Quote Originally Posted by yokinazu
we are closer than ever. im an lod stoner first toke was in the mid seventys, and the attitude of the people has gone almost 180. and the bud is much better.

but the money generated from prohibition is goin to be our biggest hurdle. when we look at who and why it was made illegal in the first place and then look at who making the money off of prohibition you will see a very stong enemy to decrimalization. the biggest part off making it illegal in the first place came frome dupont and dow chemicals. by pressuring the govt to tax to the point of it being unprofitable to grow hemp it remove a source of natural material that could be use to provide everything from oil paper. wich they wanted to produce synteticaly. thats just the chemical industry. dont forget the logging and oil industrys.

now a days we also have one other industry wich is quite sad but its the prison industry. im mean the privatly owned prisons that receive millions of dollars a year of our tax money to house crimanals.

so you see with that much money behind them they have the means to buy our politicians to see that they get their way. legalization is not an impossible task but the hardest part is yet to come i fear.
that really sums it up well, I think. I think this thread is great in that it is focused on the media. It is a war for the hearts and minds in the media and we must stay focused on it but I think Yoki really nails it.

Our oppenents will fight to the end to protect their way of living and we should expect no less. This battle has nothing to do with cannabis really. We all know there is no logical reason for its prohibition. The only logical reason is the vast sums of money being made by prohibition.

That said, I agree. I think we are winning. A vote for herby is a vote against the crooked system we have now.