will it ever be decriminalized?

[trueblu8]

Wow that's pretty unbelievable Storm Crow, thanks for the insight. And yes I agree, things ARE changing, slowly, but surely.

[Smokeybears]

yea. I just hope I live to see it, I know I wont though.

Maybe my grandkids someday hahah

What do you all think about a straightforward approach, like door to door surveys to start out? Sounds stupid but its a start

[flyingimam]

What do you all think about a straightforward approach, like door to door surveys to start out? Sounds stupid but its a start

half of the public is ill informed
and many of these very same people posses firearms!

i think best way is to work through media and mainstream outlets, i sometimes wonder, they keep sayin media is liberal n stuff, how come no major national media firm actively supports legalization or decriminalization... i mean, find one major talk show thats devoted to this and we may have a chance to lobby the public.

sure, in this regard, some steps have been taken so far and things have been said, but as u can guess educating a misinformed nation requires subliminal propaganda style of informing!

[yiGity]

no way just look how fucked up the feds are.. we cant even have our own laws without having them intervene,but at the same time a lot of illegal shit is going down at the same time... i can definately see legalization will come in the next 10 to 20 years as the younger generations get into office and more research is done on cannabis itself... only time will tell

[geoluv]

even though its just 12 states they include california, which is fucking huge, so huge that they grow more bud than all of canada.

its only 1/4 of the states but im willing to bet that its more than 1/3 the population.

plus we are talking about decrim? its already decrimmed in my state; new york. in ny its only a 100 dollar disorderly persons offence. they cannot detain you unless you were smoking it in public, and even then the most they can do is keep you for a few hours.

this effectivly makes speeding in excess of 10 miles over the speed limit a worse offence.

in practice unless you are walking around with a pound in your backpack or you REALLY mouth off to the cops they dont even ticket you or take your weed. i know people who got pulled over litterly while in the middle of smoking a blunt and the cops didnt even take their weed. that was in brooklyn though, i guess i should specify that i live in nyc where the cops dont even bother with weed. the high times office is within walking distance of my apartment.

even the most conservative estimates say it will be full blown legal in 25 years. think about it, 25 years ago they would toss you in jail in a heartbeat and possesion was a felony. nowadays even the most conservative states arent going to toss you in jail for a joint, theyll just arrest you and make you pay a huge fine (the real reason its not legal, its like a cash machine for local governments).

if the next presidential term doesnt end the federal interfierence with medical marijuana, then at the very least when more than half of the states get medical marijuana the feds will basicly HAVE to give up, when its obvious that the majority of US citizens want medical bud. it all hinges on lowering it to schedual II, where it becomes perscribable. remember that in california doctors only "recomend" that you use marijuana. if doctors were free to perscribe marijuana then wed have medical marijuana the entire country over instantly.

it all hinges on this election... if barak wins i could definatly see him quietly ending federal interfierence with medical marijuana , that will be like opening the flood gates. states will pass medical measures left and right. and thats if he doesnt reschedual it alltogether, i fear reschedualing wont happen untill more than half the states pass medical measures. pharm companies are going to fight the reschedualing TOOTH AND NAIL.

if mccain wins we are fucked, itll just be more of the same, although he might die and palin is from the only state in the country where weed is sorta legal, regaurdless of medical use. of course shes also a fundamental christian who is dumb as a stump.

i estimate well have medical marijuana in every state in 15 years and full blown legalization in 25.

[flyingimam]

man, i must admit, so far I am surprised with the amount of optimism and what people say on this topic... makes me even more hopeful than b4

Once I took economics class in college and my professor who was a very smart guy, said "Recession, is technically defined as 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth in GDP & economy, BUT, people keep worrying about it when it's not there yet and that could just help it happen"

this is kinda the karma and collective energy that people spread around

so i guess the positive side of it should work as well, the more people are optimist about it the more the "general mood" will be towards the target!

[Immolation]

MJ will be decriminalized one day.Just not soon enough for Most of us.:hippy:

[flyingimam]

Hi again guys, long ass time no see. i've been very busy with uni and life, but now i got my recess and have a lil time... how's everybody doin?

[bump] an update and some new votes on this will be great insight after much apparent change in more than 6 months.

we got a couple of more states now who have either decriminalized or medicinalized cannabis!:jointsmile: and a number of other potential victories are pending... bills in various states and even in the federal govt.

i personally have changed my forecast that by around 2012 (give/take 1yr) federal ban on marijuana for personal consumption will either go unenforced or rarely enforced (as more states oppose it, it becomes costlier for feds to continue, politically and financially) or it will be reduced or lifted thru congress.

I must say on the election night, the strong dual victories we gained made me much more optimistic about the situation...:rastasmoke:smoke on...