What are we going to do about it?

After reading RESiNATE's last thread, which discusses the legalisation of Cannabis, I got to thinking. Alot of us (me included) complain that Cannabis is illegal.. I myself rant and rave to anyone that will listen, if the conversation gets on to a topic thats even slightly related. And, for the first time in my life, im sick of talking about it and sick of hearing about it.. Instead of talking about it I want to DO SOMETHING. The only problem is, I dont quite know what to do. I could join the Legalise Marijuana Party, and show my support, but even though this subject is important to me, i'm not going to help (even in a small way) a political party come in to power that has only addressed one subject. I'm sure if they came in to power in the UK, they would be out-voted in the next elections. So what can I do? I'm just one 17 year old, living on a tiny little island - roughly 46 square miles - in the English Channel, population: 87,186, as of 2001. The last time the subject of Cannabis declassification was brought to the public, there were strong protests, and in the end, Cannabis remained where it was, unlike in the UK, where it was declassified.

A hell of alot of people smoke Cannabis here.. Every time I go to a party, nearly everyone there is smoking weed. Last night, I was sitting in a bar smoking a joint and having a beer with my friends. Every time I saw somebody in the bar that I knew, I offered them the joint, and they accepted it, and nobody - not even the bar staff - told me to put it out, or said 'what the fuck are you doing?!?'... Cannabis is widely used here, widely accepted, and is known to be widely accepted.

So why isn't the government even considering the declassification or even legalisation of it? That was the question i've been asking myself, and I think I know the answer. The answer is, the government is not debating whether or not to change their stance on Cannabis, because nobody is asking them to change their stance on Cannabis. Sure, when the UK was debating whether or not to desclassify it, the government here also debated it, but they quickly 'changed the subject', so to speak, saying they were waiting to see whether the declassification of Cannabis in the UK had a positive or negative effect - as far as I know, they are still waiting.

So how can I ask my government? I cant just approach a States (the States is the name of the governemt here, sort of) member, and say 'Hey, I like to get stoned, and so do alot of my mates.. so can you fix it so I wont get arrested?'.

So what can I do?

I'm sure if I was to write a letter to the JEP (the Jersey Evening Post, the only local newspaper) to appear in their 'Letters to the Editor' section, they would disregard it, and it would have been a waste of my time. The sbuject would not reach the public, and things would continue on as they are. If I was to print thousands of flyers, and hand them to people in the streets, post them all over walls, stick them up in shops and in coffee-shops etc, I would undoubtedly get arrested, and they would be taken down, and I would appear in the newspaper as a criminal, and the governemt would use that to 'muddy the water'. If I were to write letters to a number of local politicans, I would no doubt be ignored. There are no THC Ministries here; there's no way of having a 'Marijuana March', or protest, because there are simply not enough people here; I cant open up a 'cafe' here - I would just get arrested, even if I had the funds to do so.

I think now is the time that we all do something about it. No matter where you live, come up with ideas and do something to get the debate out in the open, once and for all, until our governments decide to make a definite decision, one way or the other.. Do whatever the fuck you can, instead of us all sitting around, complaining about it, like we all do.


Anyway, until someone comes up with an idea that will make an impact big enough to get the debate out in the open, I guess we're just gonna have to accept things as they are, get stoned, and forget about it. :cool:

like I said before if the very slim chance cannabis was to be legalized the goverment would charge and tax it up the ass! And any growers that would be supplying it for cheaper would eventually probably be busted. The Goverment wouldnt want any compeition. So would it be worth it?

MY ANSWER.

JUST MOVE TO AMSTERDAM.

GOVERMENT AITN GONAN LISTEN I FUCKIN WISH THEY WOULD M8. PPL HAVE BEEN DOIN THIS SHIT SINCE THE 70s Man. BUT IM UP FOR DOIN SOMIT. WE ALL SHOULD.

lol rob42

I mean its the goverment. In the other legalized form someone mention that all the people who have been busted for weed and what not could sue the goverment? The Goverment. HA! I dont mean to act negative, but I am being realistic. The goverment can do what they damn well please and who is going to go against it. Sure in America the goverment is courrpt everyone knows it, but we all live so damn well who cares

THINK IOF THEY MADE IT LEGAL THEY WOULD HAVE TO RELEASE ALL THE PPL WHO HAVE BEEN WRONGLY ARRESTED DUE TO CANNABIS AND PPL WOULD TRY TO SUE AND SHIT. :( I WISH IT COULD HAPPEN.

