The OFFICIAL WAY to LEGALIZE MARIJUANA - Obama's Change.gov

[bkadoctaj]

Excellent work you guys!! PM your buddies on the forum!!

[stonerish]

i voted for every question lol... 256.. now for the refresh

[Spliffin Bowls]

rofl this is great. someone in kentucky wants to give potheads mandatory death sentences.

[Prisoner#1]

Originally Posted by Spliffin Bowls

http://change.gov/page/content/openf...17_private_url

thats my question, appreciate the votes.

"Without a one line stock answer, why won't President Elect Obama, just as Roosevelt had done with Beer in the 1930s, legalize, tax, and regulate the use of Cannabis among responsible adults while creating thousands of jobs to stimulate our economy?"

well stated question... I think it may be time for a lot of cooperative work, the
shroomery has been pushing this since the first day the forum opened on change.gov, we
also have a question up for vote, keep in mind that originally the question we all pushed
to #1 left little room for explanation, this one and ours prods obama staffers for one, if
you dont read the whole thread, please read the first post, make use of the search terms
and encourage others not to vote for the 300+ quistions that will allow such a simplistic
answer the next time

since this thread is still a sticky, I figured this would be a great place to post it

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/show...gonew/1#UNREAD


thanks everyone for all the help you guys give in pushing for reform, it's time we made ourselves heard


Prisoner#1

[Prisoner#1]

Originally Posted by stonerish

i voted for every question lol... 256.. now for the refresh

many arent even questions, more like statements of disgust or allow for a simply yes/no
type of answer, if those hit the top spot then we get the same response as the last time

[Reinstate Mary]

its one thing thats got obama trippin, and thats CONTRVERSY, and its related to the "IMAGE" of people who smoke weed, I feel that obama would rather keep everything on an even keel rather then accepting that fact that a large ever growing community of pot smokers is going to eventually tip the scale, so what we must do as a community is show obamas administration that we are not just , as one said in rebuttal, a frenzied band of smokers trying to strong arm the legalization of marijuana, becuase that fact is that the pervious governments that implemented legislation, and sought out there political campaign's, on the foundation of "war on Drugs", have been some of THE MOST CONTROLING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, (i mean you think your mother is controling, who gave you mother the education that she received, um, the governtment (dont let me sound crazy, people break the cycle), it all starts in school, but thats a whole other "container ship of worms") and in a sence they brain washed entir generations into believing that there word is that of biblical comparity, what with the wars they stared, the one on drugs being one, and i mean it has it place what with the hard drugs, but if they we legal and people we Educated and i mean really educated on them i dont think they would be half the problem that they are viewed as rite now( shit im ranting), so we must deal with that problem first < image, and maby we could really get someting going and change that meaning the of meaning of image, because its used as a tool in the stragidy of their "war on drugs" shud be A.k.A. "war full of lies"( fukkin rant shit)

Shit so take away the Imagery and what that means to Obamas out look on the legalization of marijuana

I need some sleep ill be less ranty.......

[Prisoner#1]

Originally Posted by Reinstate Mary

Shit so take away the Imagery and what that means to Obamas out look on the legalization of marijuana

that imagery is gone, take a a look at LEAP, cops for the legalization/decriminalization of
marijuana, more than half the law enforcement officers in this nation support the same
causes we do, they know that these laws are pointless and that with the vast majority of
drugs there's little or no harm with responsible use, do not be surprised to learn that Doctors,
Lawyers, Judges and even your Elected Representatives are at the least, casual smokers

many of these people are from the generation that was intent on changing the world, now it's
time to tell them to help their children and their grandchildren make those same changes,
make your voice heard, not just in these forums but on the street and by all means in the
office of your elected reps, dont settle for a quick letter, fire off an email, a phone call and
go pay him a visit, it's harder to say no when you have a thousand of your closest friends on
his front stoop along with the media coverage a large crowd always brings


we shall no longer take no for an answer!

[Reinstate Mary]

You are absolutly %100 correct, It's the outrage that we are reallly lookin for.

But I must stress that politicaly obamas hands are misconstrue, but he is doing what he must to hold a position viable for change.

