A Judge refuses to enforce a newer and harsher cannabis law and steps down.
Lafayette judge steps down: Frieling won't enforce new marijuana law : Lafayette : Boulder Daily Camera
Maybe a change is on the horizon.
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A Judge refuses to enforce a newer and harsher cannabis law and steps down.
Lafayette judge steps down: Frieling won't enforce new marijuana law : Lafayette : Boulder Daily Camera
Maybe a change is on the horizon.
But that's just one less person in the legal system that will be around to try and change it
as much as i'd like to believe that means a new horizon is in store...
i'm sure we all pretty much agree it won't.... infact, i bet all the non smokers who want harsh ass penalties for pot smokers are sitting there going "i bet that judge was a pot smoker..." lol....
he'll just be replaced by someone who's mindless and will do the exact bidding of the govt... (not conspiracy type shit, but c'mon, what is a judge? someone who is dispatched to deal with the matters of legality and hand down sentencing to 'criminals'... even if they don't agree with it, they're obligated to enforce 'the law'.... i.e. the govt's. bidding..)
now maybe if a bunch of other judges and high law officals started stepping down and refusing to any longer wrongly persecute us... maybe just MAYBE it might cause some uproar and people would open their eyes... but one judge? no... as much as i'd want it to be true, it's just not gonna happen (i'm a pesimist, but not in the fact that 'everything sucks and is out to get me'.. just alot of things i sit there and look at logically, and judge from past experiences... just happen to [really fucked up the spelling on this so i'll spell it how it sounds] co-inside with pesimistic behavior...)
A public step down is noted by the people. Sometimes the people need to see that even the judges are unhappy with the laws. Maybe it will hit a soft spot in a few people.
What you're saying is most definitely more likely but maybe this will be the straw that breaks the camels back. Better than nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho
but how many people live in the us? a few people isn't enough... it'd have to hit a soft spot with hundreds of thousands or even millions to really make things change... maybe over something smaller it wouldnt' take so many.. but drugs is something fairly high up there.... it'd take a very good ammount of voting public to actually change anything (although we are getting close... the last elections told me that... they were pretty much half and half.... no legalization only won by 10 percent or lower... if you had that same vote 50 years ago it would have been a total land slide...)
we can only hope.. and even tho i wouldn't be seen as someone medical worthy... i still hope atleast for the med patients who NEED it, people open their eyes... i seriously mean it, even if it would mean harsher (not saying it would just as an instance in how strongly i believe in medical legalization, and not just on a state level, a federal level... a whole shit load of medical despensaries got shut down by feds not too long ago...) punishment for those of us who don't have 'medical right' to be smoking it... i still hope for medical legalization.. becuase there are people out there who have serious illnesses and ailments, that really only weed does the job it needs to do (there are pills, that lower pain for instance, but at the same time, they have severe side effects... and a good portion of the people on those hard pills, end up becoming addicted and start using them in a way it's not supposed to be... and end up dying...)