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Originally Posted by robert42

THINK IOF THEY MADE IT LEGAL THEY WOULD HAVE TO RELEASE ALL THE PPL WHO HAVE BEEN WRONGLY ARRESTED DUE TO CANNABIS AND PPL WOULD TRY TO SUE AND SHIT. :( I WISH IT COULD HAPPEN.

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like i said in the other thread, THAT WONT HAPPEN. If you break a law, while the law is in place, then you have broken the law, whether or not the law that you broke is abolished while you are serving your sentence, or whatever.. You still broke the law while the law is in place, it wouldnt matter if the law was changed...

YEA GHOST M8 U R RIGHT ACTUALLY ;)

MY MISTAKE DUE TO MY WAKE AND BAKE ( THAT RHYMED )

Im up for doin somit. I doubt it will work but then again theres no room for doubt :D

lol exactly, bro.. and even if it doesnt work, at least itll give me something to do,.. im pretty bored and hungover.. i ended up puking loads last night, from drinkin and smokin too much, so im stayin in today and im bored shitless.. lol

same ere m8 im hungover from last nite too i woke up at 9 am to do fuck all but sit on this computer and talk to myu imaginary friends called mary and peter. there ok just got back from a holiday in bangok.

anyway...

IM STILL UP FOR STORMING SOMETHING DRESSED AS A CANNABIS LEAF.

Imagine if 1 out of 2 ppl opened a CANANBIS CAFE IN THE UK. What could the police do to about 30 millions cafes.... 30 fuckin million cafes :o ooooooooooooooooooooo

lol yeah, i was puking so i came home and got into bed, watsed, with all my clothes on and with a portion of chips, lol, fell asleep, and woke up at 9am too

:(
lol if 1 out of 2 people in the UK opened a cafe, then each cafe would only have 1 customer.. and to do that, every one in the whole of the UK would have to smoke weed.. lol awesome

lol shit i didnt think about the customer ratio.... ACTUALLY more tourists would come so the cafes would b popular lol

brb opening my cafe

Robert..lol..you make me smile, dude! :D

You're like, gee yourself up, then suppress yourself, all in the same sentence lmao

It's cool, man...:D FAF, too!

The best line, so far: "I doubt it will work but then again theres no room for doubt "
Class!

FAF?

FAF=Funny As Fuck
lmfaoo

wybmadiitywim?

lmfaooo
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Originally Posted by XTC

Sure in America the goverment is courrpt everyone knows it, but we all live so damn well who cares

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Thats the problem! We dont care about the government becasue they appease us constantly. They say everything is fine, everything looks fine unless you look closer, so why do anything? Thats what they are trying to do with all this stuff. They are not expecting us to put up a fight.

acctualy i like it illeagal,think of all the stipulations there would be where it leagal,it wouldnt be over a certain % THC,you would have to regester to grow you could only grow certain aproved types and only in certain locations,you also couldn't sell to anyone but authorized government whole sellers or authorized cafes that will be goverment run AND the price would fall makeing me earn less money when i sell it sence all u haver to do is run down to the closest cafe and buy some bud i'd be out of bussiness

live and let die
the King

FIGHT!!!! FUCK THE SYSTEM!!!

acctualy ghost(in the states anyway) when the supriem court ruled the death penalty was unconstitutional everyone on death row was canverted to life w/op paroll(sp? ive never used tht word lol)then when the supreim court rulled later that leathal injection WAS constitutional some(very few only the worst of the worst of the worst)where put back on death row,its really up to congress and the courts wether or not the law is retroactive

even if it was made legal, do you think people would stop growing it at home? Hell no!!

if it was made legal there would be less crime as ppl wud b growing there own instead of buying... eversince it was legalised in amsterdam their drug related crimes have gone down... and also the number of addicts has gone down.... http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/legal_.../amst_inf.html