stinkyattic, you're right. I'm actually having a lot of arguments with people I know who don't want to vote because they feel it's useless.
But also, how do you think governments are going to legalize hemp, if it is not something we fight for?
You know, here in Italy we have the church, mafia, american strategic interests (look how many NATO bases we have, and recently they just enlarged one, in Vicenza, without even considering citizens requests, which where: we don't want it). The list isn't finished, we also have one man owning more than half of the media power. So, basically, it is not going to happen. They won't legalize it. USA started hemp proibition and, so far, the italian political class has always been more than happy to accomplish Americans' will. Mafia owns the drug market, and has a few men working for itself in the government (see Berlusconi's allegations, but not only those, it is a fifty years long story, actually longer).
Church has lost its power, but takes a lot of money from "rehabs", and has always been against any individual choice.
Media never talk about hemp, unless it is to say it leads to heroin; a few months ago, they even said the story of hemp, even if in just 30 seconds, and you know how the service ended? They said it makes people become schizophrenic and leads to heroin.
So, how do you actually think that who's in charge for us will ever consider legalizing hemp, if not by making it visible? It must be a process that starts from us.
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