www.AboveTheInfluence.com? HELL NO! More like...

[Sibling]

Just a suggestion but look up some videos of the Stoned Assasins playing Paintball... its a pro paintball team that the lead singer from Cypress Hill plays on... they are always high when they play (I am too )

[Saulg1991]

Try Penn & Teller's War on Drugs episode, probaly most convincing.

[Scapris]

Originally Posted by Widowmaker

You could also have another page that allows people to get involved with the situation in an effort to change their state current marijuana laws. Like congressmen they should appeal to, politicians in the '08 election that are against the drug war, and anything else along those lines. And have a Links page with stuff like norml.org, etc.

Another idea would be to take "facts" from the Above the Influence site, and disprove them using evidence taken from clinical studies and other sources of information. This won't be too hard, since all the stuff they put on their site grossly exaggerates the truth or is a complete fabrication altogether. I think this is where you could win the most people over that are on the fence about the issue.

And one guy suggested to not bash on the media even if they are ridiculous, but to use facts supporting your opinions to why their reasoning is illogical and try to sound as professional as possible.

The last thing was content to put on your site, it is a documentary called In Pot We Trust. Just saw it like an hour ago and it gives people on both sides of the issue a chance to talk, but the cannabis supporters make a much more convincing case than the guys against it IMO. It airs again on the 11th if u have showtime.

http://www.sho.com/site/announcements/20070611inpot.do

I was hoping it would be on Youtube so you could put it on your site, but keep an eye out for it cuz its new.

Great ideas, I'll get on some when I get home from work today

-Mark

[aus*smoker]

Scapris i fing love u man all the people at school think stonners are stupid slow people and sterotype me as that and no not school as in highschool as in tafe and other australians will know what it is its like college but yea i get stero typed so much im not overweight im not dumb im not slow (maybe a bit) but i hate it defintly +reps ill be showing this to all my stonner friends

[chronicking302]

This is awesome, +rep

[ny_chow]

maybe u can make a list of succesful people who do smoke pot...

if this thing really takes off, celebrity endorsements?

[ny_chow]

oh and u could start a petition on the website too...

if nothing else more research has to be done on pot

[growcdxx]

This is such an excellent idea. Although I do like the idea of "abovetheignorance" better, because it just sounds more intelligent, although not as bold as "bullshit". Also the fact that, it would be harder to advertise the website because of the word "shit" (they'd beep/blur it out on TV and radio). I don't know, just something to consider.

Anyway, I think you should have a cartoons/commercial section. One of the reasons the website is so popular is because of their cartoons and commercials. So why don't WE make some of our own? A friend of mine, who runs www.whatthefawk.com, made a cartoon called "Weed Harmless 3" (go watch it!), which does a very good job of both providing facts about weed, and also being entertaining at the same time. I bet you I could talk him into letting you use his animation on your website. He is however working on a website www.weedharmless.com, but I have a feeling he'll never actually get it finished. He's really lazy.

I've also found one or two good parody videos on youtube of the anti-drug commercials. Maybe we could contact the authors of those, and see if they would allow us to use their content as well?

I myself am in the process of making an animation parodying one of the anti-drug ads (the one with the stoner and his dog). I'd be more than happy to represent your website with it, or list your website as the "sponsor". I'm very good with flash animation (and some programming as well), and I'd be more than happy to help design some of your website in flash (make parts of it "interactive"), or even make a fancy intro animation, parodying the one on above the influence. Please PM me if you're interested! I'm going to get to work on finishing my parody cartoon...

Oh, and is the email address abovetheinfluence@yahoo.com supposed to be abovethebullshit@yahoo.com? That would make more sense. Or maybe comments@abovethebullshit.com if you have email accounts with your domain purchase. I would also recommend using www.gmail.com instead of www.yahoo.com. You'll have alot more disk space (over 2 gigs).

Either way, +rep for taking action!

Oh yeah, one other thing. The site can not come off as TOO biased. That's exactly the reason that high times is never viewed as a credible source at all. Same goes for abovetheinfluence. Their site is so biased, you just can't take them seriously. We need to be fair and balanced.

[NC_Blueberry]

I just saw another one of their bullshit commercials today and i'm glad someone is finally stepping up. Thank you for doing this, hopefully we can convince the world about the joys of marijuana.

[syntax13]

Some good content you could add is a couple articles about how it fights/slows alzheimers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4286435.stm

There are a couple other good articles on that also, but I don't have time to go find em right now. But later ill add em as well as some other articles.

[guitarhero811]

really good shit. keep us updated

EDIT

i love alcohol, but id give up a lot of shit for weed to be legal and alcohol to illegal again. it just doesnt make any sense at all. what positive effect has alcohol ever had on the human body?

[Scapris]

Originally Posted by guitarhero811

really good shit. keep us updated

EDIT

i love alcohol, but id give up a lot of shit for weed to be legal and alcohol to illegal again. it just doesnt make any sense at all. what positive effect has alcohol ever had on the human body?

Our country was founded on the sale of tobacco and alcohol, it would destroy our govt. if they were illegal :\

-Mark

[quasimoto]

Great idea. I have a suggestion of citing your information with links to other websites backing up your facts about marijuana. Good luck with the site man, I'd be happy to help you think of improvements you can make to the site once it's put up.

[Lil Loko]

Originally Posted by Mike.

it should be something doing with the tobacco companies that pay for those anti-smoking campaign things.

such as
"Above The Ignorance"
"Above The Lies"
If you get what I mean..

I'm feelin' the "Above The Ignorance". Plus it gives a good overall ring to it, Above The Influence... Above The Ignorance... Above The Bullshit, like someone else said, may cause people to overlook the site.

[mY NaME is bOb]

This is a great idea. +rep for stepping up and doing something to show people what weed is really like.