In addition to what you said about the generation of change, they were that for the reason of their curb in education, and the view of the world through the eyes of the media inseted of the eyes of the government corrupted school books, yellow jornulizm in papers and the propagana campaines that were ran many a time by many a party, but their parents(many by this time grandparents) were not free of those burdens and that is the same reason why my dad maybe for it, but my grandparents would be against it. we now live in a compleaty diffrent wave of education then 30 years ago, what with the internet and what not, so we are exposed to so much more we tend not to take every thing at face value and actually question shit, like, what the fuck is our government getting us into this time? when b4 it was, Who do we get to fight this time? you wit me??(smoke break)

And in short, image is still the issue, I know of LEAP, and i hear about firefighters getting caught up in all types of drug shit, i mean i'd go out on a limb and say that every profession at some point or a nother has experienced an operator who was under the influence( i dont like that term to much that neeeds a change too) of a drug, But that isnt enugh to bring to the table alone, for their are some very controling, skepitacl, and influencal people who would like to keep the legality the same, lobbyists if you will.

But it is the MARCH that we are missing, the CIVIL RIGHTs MArches of the 60's and 70's go shit the fuck done, just chek the prez to be, So we could follow by example, like the generations that you sopke of would have loved to do, but to no fault of their own, amny have found that they can smoke it in peace now, and if they try to speak up they could risk losein what they have fought for, that being their life, family, love, all that good stuff get put on the line when one wants to go for such a change of governmental policy.

Epifinay... HOW CAN WE FIGHT WITHOUT CASULITYS
is this ^ the problem,
is it that we need not fight for our right, but that we should revloutionize the way that civil rights are attaied??

IDK, but everything that has happend since mary got locked up, has been a stepping stone to walk of
her freedom........we gotta be some fukkin masons

i forgot, but reviwed and relized that you are starting to open that "container ship of worms"

[bkadoctaj]

The highest question (no pun intended) dealing with weed is "The people of this country want marijuana decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized? Why continue to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows that the war on drugs is, as you said, "an utter failure"?" It's currently number 13. We need to have more votes guys!

[amsterdamage]

Originally Posted by bkadoctaj

The highest question (no pun intended) dealing with weed is "The people of this country want marijuana decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized? Why continue to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows that the war on drugs is, as you said, "an utter failure"?" It's currently number 13. We need to have more votes guys!

you're right we need more votes, but the highest question is in #2 place not #13.

The marijuana questions are in "National Security" and "Additional Issues", and in both of those places the highest marijuana question is in second place.

In NS it's "Our current war on drugs is failing America. Billions of dollars are spent on a losing campaign. Our prisons are overflowing with people that don't deserve to be there. What is the government going to do in an effort to fix this major problem?"

And in AI it's "The people of this country want marijuana decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized? Why continue to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows that the war on drugs is, as you said, "an utter failure"?"

We only need a couple of hundred more votes in each question to make them #1. Has anyone not voted yet?? http://change.gov/page/content/openf...17_private_url

edit:
and the highest marijuana question overall appears to be in about 26th place, "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it and create millions of new jobs." Fifteen million people smoke marijuana in the US, why isn't everyone voting???

[bkadoctaj]

Originally Posted by amsterdamage

you're right we need more votes, but the highest question is in #2 place not #13.

The marijuana questions are in "National Security" and "Additional Issues", and in both of those places the highest marijuana question is in second place.

In NS it's "Our current war on drugs is failing America. Billions of dollars are spent on a losing campaign. Our prisons are overflowing with people that don't deserve to be there. What is the government going to do in an effort to fix this major problem?"

And in AI it's "The people of this country want marijuana decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized? Why continue to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows that the war on drugs is, as you said, "an utter failure"?"

We only need a couple of hundred more votes in each question to make them #1. Has anyone not voted yet?? http://change.gov/page/content/openf...17_private_url

edit:
and the highest marijuana question overall appears to be in about 26th place, "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it and create millions of new jobs." Fifteen million people smoke marijuana in the US, why isn't everyone voting???

I know but I'm counting the votes in total, not by category. I believe that's what happened last time... or were there not categories?

[agent0064life]

Round two couldn't have happened at a worse time... most of the younger crowd right now is caring about and only about their new year's party...

[worknplay]

Voted. Passing the word around as well. We're close guys.

Also, how are you guys seeing how many votes there are? I'm not seeing anything.

[Prisoner#1]

Originally Posted by Reinstate Mary

But it is the MARCH that we are missing, the CIVIL RIGHTs MArches of the 60's and 70's go shit the fuck done

it is the marches we're missing, we need to encourage everyone to march on the home office
of their elected representatives, writing is great if you're unable to take the time to get down
there but as we all know, it's just like court, personal appearances are what count the most


lets all follow the advice that obama gave in the campaign

"get in their faces"

[marvingardens]

Why is he re-nigging, Obama is such a re-******.