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In Washington, D.C. to protest the results of a certain recent election? You may get the chance to light up at the same time:
Some activists in town for Inauguration Day are willing to risk arrest by planning to go "green." The DC Cannabis Coalition plans to hand out 4,200 free joints the day President-elect Donald Trump will take over the White House, in an effort to keep their hopes of federal marijuana legalization from taking a hit. The group will begin at 8 a.m. in Dupont Circle, then plans to march down to the National Mall in time for Mr. Trump's inauguration. At exactly 4 minutes and 20 seconds into Mr. Trump's inaugural address -- 420 is the commonly known code for marijuana -- thousands of protesters will light up.
[...] "The main message is it's time to legalize cannabis at the federal level," Adam Eidinger, the founder of DCMJ, a group of D.C. residents who introduced and helped get D.C.'s marijuana legalization initiative passed, told CBS affiliate WUSA.
[...] Eidinger also said the protest isn't explicitly anti-Trump; all are welcome, and organizers are happy for it to be a joint effort between supporters of different political parties. The joints themselves will be completely free. "We don't want any money exchanged whatsoever, this is really a gift for people who come to Washington, D.C.," he said.
CBSN is still running fake news segments about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) as of Jan. 5th.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:06PM
Be a dissenter by doing what everyone else is doing! So brave, so brave.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:46PM
I'm pretty sure these people will be in the minority, "everyone else" will actually NOT be smoking any pot. Weed truly does replace a lot of pharmaceuticals, with many people having a better response to the weed with less side effects than the pharma drugs. It is also much safer/healthier for society than say... alcohol.
Time to drop the deeply developed prejudice and cultural bigotry, realize you've been led by the nose to promote class/culture warfare. One of Nixon's aids even copped to that fact!
John Ehrlichman [cnn.com]
Marijuana is probably the best example of propaganda brainwashing, when you look at the actual data compared to alcohol and cigarettes it becomes clear that determined prejudice is the problem and not the drug itself. Hey, I think we can say the same thing about a lot of our current political problems too; on both sides of the aisle, though the conservatives tend to have a larger piece of that pie.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @07:55PM
Thanks for that stoner propaganda piece. I see you're in the in-crowd yourself, crowd-follower.
Let's all do jimsonweed instead of marijuana. Jimsonweed is legal, has always been legal, and is more potent than marijuana. So potent you could die.
"What the fuck is jimsonweed I don't even. STFU and GTFU talking shit loser!"
Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Uncle_Al on Friday January 06 2017, @08:00PM
The Brown Shirts are out in force today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:05PM
Well let's see now. I know what a brownshirt is. Do you know what jimsonweed is?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:32PM
Here, since you have so much trouble being helpful: Jimsonweed AKA Datura Stramonium [wikipedia.org]
Stuff like this is why drug education is more important than drug prohibition. You teach kids about LD50 (lethal does that will kill 50% of subjects) and they'll know better than to fuck with jimsonweed, and if they do at least they'll be educated about the dangers. See, jimsonweed is too common to be banned along with a bunch of other plants that can have deleterious effects. Since you can't effectively remove it from existence, and you can't police every individual at all times, education is the much better method. Prohibition results in increased crime from the black market and increased harm from a general lack of information. All the facts support this, and the only thing supporting prohibition is the uneducated prejudice developed by crafted propaganda.
I even searched for a link to give you some historical background, this one seems pretty good Timeline [procon.org]
So magically cannabis went from actual medicine to a "dangerous drug". We have thousands of years of cannabis use showing it to be less harmful than alcohol, real life test cases of people outright abusing cannabis yet the worst problem is increased lung cancer (easily mitigated) and relatively minor cognitive effects. The effects on the brain require heavy and continued use, and there is a greater effect on developing brains. Again, education would probably prevent most teens from toking up too much whereas prohibition just makes it "cool" so that more people following the lemming route of "everyone's doing it".
