An excerpt everyone should read

[Rusty Trichome]

Why would you remind anyone they are breaking rules? Why not let the rules be interpreted by those whose job it is and leave it at that?

Too funny. You believe that just because this is an activist forum, the rules do not apply to you? Just another "the rules don't apply to me" child. Frankly...I can see you pouting from here.

...This is the activism forum...

Activism: the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests, etc.
Gee. I don't see in the definition of activism anywhere that says while an activist is in a medical cannabis forum, those activists are required to destroy faith, values and hope, in a vain attempt to do what...?

You kids never look at the other side of the proverbial coin. I'm an activist pushing personal responsibility, values, hope and love. I use god to find the strength every day. You use hate. My daily life is supplimented with others that have values, hope and faith. You have...<ahem> yourself.

This position on not objecting to someone because they are breaking a rule, or perhaps trespassing on some sacred taboo is obvious. It allows you to avoid trying to discredit valid statements.

The only valid statements, are those that have responded to your crap, yet you haven't addressed any of those replies...you just chose to keep ranting and trying to switch the focus back on me. You've made the statements, now You back 'em up. I'll be waiting with bated breath.

A large portion of my argument is directed at medical patients.

Which medical patients...? Because I have been battling Hep-C (type 1A) for about thirty years now, and my wife goes to chemo every two weeks, and will continue to do so till her t-cell lymphoma takes her life, so I'd back off thinking we all think the same crap as you. Not all of us are coming here to see an asshole tell us our faith is garbage, our hope is vain and our beliefs are all fucked-up. However, from where I sit, you are the one in the minority.
Thank you to those that have offered their support in this...your words are too kind.

I agree with previous posters who recognize the reality, and that is the absurdity of cannabis being criminalized. We shouldn't be indifferent towards absurdity, it has a bad habit of allowing for lots of human suffering, something we want to avoid.

And whom has posted anything different? Just because I disagree with your lack of faith, does not mean at all that anybody here feels any differently with regards to decriminalization or legalization. Your idea that I have to agree with your values is laughable.

Unless you're religious, and think you're a sinner,

Tell me more about your knowledge of religion. Christianity and Mormonism, in particular. Tell me exactly how all christians and mormons feel.

The unfortunate fact is cancer patients, as long as regular tax-paying citizens, the healthy and the sick, are suffering to some degree primarily because of religious prudishness which makes it incredibly difficult to work an already broken political system. Everything I write has to do with cannabis, it certainly has to do with medical cannabis, I mention this several times.

So now you know all cancer patients and all religious people in here don't know what they believe, but you have the answers for us...? You're pretty fucking narcissistic, aren't you. (narcissitic - erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.)

Do you have -any- concrete argument? I'm very open to discussion. My purpose isn't to be provocative or even insult anyone here. I have some viewpoints that I'd like to criticize which pertain to Cannabis and Activism. I'm waiting for you to make a claim actually backed up by evidence, or would you like me to take your hearty disagreement with me on faith?

Claims...I make no claims, and I avoid using the lazy and ineffective method of cut-n-paste to form my opinions. I can speak for myself, and if I do need proof, you can be damn sure I can find proof. Mostly I speak from decades more experience than you. But unlike you, I don't hate all that feel differently than I.

Why is it that the "activists" are young punks without a clue of how to project their views in a concise and intelligent manner? Why is this like battling an unarmed opponent? Hmmm...likely because I was there thirty-something years ago, and learned then, the difference between bullshit and honest discourse. IMHO, Behind the hate, you are full of bullshit.