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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: 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*