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Global Marijuana March 5/3/08 (pg. 2)
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| Shook1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000
Maybe your roomies need to find better things to do to encourage a change in lifestyle.
I smoke weed several times a week, yet maintain a great GPA, budget myself perfectly (much better than a lot of the buddies I have who don't smoke), and prioritize according to what is important to my life (read: unrelated to marijuana day-to-day bull). I'm not trying to boast, but merely showing that a substance as marijuana that is NOT inherently addictive can only become addictive if the user lets it become so.
And no, this march will not help the cause. I honestly don't give a about legalization because I smoke in the privacy of my own place anyway. |
werd! Smoke n maintain has been my motto for quite sometime. I can do it all the time and live my life the way I want to; a high-paying job, finishing up university, and not let it control me. I do realize that I will eventually have to quit but until then ....... light em up! |
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| Zharen |
| Don't know what's wrong with you pussies but I've been smoking the for 3 years now and haven't had a problem with it. I know better than to smoke it everyday and I like to toke when I'm relaxing and when most of the day's is already done. It's more rewarding that way. I have no idea if these marches actually work or not, but I made it a goal for myself to attend the one in SF this year. I hear it's more like a day festival for weed than a demonstration. Should be fun and it ought to be legalized. Just because some people can't handle it shouldn't mean the rest of us have to suffer. |
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| idoru |
First you made this thread, now you're making a thread about how much you want to show support for pot?
I hope someone close to you has enough of a brain to call CPS and have them evaluate the safety of your children and the quality of your parenting. |
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| Zharen |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
I had something to say but figure I shouldn't.
I really don't get why the stuff is illegal.
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It was illegal due to racism. Blacks and Mexicans were the first to indulge in the plant back in the late 19th and 20th century. The tobacco industry also had a lot of pull back in the days and they feared that marijuana would steal their sales away from them, so they pushed Congress to make it illegal. Harry Anslinger was instrumental in not only criminalizing it, but demonizing it as well, fabricating claims that smoking pot would turn you into a murderer and would make you go insane. And they played on the fears that blacks would be more likely to rape young white women. This is only the history of the US. I don't know why other countries have made it illegal, but I'm assuming my country's influence had something to do with it. Frankly, I'm just tired of the government perpetuating its classification as a Schedule I drug based on lies from a bygone era.
| quote: | | I just think that restricting plant growth is issue-- they are living things... real living things .. yet people aim to extinguish that life.. it just isn't right. |
+ ing one. It saddens me to see all of the pot plants get burned in a fiery heap once they are confiscated. It's not the plant's fault that people get high off its buds, and yet they are the ones that pay the ultimate sacrifice. IMO, that is what's ed up. |
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| Dr. DAS |
I went and sat on the lawn of our Provincial Legislature for the march last year. It was a great time.
I believe there were only 3 arrests, for assault or something unrelated to the green, out of thousands of people. It may not 'help the cause', but US drug laws are ing whack anyways. It's about showing support. Do you think that protesting outside the US consulate in 2003 would stop the invasion of Iraq? Of course not, but use what voice you have. The freedom of speech and freedom of assembly we enjoy are not to be squandered.
If you disagree with legalization/decriminalization, good on you.
We sat on the lawn and listened to live music, smoked, played frisbee and had a generally lawful, uneventful outing. The cops were out in force, including mounted units, but they stayed out of the park and those who did walk through kept to themselves.
It was billed as The Toronto Freedom Festival/Global Marijuana March, and it was a fantastic day.
So we're hippies...big deal. I'd rather be a hippie than a neo-con.
It's about peace, it's about freedom and those of you in the US should be particulary involved because 1/3 of all inmates were booked for posession. Don't be so negative. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| hehe, most on this board would be considered new wave hippies. Hipsters, etc. |
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| Az |
| quote: | Originally posted by CONNERMAN2000
Maybe your roomies need to find better things to do to encourage a change in lifestyle.
I smoke weed several times a week, yet maintain a great GPA, budget myself perfectly (much better than a lot of the buddies I have who don't smoke), and prioritize according to what is important to my life (read: unrelated to marijuana day-to-day bull). I'm not trying to boast, but merely showing that a substance as marijuana that is NOT inherently addictive can only become addictive if the user lets it become so.
And no, this march will not help the cause. I honestly don't give a about legalization because I smoke in the privacy of my own place anyway. |
they're all on course for firsts, their marijuana isn't affecting their studies, but when they quite literally have serious difficulties going through the day without lighting up, and become noticeably irritable when lighting up, I'd say thats a problem... |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Az
they're all on course for firsts, their marijuana isn't affecting their studies, but when they quite literally have serious difficulties going through the day without lighting up, and become noticeably irritable when lighting up, I'd say thats a problem... |
That is the truth. I'm not a psychologist, so I can't really suggest what you do to help somebody out of an addiction, be it mental or physical. Usually if you keep yourself busy with work, playing sports, or doing other physical activities that smoking would hinder, then it would probably successfully help pull someone away from whatever substance they have a problem with. |
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| Mommy420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
First you made this thread, now you're making a thread about how much you want to show support for pot?
I hope someone close to you has enough of a brain to call CPS and have them evaluate the safety of your children and the quality of your parenting. |
I wasnt going to respond to this but I am. I show my support for pot and I DONT SMOKE. So FU. And secondly I dont have to explain a dam thing to you. I am a great mom. Have been clean for over 20 years. Just cause I support some things makes me a bad person? You dont know me at all. Pot should be legal by now. I grew up in the 70's and never thought by now that it would still be illegal. Booze ruins more families than pot ever will. The thread I wrote about the glow stix was true. So that makes me a bad mom cause my kid was playing with glow stix? And it broke? Not to mention glow stix are legal. You have some issues. I asked a question. And what a better place to ask than people on this board. They are helpful. Cant wait till your a paranoid parent. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
marching doesn't solve anything
terrorism does |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mommy420
I wasnt going to respond to this but I am. I show my support for pot and I DONT SMOKE. So FU. And secondly I dont have to explain a dam thing to you. I am a great mom. Have been clean for over 20 years. Just cause I support some things makes me a bad person? You dont know me at all. Pot should be legal by now. I grew up in the 70's and never thought by now that it would still be illegal. Booze ruins more families than pot ever will. The thread I wrote about the glow stix was true. So that makes me a bad mom cause my kid was playing with glow stix? And it broke? Not to mention glow stix are legal. You have some issues. I asked a question. And what a better place to ask than people on this board. They are helpful. Cant wait till your a paranoid parent. |
single with a kid eh? call me:gsmile: |
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