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I appreciate the lawyer's statements (as I am around the same age and family situation 'cept Iwork for the 'man') but try to attack this issue from a different standpoint.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...... Every revolution needs it's squeaky clean mouthpieces (the lawyer), it's ground troops (NORML and the like), and it's covert CIA black Ops types (the rest of us). The groups can work in close concert with each other working as a well organized movement (like our government, well maybe forget the organized part) or somewhat individually conducting their business based on their own strategies but all focused on the same or similar goal.
As I see it, the mouthpieces and ground troops are doing the best they can. They just need greater numbers. That will come with time and with each little bit of headway they make. However, I see the greatest potential for a grassroots movement in the covert marijuana supporters. I include myself in that group.
The covert are the people who freely share their stuff at a party. They are the people who grow in a far off field, attic, basement, garden, or closet. They are the people who support reform from the shadows and spread the Word quietly and slowly through trusted friends or aquaintences (probably spelled that wrong). They are the largest number of supporters and are the people that can make the biggest impact on the fight for freedom. They are also the most scared of falling prey to the draconian drug laws of this great country. We need to join the other two groups or we need to get more active.
The covert need to emulate the civil disobedience of the Boston Tea Party that is so revered an event that it is in every grade school U.S. history book. We need to revolt in a non-violent fashion that shows our support of our brothers and sisters that are willing to risk putting their faces out there.
What I suggest is taking some of those bag seeds we all have been hoarding and planting them on public grounds. Don't tend them or visit them. Just plant them in a somewhat visisble place and leave them. Leave them as a statement that you support legalization. Leave them as a sign that you support personal freedom. Leave them as a gift for a brother or sister that stumbles across them in the future. If enough of us do this we can make a difference.
I understand that there may be some backlash from the authorities (the Tea Party did eventually result in war). But this could also be the act that forces the powers that be to look at this issue with an objective eye and listen to their constituents.
Give it some thought.
Join the Cause. Plant a seed. Spread the Word.
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