Legalization Presentation

True why should they bother when they in fact do make quite a bit of money off of it being illegal in the first place. Cheap labor forces contained within four walls that can't go anywhere. Also, they, as described in another thread stand to get tax breaks and subsidies for drug testing of employees. In deccriminalization are we talking utilizing also as a medicine across the board, how's that handled in decrim? In decrim can little old ladies still be sent to jail for growing their own plants even though they have a legal prescription? It's not just a leisure plant per se.

The idea of the culture commodity market getting a grip on the herb makes me sick still though. It would be horrible.

 

decriminalization can be alot closer to legalization that you figure.... like i stated before in california... its legal to grow a certain amount of marijuana for medical use.. and i believe for personal use... its the matter of being in public while having marijuana on yoru person or consuming in public....

 

In CA it is legal to grow for medical use (with a doctor's note) but not for personal recreational use.

jo k er man's argument about the preservation of the people's cannibis culture is flawed. The existance of corporate culture does not preclude the existance of an alternate non-corporate culture.

Take music as an example, there is MTV etc. AND there are small festivals across the country where musicians play for the people. There are people who never watch MTV and there are the masses who have never heard of Utah Phillips.

There is a non-corporate culture in this country. Cannabis is part of that culture. The legalization of grass will create a corporate pot culture (btw, is High Times mag. part of corporate culture or not?), but that culture will not affect the (I wish I knew a better term) counter culture.

Now that I think of it, part of any culture is the definition of "outlaws" and the expectations that we have of different kinds of outlaws. Most marijuana users are following the corporate culture in their use of pot. Look at how many threads there are about "I got ripped off, I'm going to beat up that dude." If we look at the posts in this forum, it doesn't look like cannabis creates a different culture.

My point is that you a part of the corporate culture to what ever extent you are. A change in the coporate culture from pot=outlaw to "Smoke High Sticks, they are the 4-20est of them all" will not change whether people opt in or out of the corporate world.

 

I think the best source for a presentation would definatly be the Norml site. It has all the state law statuses and a section on the victims of the war on drugs