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If there's a single factor (of course there isn't, but if...) that insured the ineffectuality and failure of most protest and allegedly "progressive" movements since the late 1960s, it's the loony-tunes antics of superannuated hippies who - in their own stoned minds, at least - have manged to turn the act of getting high into some kind of revolutionary gesture.
If someone tried to start the Alcoholics Liberation Front, putting forth the notion that a bunch of drunks will lead us into the promised land, they'd be laughed into oblivion. But somehow it escapes the notice of potheads (gee, I wonder why) that they are at least as brain-addled as your garden-variety drunk. Worse, probably, because drunks at least have the tendency to fall over and pass out before they can do widespread damage. Potheads, unfortunately, stay awake, and the more they smoke, they more convinced they become of the irrefutable certainty of their wacked-out opinions.
Do I want to put dope smokers in jail? No, not any more than I want to put drinkers in jail. But do I want them exerting any influence on public policy? Hell no. I've already lived through the 60s once, and I've seen enough dreadlocks and bell-bottoms to last more than a lifetime. And don't even get me started on reggae.
P.S. Since it's inevitable that I will be attacked for being some whitebread Christian conservative who just doesn't understand how "liberating" and "enlightening" marijuana is, let me point out that I smoked the shit on an almost daily basis for over 27 years. I thought it made me smarter, too. That's why it's so appealing to people: it provides the illusion of intelligence and wisdom and the even bigger illusion that those qualities can be achieved by taking a drug rather than work and study.

the difference is, livermore, that drunks tend to fall over and pass out ...in their car and extinguish valuable lives. Pot smokers on the otherhand, just get stoned. The revolutionary gesture you refer to is repealing prohibition. What's wrong with that? it seems you agree that pot smokers should not be jailed.

Livermore,

go drink a beer and shut up.

<<the difference is, livermore, that drunks tend to fall over and pass out ...in their car and extinguish valuable lives. Pot smokers on the otherhand, just get stoned. The revolutionary gesture you refer to is repealing prohibition. What's wrong with that? it seems you agree that pot smokers should not be jailed. >>

I don't think pot smokers should be jailed, but not putting them in jail is about as "revolutionary" as Starbucks ( their next advertising slogan: "Join the coffee revolution!!"). In other words, the energy squandered on the "right" to get fucked up on dope instead of on beer could have been far more productively expended on genuinely progressive causes. And while potheads may not get in as many car crashes as drunks do, a generation melting its brains on hallucinogenic drugs ultimately does more damage than all the drunk drivers combined.

<<Livermore,

go drink a beer and shut up. >>

How many joints did you have to smoke to come up with that hilarious riposte? In the same spirit, I offer: go take a bath, hippie, you stink.

P.S. I don't drink. Just because I think dope is stupid doesn't mean I think booze is smart. But then you guys aren't advertising for the "Million Alcoholics March," are you?

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ill go take a bath now

you are right, there really is nothing "revolutionary" about the notion of peoples freedom over their own body.

>a generation melting its brains on hallucinogenic drugs ultimately does more damage than all the drunk drivers combined

please explain how smoking marijuana does more damage than drunk driving, spousal abuse, liver disease, and all of the other issues that are tied to alcoholism.

"please explain how smoking marijuana does more damage than drunk driving, spousal abuse, liver disease, and all of the other issues that are tied to alcoholism."

If it does equal damage as drunk driving, spousal abuse, liver disease, and all other issues, that is evidence enough we don't need something else that will increase these things.

Quotes from the "revolutionary" narc, llivermore. I rest my case.

"superannuated hippies"

"go take a bath, hippie, you stink."

"I've already lived through the 60s once"

"don't even get me started on reggae."

"a generation melting its brains on hallucinogenic drugs ultimately does more damage than all the drunk drivers combined."

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*For more MMM info, history, links, FLYERS, POSTERS (by mail or download), etc., go to Cures-not-Wars.org and schmoo.co.uk and CannabisCoalition.org
http://www.cures-not-wars.org and
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/cannabis and
http://www.cannabiscoalition.org

*Also check out:

*2001 MMM. global cannabis connections. Rally reports worldwide.
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/cannabis/world.htm

*2000 MMM. Alphabetical rally reports for 2000. MMM. A16. J4J3.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/links.htm

*1999 MMM. London and around the world. Rally reports.
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/cannabis/london.htm

*1999 MMM. Million Marijuana March. FoM (of CannabisNews.com) compilation of rally reports for cities worldwide.
http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/million.htm 

*The MAJORITY of the 2 MILLION U.S. prisoners are incarcerated due to the DRUG WAR! The Drug-War Industrial Complex. This is calculated by adding together prisoners who have committed drug crimes (24%), drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% (2 million) of the world's 8 MILLION prisoners. As of the year 2000 the USA again has the world's highest incarceration rate! It is 5 to 17 times higher than all other Western (long democratic traditions) nations. The US rate is almost 4 times higher than in 1980 at the time of Reagan's election, and almost 5 times higher than in 1971 when Nixon declared a "war on drugs." 6.5 million adults, or 1 in 32 adults in the USA, or 3.1% of U.S. adults, were under correctional supervision (in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole) at yearend 2000. Statistics, references, links, and charts:
http://corporatism.tripod.com/majority.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/majority.htm and
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/majority.htm

Number of people killed by marijuana in human history. ______ ZERO.

The 16 peoples loved ones might dispute that. The 16 killed in the PA train wreck where the engineer said he was smoking pot before and during his wreck.

Thats the whole point. It dosen't do all that damage. I've never heard of any body overdosing on marijuanna. Unlike alcohol in every way, THC does not make you act like a drooling idiot, dosen't cause bar fights and if anything it makes people think of their actions (paranoia) instead of being a careless drunkard. Personally drinking a whole pot of coffee would be more dangerous. I just wish it would be legalised so I wont have to teach my kids about all the realy bad drugs that are out there if they could just purchase marijuanna at the local mini mart. Their going to buy it either way. I would feel safer knowing it came form a legitimate establishment.

Thats the whole point. It dosen't do all that damage. I've never heard of any body overdosing on marijuanna. Unlike alcohol in every way, THC does not make you act like a drooling idiot, dosen't cause bar fights and if anything it makes people think of their actions (paranoia) instead of being a careless drunkard. Personally drinking a whole pot of coffee would be more dangerous. I just wish it would be legalised so I wont have to teach my kids about all the realy bad drugs that are out there if they could just purchase marijuanna at the local mini mart. Their going to buy it either way. I would feel safer knowing it came form a legitimate establishment.