Ghandi and Weed

Hey everyone we started talking about Ghandi is theology class. I learned his philosophy and all the great things he did. It started to get me thinking. So i got this crazy Idea to get MILLIONS of people...holding hands in this HUGEEEE circle and lighting up huge dubbies and watching the smoke rise up getting ready for marijuana legalization.

Anyway, it prolly wouldn't work...

peace,
toph

To the best of my knowledge, Ghandi never encouraged or condoned people using chemicals to alter/dampen their states of conciousness?

In fact, its safe to say he is baffled that independant civilians are actually requesting that government step in and become involved in Weed!?

Do you know what will be different after weed is legalised?

Absolutely nothing except that government will regulate and profit from weed.
(which will quadruple in price like it did in Amsterdam)

Meanwhile, while everyone was .....LOL.... 'fighting' for the right to smoke government taxed weed (LOL!) and feels they have 'done something' - the governments have been happily taking more and more control over YOUR life, over international corporations and giving themselves more perks and glory.

Wow.

Im sure Ghandi is simply spinning in the Ghanges somewhere!

at least when it's legal, they won't beat you with billy clubs for being high. And i think the huge circle thing could work, maybe. Ever heard of a black bloc? it could be like that!

somewere in the bible it says jesus gave somebody some medcine which was basicly weed to somebody, which was used alot then ^_^ it must be the drug of the lord.

Originally Posted by bertrose

Hey everyone we started talking about Ghandi is theology class. I learned his philosophy and all the great things he did. It started to get me thinking. So i got this crazy Idea to get MILLIONS of people...holding hands in this HUGEEEE circle and lighting up huge dubbies and watching the smoke rise up getting ready for marijuana legalization.

Anyway, it prolly wouldn't work...

peace,
toph

Yes...i'd like to call that "the fall of modern society"... or "back to zero".... all ya'll hippies would be so happy to go back to seed agriculture....

I know Ghandi didn't do anything with any substance that alters the mind and that jazz. Im saying Ghandi was a GREAT man, the messiah of India where he delivered his country freedom from the British with no guns or swords and not one violent attack...

All i was thinking was that if millions of people believe that weed is not bad and is actually good, including myself, then a million of people can get high together fighting for what we believe in just as ghandi did.

How are they going to arrest millions of people at one time??

Originally Posted by Graham

somewere in the bible it says jesus gave somebody some medcine which was basicly weed to somebody, which was used alot then ^_^ it must be the drug of the lord.

No sorry, that didnt happen.

Someone did mercifully try to give Jesus some painkilling vinegar wine type of drug when he was on the cross.
He turned it down.

I guess he felt that world peace and victory over injustice was more sincere when not hazed with mind altering chemicals.

(p.s. Ghandi was from South Africa I believe. ALthough Indian by ethnicity)

If u think about it, everything we do or ingest: food, drink, medicine; they are all mind altering chemicals...

I never heard the it was a drug they gave to Jesus on the Cross...i thought it was just wine...on a sponge...

We will never know for certain but a lot of historians believe it was a certain kind of vinegar and gall wine beverage, which Romans soldiers had been known to use as a pain-killing drug.

As for Weed being no different than foods.. well, ok.

Really by this logic nothing means anything and there is no reason to even create words or descriptions of anything.

In the common sense world, nothing you would ever eat from nature would blast your brain with a massive dose of THC like smoking a Doobie can.

Im all for you doing that, but please, dont confuse it to being something indistinct from spirituality or social justice.

And lets face it - the vast majority of weed smokers are doing it to avoid pain, stress and reality. Escapism.
Also according to my old roommate "It totally makes the Playstation fucking hilarious".

alcohol is socially acceptable in diplomatic communities, why isn't weed?