Posted on 05/05/2007 8:07:29 AM PDT by dukeman
SARASOTA -- A group pushing to legalize marijuana plans to march at noon today as part of the annual Global Marijuana March.
The Florida Cannabis Action Network will hold signs at Fruitville Road and Washington Boulevard, making Sarasota one of 232 cities around the world taking part.
The group calls for the end to all cannabis arrests and the legalization of cannabis for recreation, medicine, food, fiber, agriculture and fuel.
Cannabis needs no pesticides and little fertilizer, is the strongest natural fiber known to man and can be used as an alternative fuel, the group says.
The same group rallied in front of former U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' office last July, but was not motivated to lambast her as initially planned.
Group members had planned to blast Harris for her opposition to legislation that would have allowed medicinal use of the drug.
But the group's leader said he lost his desire to pick on Harris because she was giving up her House seat to run for the Senate.
“Dude, besides we ran out of Doritos!”
Marijuana will not be legalized. Too many lawyers, drug counselors, probation officers etc. make too much money on it being illegal.
Smoking pot is one of the major causes of global warming.
Nice mellow people, but I heard their march took a turn down the wrong street.
“...I heard their march took a turn down the wrong street.”
It did, but nobody cared, or even noticed.
Not really. Spider silk, a natural fiber, although one we can't harvest easily, is much stronger.
Haaaaa!
"Katherine Harris, we came here to... wait... what? Hey! A Taco Bell!!"
APf
“Nice mellow people, but I heard their march took a turn down the wrong street.”
And they had to stop for lots of snacks and to take a nap.
Why on Earth would there still be street sales? You see pushers on street corners selling illicit alcohol and tobacco much?
“Marijuana will not be legalized. Too many lawyers, drug counselors, probation officers etc. make too much money on it being illegal.”
I think you meant “relegalized”.
In the same vein: “Alcohol will not be relegalized. Too many laywers, doctors, probation officers, judges and elected officials make too much money (and get too much power) from it being illegal.” - Elliot Ness.
OK, I made up the quote - but I hope you get the point.
BTW, Anslinger was a lying a-hole, and the whole rationale of criminalizing cannabis in the first place was a crock. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;-)
It’s long past time that reform occured and we stop ruining people’s lives over nothing more than “the pursuit of happiness”.
‘Politicians, primarily locals, will follow their urge to protect the masses for the purpose of collecting taxes, taxes, and some more taxes, then do some additional protecting by taxes, but short of negatively affecting “legal” sales.’
Since almost all of the legalization proposals simply allow people to grow it, there is generally no tax revenue involved. That’s a good thing.
You folks ARE generally anti-tax, right? lol
Of course! This is why governments collect virtually no tax revenue from sales of alcohol and tobacco. Since people can simply brew their own beer, distill their own spirits, or grow their own tobacco, there aren't any retail sales of these products to speak of. Liquor shops and tobacconists are deserted and tumbleweed-infested, since of course nobody finds the convenience and higher quality control of commercially-manufactured products an attractive reason not to self-produce. Right?
...Dave’s not here!
Something about the idea, of Stoners marching, is just really funny. Mayne they could have a Precision Bong Drill Team.
“Liquor shops and tobacconists are deserted and tumbleweed-infested, since of course nobody finds the convenience and higher quality control of commercially-manufactured products an attractive reason not to self-produce. Right?”
Since much of the proposed legislation PROHIBITS commercial sales, your point seems moot.
You also seem confused about the relative difficulty of obtaining the ingredients and brewing a premium brew, versus plantiong a seed and waiting four months.
Keep researching, you’ll get it sooner or later.
add gansters
and gangsters
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