Hey grasscity! My name is Ben. I've been a longtime lurker here at the City and have truly reveled in the fantastic community I see here. I love reading all about people's stories concerning cannabis and have learned A LOT about everything from growing weed in trees to bubble-hashmaking to every conceivable problem with nute-burn. This is seriously one of the most open and caring communities I've ever seen on the internet and I really do think that cannabis creates a sort of solidarity that brings people together. Anyways, enough pansy talk. Like some of you im sure, I've spent countless hours roaming the internet reading everything possible about cannabis and it's illegality. After a year and a half or so, I decided that instead of being a passive receiver of information, I wanted to produce and GET THE WORD OUT about Prohibition and how backward it is! I bought a domain with the intent of systematically breaking down Prohibition with FACTS and NUMBERS rather than the blithering anecdotes that weed is worse than cigarettes that the gov. continuously feeds us. A few examples of articles Ive been working on: How Prohibition INCREASES violence at home and abroad. A Realistic Look at Marijuana's Place in the Controlled Substances Act Why Prohibition is bad for kids Marinol (Federally recognized THC sold as prescription) Please check my website out if you have a moment! Im trying to get the word out there. Ive been handing out business cards to everyone I meet, posting articles on digg and reddit.....ive already got over 600 page views and its only been two months!! Let me know if you have any constructive critisism. Im looking to improve in every way I can. I firmly believe this is one way of many to get the ball rolling on legalization. Spread the word, spread the FACTS...not the PROPAGANDA!!! Thanks blades! Blaze everyday
You should add information on the hemp industry. And how it could solve a lot of problems with the united states today. I can be of help with this.
Thanks for the input blades So far its been a sort of "write-whatever-I-feel-like", and I certainly plan to include as many topics as possible.....problem is that there are so many reasons to repeal Prohibition and regulate that itll take months and months of writing to cover them all I certainly plan to cover industrial hemp extensively, as it is one of the primary reasons to rethink the country's drug laws. Please, let me know if you have any recommendations or constructive criticism or just ideas to write about! Also, I'm always looking for prominent studies, so if you stumble across one, hook a brother up! Keep toking GC! Its great to be here.
Add printables (flyers, pamphlets, stencils for making signs, etc.) that people could make copies of and distribute. Costs ya next to nothing and gets the word out.
I was expecting to see like a crappy freewebs with a .com domain, but the site looks great so far. The site is still young but I've bookmarked it hope that it grows.
I messed around with a few websites of my own. Nothing got off the ground though, most of them were created inside an offline program made for website construction. I got one of them a domain and a server so I had it online for a few weeks just to get the hang of running a website. I eventually took it down though. The website I made was a website for free lessons on music theory and that kind of thing. It was a cool experiment. I made no money off it, just did it to learn how to run that sort of thing. It was fun to do. Easy to maintain. The one thing I would give to you for advice is try to keep your interest in it. Try to keep yourself involved, such as writing a new article every day, or do something once a day to keep you from forgetting about it.
Add a calendar page and keep it up to date, charting rallies and legal hearings and things like that! But good work so far man, really hope you stick with it, looks really promising!
Holy cow! Thanks everyone for your comments! Some really good ideas have been brought up in this thread that I didnt even consider. • Pamphlets and flyers. Ive already got a few I'd like to upload. • A calendar of sorts, with info on hearings, rallies, committee meeting etc. • Graphics I certainly will be putting up some info on Hemp....In fact another blade PMed me who is interested in submitting an article or two on that same subject. I would totally be interested in posting any written work that people send to me on the website, so long as it is politically related and HAS CITATIONS TO VALID STUDIES, which there are a lot of on the 'tubes. Its generating more and more views per day...google analytics shows a 14,000% increase over the past month and Im working towards 1,000 pageviews already. So if a blade wants me to put up his/her work, email me at weedpolitik@gmail.com, which is also my AIM SN (include the @gmail.com) and we can hash out (pun intended) how you'd like to go about doing so. Remember, I jsut started this so youd have to deal with me bumbering around a little bit with site policies and such. Thanks for the open-armed welcome GC! I didnt expect my post here to change the way I run things, but I really think that, if any amateur author/weed activist wants to publish something, this would be a good place to do it....becuase thats exactly what Im doing. Peace out GC. Can't wait to smoke a bowl of Blue Dream I picked up last night, that shit gives me the clearest, most thoughtful high Ive ever had.