I AM ME wrote:It would be the smae thing as alcohol, therefore children would not have acess to it (at least not more then they already do), we would have better access of what was going into our marijuana, if it's not an underground thing it's less taboo, and we obviously would have more power over it.
Your argument was that all you need is soil, seeds, and water. Guess what all people need now is soil, seeds, and water. Whether it's legal or not people are going to do it. And to be honest it's not much worse then alcohol.
I would say that alcohol is much more dangerous to the public and also more addictive then marijuana. Not to mention Nicotine is an extremely addictive drug, and people who smoke have much larger health risks.
alcohol has to be bought at a store, where as high school kids with a car can just as easily drive out to the country, pull over and loot a rancher's crop. it's ok when they do that now with corn or watermelons, but this is pot. with alcohol it's a process, it requires much more then soil water and seeds. water and seeds are easy to come by, but when pot is illegal, soil is hard to come by simply because it's illegal to raise a pot farm. people still do it, yes thats true, just like people still make bathtub moonshine.
alcohol has regulations on it, certain beverages can only have X amount of alcohol in them, and be only a certain proof. with so many types of weed and different potiencies, i don't see how any government can regulate weed to a cetain quality. and even if that were a posability, to where you could only buy up to a certain potiency at your local shop, there would still be a demand for more potient/cheeper pot.
it never ceases to amaze me how pro-pot people are mad at the american government and police agencies for making pot illegal, yet, police agencies and government agencies are the ones supplying the public with the substances. i'm sure some of you have seen the Crack the CIA video on GNN. what's even more depressing is the fact that one day while i was talking out loud a former state trooper told me that 99% of the time they caught someone trafficing drugs into the US, a drug cartel or people that actually put the drugs into that car put the finger on them. that's a buy off people, if you are going to set someone up, you set them up with a small amount of product, or a small amount of cash. i know damn well it's a buy off, people get pulled over for missing tail lights, no licence plate light, broken headlight. those are all little signals to the feds that, hey, i have your money, come take it and let us keep supplying America's habbit. it's to the point to where there's no drug busts anymore, only money busts. so technically you do have legal pot in this country, you can get pot in every country town, city, or metro-area, as long as the supplier is taxed.
We should be pissed people. We, the youth, should be revolutionizing the way politics in this country work. we should be banding together to make change, not marching in the streets. in case you haven't noticed, your not changing anyone's mind about the war, it doesn't matter how many psudo-coffins you carry, or how long the line of unemployment is. the only thing that matters, is that you do not vote. so no one panders to you and your needs or your desires. you don't vote because your too fucking gone with your drugs. and even if you did, there's so many of you that want pot legalized, that the whole world looks at the American youth and thinks were all fucking junkies. your fighting the establishment the wrong way. instead of trying to speak from the streets, we need to speak at the polls, and not by voting for a republican or a democrat or even one of those glorified lobbiest people that run for office just to get their point of view some attention. We need to run for office, we need to run on the premise of free will and what our constituents need. everyone else that has been in this program of 'us vs. them' politics are useless to us. they're already corrupt with corporate money. people all over the country vote in a certain pattern because daddy voted that way, mommy voted that way, because everyone of my relatives votes that way. they follow blindly what their party wants, what their party tells them to follow. WHY!?
the 60's were great, people were awakened or whatever but, they did not accomplish anything. not a godamn thing got done, those protests were just a few reasons to get together and get high. protest is a right, and god bless all of you that do it. but it's a sham, you were told that if you protest, people with authority will listen. that's not true, no one has or ever will listen to you. what you need to do is threaten the political structure by runing for office on your own premise, not taking any money from corporations, by making the demo/republi monster the minority. when you take over the school board, the city council, the state representative seat, and the state senator seats, they'll notice. when your in your state's house of representatives and it's time for a vote and everyone else votes along party lines and you vote on what you feel is right and what you feel your constituents need, people will notice. protesters will be your lobby groups, because unlike all the shut in's in office right now, you will listen. as long as you listen, they'll make your re-election signs, and they will electioneer for you. you don;t need money to run for office, you only need the will of the people, and the people will supply you with signs and stickers and other campaign needs. it's been done before, with much less. everybody assumes that national policies are the most important, but your wrong. state and local policies are the most important. those local spots are up for grabs, especially when no one votes.
but we don't vote, only 34% of us do, and i promise you that more than 68% of us do drugs. everything i just ranted about can work, if we got off our asses and throw away the fucking chemical weapons instead of putting them in our bodies. Hitler wanted Jews either dead or worked to death. Police and government agencies want us, the angry youth, either dead to the world with shit in our systems pretending to make a difference in the streets, or in jail without rights. Either way nothing, not one godamn thing, will be done.
