Is anything really being done to decriminalize marijuana, or are all real* attempts being shot down before they can even start? * - Real as in not some longhaired stoner going to school with a joint in his mouth saying "legalize weed, its good for you"!! I mean serious groups that know what they're doing.
Theres plenty of REAL groups out there that are fighting for our right to be able to smoke a harmless herb..... NORML is the big one... and then theres the Green Party.... i and many others write to our local congressmen to show them our views on this subject...in hopes of one day decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana... we're fight for your freedoms.... what are you doing to help?
there was one but i dont remember the name, its on my comp at home. it had some really neat stuff on the site.
Yea, yesterday i was wondering if there was anyone doing something. Iknew someone had to be doing something, but it needs to be on a higher scale.
a member here named templedragon(real cool dude) is part of the group who organizes one of the biggest hemp festivals every year in oregon or washington, forget the number but a looooot of people get together and celebrate with some good music and good bud probably....
Depresing to see thar decriminalization was not even an issue in our last election. The issue was absent from Michale Moores Farenheit 911. Seems like The ACLU is all about fighting for the rights of forign nationals detained at Guantanmo, or fighting for Jose Padilla to worry about the hundreds of people arested each year. Our Civil Libretarians and Press Pundits are more interested in playing GOTCHA with politicians than about ordinary freedoms. Our news media treats civil discourse like The World Wrestling Federation instead of probing for this injustice to hippies everywhere.
Got that right Piney. I just checked one of my mail accounts that I get NORML news on and found the following though. 'Bout time somebod spoke up about this, and 'tis a conservative group that did it. Cool beans even though we (just about any average stoner) have been telling them this for years. Drug Czar's Office A "Federal Wasteland" That Fails To Show Results: Study Says ONDCP's Anti-Drug Ads, State Lobbying Efforts Cited As Grossly Inappropriate And Ineffective Washington, DC:The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has wasted more than $4 billion since fiscal year 1997 on ineffective media advertising, inappropriate efforts to influence state legislation, and deficient anti-drug trafficking programs, according to a report released this week by the non-partisan Washington, DC think-tank Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). "The White House [ONDCP] has morphed into a federal wasteland, throwing taxpayer money toward numerous high-priced drug control programs that have failed to show results," the report concludes. The report cites the office's $2 billion National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign as one of the agency's most egregious programs, calling it "an utter failure ... [that] violated federal propaganda laws, did not reduce drug use amongst America's youth, and produced no significant results." Other independent reviews of the Campaign, including those conducted by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, have issued similar criticisms, noting that it failed to achieve "its major objective of affecting youth marijuana use, and [it] even showed some evidence of an unfavorable delayed effect ... on youth." The CAGW study also criticizes the Drug Czar's office for spending taxpayers' dollars to campaign against proposed state legislation to liberalize the medical use of cannabis. The report notes that ONDCP officials lobbied in person against several statewide legislative efforts and spent nearly $100 million to run anti-marijuana advertisements aimed at influencing voters to reject state ballot initiatives. "[T]he office continues to waste federal resources to influence the outcome of state ballot initiatives, acting like Big Brother and infringing upon states' rights," it states. "The White House's drug office should use its resources to root out major drug operations in the US instead of creating propaganda-filled news videos and flying across the country on the taxpayers' dime." NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre added, "With the White House Office of Management and Budget recently rating the Drug Enforcement Administration a 'zero' in the category of 'results/accountability,' and a conservative watchdog group now calling the ONDCP a 'federal wasteland' of inefficiency, isn't it about time for Congress to reevaluate the drug war and, specifically, the Administration's costly and ineffective war on cannabis?" Full text of the Citizens Against Government Waste report, "Up In Smoke: ONDCP's Wasted Efforts In the War on Drugs," is available online in pdf at: http://www.cagw.org/site/DocServer/Up_in_Smoke.pdf?docID=1081 ... and as far as groups etc... hell just search around these very mj activism forums...
NORML (norml.org) and Change the Climate, Inc. (changetheclimate.org) are some forerunners in the movement. I'm sure their are plenty of other groups. If you want to know more sites pm me. I've been an advocate for around three years now, and I've done a shit load of research.
