-
Happy Birthday ICMag! Been 20 years since Gypsy Nirvana created the forum! We are celebrating with a 4/20 Giveaway and by launching a new Patreon tier called "420club". You can read more here.
-
Important notice: ICMag's T.O.U. has been updated. Please review it here. For your convenience, it is also available in the main forum menu, under 'Quick Links"!
Activism and exposure
- Thread starter OLordy
- Start date
Yes it is a dangerous addition to growing.
Depends on the laws in your state. You say you only grow for yourself so depending on the state the risk could be rather minimal.
If you're not selling, smelling, or telling then anyone interested in you due to your activism work can speculate all they want.
Not saying they couldnt do a knock and talk and "say" they smelled something, but I think those chances are slim if you've got no obviously illegal activity otherwise.
Keep your trash clean!
Be careful in other aspects of growing, (acquiring supplies, disposing of waste, etc)
I'd likely make this decision based on the harshness of punishment in your state as well as the size of the city you'll be working in. Becoming a target in a large city due to activism might be a bit less likely then doing some activism work in a small rural town where everyone knows everyone and gossip runs rampant.
Around here.. the cops are too busy to give a shit about us potheads. They'll take it if its handed to them, but most of them know its harmless and their day shift consists handling acts of violence and much harder drugs.
O
OrganicOzarks
You can be an activist, and grow however you will be highly paranoid the entire time. I have done it for years, and it sucks balls.
O
OrganicOzarks
Be careful donating large sums of money to getting laws passed. Most states require large donors to be listed on public record. My State says anything over $50 has to be on the list.
Something to think about.
Something to think about.
The noisiest rats get shot at first.
Just saying.
Stay Safe!
Just saying.
Stay Safe!
Peacefully disobeying laws is a form of activism, why stick your neck out any further.
Ghandi called it Satyagraha.
Ghandi called it Satyagraha.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/...st-hours-after-shes-linked-to-marijuana-bill/
Just a coincidence. Honest.
Peeping through the fence at topless sunbathers is illegal, but peeping at marijuana plants is OK in Florida. No double standard at all. Huh-uhh!
Just a coincidence. Honest.
Peeping through the fence at topless sunbathers is illegal, but peeping at marijuana plants is OK in Florida. No double standard at all. Huh-uhh!
No charges filed? Really??
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/16849/no-marijuana-charges-filed-against-robert-cathy-jordan/
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/16849/no-marijuana-charges-filed-against-robert-cathy-jordan/
Of course not. Raiding that couple was really dumb, and prosecuting them would be even dumber. With MMJ legislation pending in Florida, they don't want people getting riled up *in favor* of MMJ, at all. They don't want to give pro-MMJ forces a poster child. They want to kill it, quietly, like drowning a baby in a bathtub. Keep it in committee, avoid it, so that when the session ends, well, it's just something they didn't get done, gosh darn it. So very Busy! Maybe next year, or the year after that, or never if "Conservatives" have their way.
You are discounting the Rockafellers and their big weapons like AMA and FDA and endless pockets - 'conservatives' is a small player in their game. Money and power - that's two biggest obstacles. Don't forget that cops consider cannabis movement as direct threat to their job security; add the prison lobby to that, and all average Joes and Janes who loved ms. Reagan's "Just say no" campaign; all those involved in the black market who continue releasing strains with names that can't be associated with a medicine - Strawberry Dogshit, Alien Gangrape... - all of this force is against legalization.
The only unlikely allies would be: lobby of alternative fuel, textile industry, and tobacco. But FDA and AMA together is a behemoth compared to these major three industries - there is no doubt they will fight cannabis legislation to the last breath.
Then this case might serve as a precedent in any med.cannabis defence in court, something you could cite in other courts of that county, then of that state's, then federal... in that case I believe the supreme court is obligated to issue an opinion on law enforcement, which can lead to medical excuse becoming a valid excuse in courts across the country. I am not a lawyer - could be wrong - anyone competent here to answer this question?