Care to respond with some actual debate? Or are you limited to using a completely different plant to draw a correlation that doesn't exist? PS: as far as I know there is not one recorded death from overdoes of just cannabis, the LD50 is so high it would be easier to kill yourself drinking water.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:40PM
I'm only interested in mocking the cannabis culture for being a bunch of ignorant fuckers who smoke weed to belong to the cool crowd, thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:54PM
I have epilepsy that's not well controlled by anything else, but they still didn't let me into the cool crowd. :(
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:56PM
You're on the wrong website... go check some hip hop and/or skater forums. Do you direct that same derision against people who smoke cigarettes to be cool or lose weight? How about all the alcoholics? Nothing worse than the self-righteous preacher, live and let live guy. Save your anger for when it actually affects your life.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:19PM
You're right I must be on the wrong site because there's nothing about shoving linux penguins up your ass while beating off to nude cosplay of lady stormtroopers. Where are the nerds? Send in the nerds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:27PM
You scared them off, asshole.
Also you forgot to link to the nude Captain Phasma cosplay, you fucking loser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:36PM
Sure dude, I scared them off. Has nothing to do with the fact that linux isn't even nerdy anymore, linux is installed in almost every piece of cheap consumer crap, and star wars films are multibillion dollar blockbusters instead of obscure crap for nerds.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:41PM
Jesus, the bitterness in this thread! If ever someone was in dire need of getting high and chilling out.... that is probably too much "drug slang" for you, but I'm not sure how to word it as if you would pop pills to adjust your brain chemistry. Seriously, mental stress is a killer and it is clear you're burning yourself out on mental crusades against things you can't change and which don't even affect your life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @10:01PM
Going to get raped now. Rape counts as getting laid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @10:51PM
Your logic is flawless *golf clap*
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:06PM
Someone has some serious bitterness going on. "Yep, that's how that works." What are you on about? You still buy the "society will end and all men will rape women if they even look at marihuana" shtick? You think its OK for pharmaceutical companies to purchase legislation against a drug less detrimental than alcohol? You are showing off your own ignorance little duderino. Pulling out the jimsonweed reference doesn't help your case, it just shows how you don't understand the issues at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:23PM
More stoner propaganda! Jimsonweed is potentially much more harmful than either alcohol or marijuana, and jimsonweed is legal. Why is that? Because it's not popular with stupid idiots like you! You have no fucking clue, moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:39PM
Given your weird use of "logic" it would seem you're on a legal high right now... You can call me a moron all you want but its clear you are lacking in real information, you just memorized a few points (so far it seems like just one though, jimsonweed! JIMSONWEED! JIM SON WEEEEEED) which you seem to think make your viewpoint ironclad. You have no clue! Right now pharmaceuticals are some of the most popular drugs to abuse. You are the one without a clue about successful drug programs / policy. Just more rage against "the damn hippies".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:50PM
Keep smoking that marijuana. It's what you were told to do by your peers. Gotta protest the man keeping your peer group down. Be disrespectful, but not too disrespectful, anti-Trumpers go too far, you know. Secure your social status in the peer group today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:59PM
Speaking of no clue... You are just a bitter person trying to spew your personal anger. Its more likely that you were socially rejected for being a puritanical loudmouth, but you can blame a plant if that helps you cope. Ha! You're using marijuana in the ACTUAL most dangerous manner, to clooooose your miiiiind :D
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday January 06 2017, @08:57PM
Hemlock is also legal. And nightshade. And castor beans, but you might want to be careful with them. What is your point, AC?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:13PM
Let's just abandon controversial controlled substances and get our highs from uncontroversial unregulated legal substances instead. Especially since marijuana is weak anyway. Nope. Never going to happen. Can't make a political stunt to demand the legalization of legal substances.
What's my point? Marijuana is irrelevant. Pointless political stunt is pointless. People are morons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:28PM
FTFY. If people want to use weed or any other controversial substance, let them.
It also doesn't kill people outright, like your gay JIMSONWEED.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:42PM
That's great why don't you start a movement to make JIMSONWEED ILLEGAL since it can kill people outright. You know why that won't work. Because all your ignorant faggot buddies will be like, "Jimsonweed, what the fuck is that shit I don't even."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:47PM
Actually, it's pretty easy. Just suggest it's becoming popular with teenagers.
You know what, fuck it. Let's do this shit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:50PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:58PM
No no no no that won't work. If we don't have prohibition of some drugs, protesters won't have anything to protest. Don't you understand prohibition keeps the protesters' culture alive?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:10PM
Waaah waaah some people mocked me for my ridiculously out of touch conservative values, waaah waaah! The "cool kids" are mean cause I'm a douche that doesn't realize it waaaah. The Protestant era is dying, deal with it.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:18PM
I literally told you to do a hallucinogenic drug, and you claim I have conservative values? How fucking stupid you?
