a LOT of pot smokers out there- many whom you wouldn't suspect! You wouldn't know I smoke! I'm 59 and work at a school (be nice to that elderly, smiling teacher's aide- it might be me!). You want LEGAL pot? All we have to do is be active and let our voice be heard! Or are you going to wait for that heavy knock on the door when they come for you?

[Markass]

Right on. "Our drug laws do not target the users" Yes they do. A law against marijuana doesn't protect us...It jails and imprisons all of those nice people around us who never seemed to hurt anyone.

I wouldn't want my kids being arrested just because they wanted to smoke weed instead of drink alcohol, which is what a lot of teenagers enjoy doing...I don't. Smoking is almost harmless, and it isn't a crime.

It'll be our generation if any. Every day across America, more and more individuals smoke marijuana and realize that it isn't anything as has been told to them their entire lives. "Hey, that felt so cool when I smoked weed the other day, and when I woke up in the morning I didn't even have a headache!" That's because marijuana isn't toxic..woot. I think we'll get what we want...Just gotta keep toking and doing what we can.

[eduDrekoT]

Abraham knew
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln, December, 1840

Albert knew
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921

Author unknown
"Virtually all reasonable laws are obeyed, not because they are the law, but because reasonable people would do that anyway. If you obey a law simply because it is the law, that's a pretty likely sign that it shouldn't be a law."

Thomas Jefferson
"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills."


"Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does."
"Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was."
US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991

The list goes on and on, yet they still won't listen.

[MastaChronic]

because the emperor wears no clothes

[PieEyedPiper]

(Round) figures from Australia, pop 20million, for the year 2005 (Bureau of Statistics) Alcohol related deaths :- 7,000
Cannabis related deaths :- 0. Makes ya wonder!!