Originally Posted by ChaosCatalunya

OK

OK, so they knocked it on the head, doesn't mean that we should just bow our heads and take it.

The world is changing fast, there are new, digital ways to protest, and with a bit of intelligence, many different ways to protest and provoke debate by subversion and ridicule, not just "let's get some placards and hold a demo man" or unemployable students shivering in tents.

Surely a good viral/meme and, for example, creating fake news stories (a massively underused and absurdly easy ruse) causes more attention than most demos or pressure groups manage.

Some of the older scrotes on here may remember when a bunch of smelly anarchists and punks from the Crass commune in Epping Forest managed to fool the world with this in the days of photocopies and C90 casettes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatchergate

I know what your saying CC there is loads of ways to fight them rasta and I'll be there fighting I always have been and always will be.
But I don't believe in stooping down to there levels and lying, I only fight with the truth and I do believe the tide's turning but it's got to come from being truthful first and foremost.
It's what differentiates I an I from them

Respect rasta

[ChaosCatalunya]

We can and should fight with the truth, yes, but personally I see no issue with using shock, awe or outright fabrication to get what we want.

Ideally if we could find a real Economist, failing that, a student, who could, or has, calculated the financial losses and costs of prohibition and could add a projection, based on Colorado for example, of thefiscal gains and come up with some figures to make a straight financial case for legalisation.

Also, interesting ideas I have recently seen with people using the EU Human Rights legislation for something other than benefitting terrorists or rapists, that there is an opportunity to argue that growing your own is a human right. I don't like to buy weed from unknown sources as it may well be included, or worse contain pesticides etc. In the UK, sprayed with glass etc.

You could also make some interesting articles, interview Cannabis smokers and ask how many have been put off by the fact that it is illegal ?

Is anybody planning to stop smoking because it is against the law ?

How many people believe that continuing the prohibition and enforcement against Cannabis is likely to bring its illegal use to a stop this year ?

Award questions nobody asks, or wants asked. Invent a polling company, stop people in the street, publish the results yourself. The prohibition against Cannabis is on very shaky ground, the more we agitate, the sooner it comes down.

[mr.brunch]

You must spread some rep..... Yawn...

Nice post chaos... Rep deserved

[sianhan]

It is damn annoying how people in the government and media judge us and paint the picture that were all lazy paranoid freaks who are too dropped out we can't contribute to society. I have a responsible job,go to the gym five times a week all the normal stuff. Only difference is at the end of the day I like to chill out with a spliff or vap instead of a beer of bottle of wine. For fucks sake come on get a grip.
Anyway I'm intelligent enough to know my own mind and whatever the gov says I will always enjoy this plant...simply because it makes me a better person and I like it. Humans have been enjoying it for thousands of years who are they to tell me it's wrong.Like someone said earlier in this thread they will have to physically have to remove my buds from my dead cold hands.

[mr.brunch]

Debate date set.... October 15th

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104349

211,256 signatures now

[944s2]

Wonder how long the debate in October will last?'
Parliament on October 12 I believe and you can watch it live,,,s2

[mr.brunch]

213,185

[mr.brunch]

221,765

Just checked their site ,the debate is on mon October the 12th at 4:30 pm. Parliament live tv
Wondering how quickly they will dismiss this one.

[bigganjabud]

Well il watch it while I'm smoking some bud with a very attentive expression on my boat race

[Piff Rhys Jones]

The problem is it's impossible to debate with someone or a group of people that base their entire argument on an incorrect notion that something is "harmful", whilst ignoring the scientific facts to the contrary.

Peace