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Friday January 06 2017, @08:33PM
Jimsonweed would be considered a deliriant, not a hallucinogen....
"Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!"--Edward Abbey
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:44PM
My god your double think matches a certain person I shall not name.
Let's all do jimsonweed instead of marijuana. Jimsonweed is legal, has always been legal, and is more potent than marijuana. So potent you could die.
Yeah, that doesn't sound like sarcasm at all. Just a ringing endorsement from your friendly drug pusher...
Me not fucking stupid, how you? Maybe you're not a typical conservative, but drug prohibition always has been a typically conservative stance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:54PM
Pick a crowd and follow it! Do some drugs! But not other drugs! Do not ever make your own choice! Always follow peer pressure!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:04PM
Why do you have such a stick up your ass? You must be pretty young, in highschool, college, or at best just graduated. After those time periods people generally grow up and I have yet to see any instances of people smoking weed to "be cool", but then again I'm a nerd not a cool kid. Oh, you could be an old person who sees some young relatives going down a less-than-ideal path, that seems a little more fitting.
Social peer pressure results in a lot of things, but none of that has anything to do with this story. Thanks for the tangent, it let a few people share some info that others might actually find useful. Back to the self-flagellation High Inquisitor!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:27PM
No dude. I don't have the right kind of stick up my ass. I should shove a joint up my ass and join your million moron march on Washington for the holy cause of cannabis. Fuck you and fuck your cause.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:34PM
As much as I hate you now, I will probably be just as much of a cynical asshole in 10 years. So hat(e)'s off to you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @10:54PM
The first step is realizing you have a problem:
We admitted we were powerless over hate - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Now just find your preferred higher power and someone to coach you through the rough times ahead, just 11 more steps!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @02:40AM
Are you that dissatisfied with your life? Nothing said any intoxicant has to be "done". Grow up, be a part of society.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 07 2017, @12:56AM
I am 100% pro-legalization, not because I'm a "stoner" as one AC so pejoratively put it (*), but because the drug war is fucking waste of money that solves nothing at all. How many shiny safe bridges, parks, inter-urban trails, dog parks, Mars landers, telescopes or whatever floats your boat could we have built over the years for the money wasted on the drug war?
(*) pot is not at all fun for me -- I just get sort of trapped in my head, very non-communicative, and too clumsy to actually do anything enjoyable while waiting for it to wear off.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by butthurt on Friday January 06 2017, @08:03PM
Given the passage of a pro-cannabis referendum in the District of Columbia, it's reasonable to assume that the majority of the people there are in favour of the availability of cannabis (of course it's hyperbole to say "everyone" is in favour). However, what this group intends to do violates federal law. It isn't merely unpopular: should the law be enforced, they could be prosecuted and (I would guess) fined or imprisoned for their actions. I do see bravery there. Really though, why should bravery be required of those expressing majoritarian political views? When majoritarians feel as though they need to commit civil disobedience in order to be listened to, perhaps that signifies a systemic problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @08:13PM
This is why we can't have real democracy, tyranny of the majority!! Sometimes people need to be forced into living better lives.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday January 06 2017, @08:55PM
Yes, that's a huge problem with democracy--but no one has called for democracy. These cannabis advocates just want their weed, whether for pleasure or for medical reasons. I'm sure they would say that their lives are better when it's available to them. If you're implying that intoxication by the plant amounts to "tyranny" over non-users I think you chose the wrong word, but that is a valid concern.
I was merely saying that these protesters ought not to be expected to take heroic measures to express their wishes. It looks to me as though the federal authorities have been loath to liberalise the law around cannabis; perhaps these protesters are hoping that the new Congress and new president will be more amenable to the idea.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fadrian on Friday January 06 2017, @08:39PM
When majoritarians feel as though they need to commit civil disobedience in order to be listened to, perhaps that signifies a systemic problem.
Those who currently hold power do no see it as a problem, but as a beneficial feature of the system. Therefore, no problem exists, citizen.
That is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:41PM
What kind of fool thinks the point of protesting is to protest?
Did you never grow out of that rebellious teenager stage?
The point of dissent is to initiate change. The more people doing this, the more likely that pot becomes fully legalized.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday January 06 2017, @10:20PM
The summary says it's related to "their hopes of federal marijuana legalization."