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01-10-2008, 07:27 AM #1OPSenior Member
Use Your Head!
Throughout my day I browse these threads occasionally commenting here or there, but I am sick of reading the same old posts over and over about how the outcome of this presidential election could lead to the overall legalization of MJ, there is no chance that any president elect would even consider legalizing MJ. Do you realize how much money is involved?????? Millions upon millions of dollars are spent every fiscal year by large pharmaceutical companies to keep things such as MJ illegal. Why on Earth would they want any average person to be able to grow their own medicine? Aside from that there is a billion dollar a year pre-employment drug testing industry that would be virtually wiped out if MJ was legal, that along with state and federal revenues extracted from enforcing so called drug enforcement laws and penalties are extremely profitable. To make it completely clear..... we have ultimately become a victim of our past........Dating back to the original MJ laws directly aimed at the Mexican immigrant population in the southwest in the early 1900's. In a perfect world we would be able to look back at our decisions that were purely based on racism and a suppression of an entire peoples culture and say "Hey that was BS" But I am sorry to say our world is far from perfect.............All anyone can do is keep on keepin on... and try to leave the world a better place than when you found it....... :stoned:
***Wow, talk about a stoned rant...:stoned:ldg420 Reviewed by ldg420 on . Use Your Head! Throughout my day I browse these threads occasionally commenting here or there, but I am sick of reading the same old posts over and over about how the outcome of this presidential election could lead to the overall legalization of MJ, there is no chance that any president elect would even consider legalizing MJ. Do you realize how much money is involved?????? Millions upon millions of dollars are spent every fiscal year by large pharmaceutical companies to keep things such as MJ illegal. Rating: 5[align=center]R.I.P.[/align]
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01-10-2008, 05:47 PM #2Senior Member
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Originally Posted by ldg420
If the U.S. lost millions of dollars, making cannabis legal, they'd have to look somewhere else for that money. Maybe, they could do some good in another aspect of society.
Like full-fledged methamphetamine policing. Or, trading food for labor.
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01-10-2008, 06:07 PM #3Senior Member
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Originally Posted by ldg420
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01-10-2008, 07:11 PM #4Senior Member
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I don't really believe that the illegal status of Marijuana has much to do with drug companies or any other kinds of big corporations protecting their profits. I think it has more to do with the fear of many people that legalizing weed would make us all into potheads, and our society would fall apart because no one would ever get anything done. Or maybe they are not worried about society as a whole, but just worried that their own kid would become a pot-smoking drop-out loser, smoking blunts, eating Dorritos, and playing video games in their bedroom and never move out of the house.
Whatever the fear is, many people who have no corporate profits at stake see weed as a detriment to society and do not want to see it legal. So because of that, there are very few politicians who are going to be intereted in spending much of their political capital on fighting the fight for legalizing weed. There's a lot to lose by taking on that battle, and from a politician's point of view, there is not a lot to gain.
Probably the best you can hope for is to have politicians decide that the money they are wasting on the bogus War on Drugs is money they would like to spend elsewhere. All politicians have their own priorities, and maybe if some other prioritiy becomes more important than hunting down people in the pot trade, then maybe something will change.More of the same: Renger\'s Rantings
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01-10-2008, 07:19 PM #5Senior Member
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Originally Posted by dragonrider
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01-10-2008, 07:32 PM #6Senior Member
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Originally Posted by epxroot
More of the same: Renger\'s Rantings
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01-10-2008, 08:21 PM #7Senior Member
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Originally Posted by dragonrider
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01-10-2008, 08:50 PM #8Senior Member
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Most voting-Americans were born before cannabinoid receptors were discovered. Human beings are more tainted than other mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. They have them, yet, you don't see the Great White Shark outlawing sea-reefer.
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01-10-2008, 08:54 PM #9Senior Member
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Great White Sharks get most of their cannabinoids by devouring THC-saturated surfers.
More of the same: Renger\'s Rantings
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01-15-2008, 05:48 PM #10Senior Member
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i been fighting for decimilizing buds since the mid 80s. if anyone else rememers what the fight was like back then it almost seemed like an unwinnable battle. and it has been an uphill struggle. back then we were ALL burn out stoners. no respectable person would beleive that mj was good for people or had any worth at all. fast foward 20 years and now many of these same people have been convinced that they were misinformed and have voted for decrimalizing. we have gained much ground 20 years ago there were NO states that had mmj laws now we have 12. then almost all states you would get thrown any jail for small possesion now most states just slap your wrist. we have come a long way but the fight is far from over. we can not give up. as time changes so will the laws.
wich brings me to my next point. voting for a pro-legalization pres. is not the only answer. ron paul sounds good in his anti drug war retorict but with out the congress he will not acheive it. the pres does not make or change laws.so just voting for pres is almost wasting your time, you have to vote in every election. that means local elections all the way to fed elections. you have to get the people that have the same veiws as yourself in ALL the offices. even run for public office yourself. anyone can run for office even if it is nothing more than city council. and if you do win then your voice will be heard that much louder. and starting localy does work. i can give you a couple examples of me as one person changing things in my home town. one was a housing project i got the city council to vote down another was a school issue. these i started protesting and putting out info that made changes where i lived and i started almost single handed.
if your interested the housing thing was to sell off public land that would be annexed to build houses on that would start at approx 250k rather than build within the city. the other was a teacher pay raise, my home town at that time would hire teachers with no less than 10 yaers experience and their starting salary was no less than 60k a year. the point was why should a teacher make twice the salary of what is average. there was also a bussing issue along wih it. now dont get me wrong im not against paying teachers a livable salery but when the rest of the people make between 25-35k year .....
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