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| After thinking long and hard about legalization and different routes of rallying the troops. I came up with the idea of an online photo protest. Basically you photograph yourself with a sign or smoking and upload it to the database. We collect all the photographs until April 20th 2008. Next year 4/20 all the photographs will be printed out and sent to multiple government officials on the state and federal levels, here in the US, as a petition to legalize (medical) or decriminalize (recreational) marijuana. Depending on the overall outcome other government officials may be added to the list. If this sounds like something you can accomplish please take your photo and upload it today, we can use all the support we can gather. Please note that names, addresses, etc are not recorded and you can sign up with any email address as there is no confirmation. Prefered sign text is "I Toke 2" Check out the site @ weToke2.com Please let me know what you think about this idea. -S |
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| Melodious ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2007
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| I am all for legalization of marijuana.. something tells me taking a photo of yourself smoking an illegal substance, and sending it to a government official is not a wise decision. |
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| this is done with the idea of showing them... for instance that they cannot arrest us all. If we gather 500k or 1 million photos ( very realistic ) That would more than fill the prison system a second time. Anyhow paranoid folks can also make a sign and photograph with that... ( This is the preferred method) |
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| Ya gotta be kidding das3d! you`re kidding or you are a cop! I`ll forgive you if you are kidding. They (justice system) don`t need to toss a million people into prison, all`s thats needed is the money.Have you ever heard of the "great American court turnstyle system" ? ka-ching, ka-ching! |
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| Where do you think the money is going to come from to print all the pictures? If you gathered enough for it to have any sort of impact, the printing costs would be appreciable.. And for anybody who thinks they can get arrested from a picture; No.. Clearly not.. There isn't even any way they can prove you're smoking marijuana in the photo, so all you'd have to do would be to deny it and there would be nothing that could do. - Rauch|Drogen |
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The point is they cant jail a million people.... shit I doubt they could do 500k. what do you mean "They (justice system) don`t need to toss a million people into prison, all`s thats needed is the money."?? | |
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To add onto the getting arrested notion, I'm not holding any personal info, a real email address is not necessary, and the sign is the preferred way here. In a sense your signing a petition with your photo and more importantly your sign. | |
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| I don't see how this is supposed to be effective. Does this stop Geo Group, aka Wackenhut, from trading their stock based on how many people are in their jails? Does this stop the alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries from profiting off the drug prohibition? Does this stop these companies from paying for lobbyists? Does this get lobbyists into congress? The answer is no. Not to be a dick but if you really want to help get marijuana legalized, spread the word about groups like Marijuana Policy Project and Norml.
__________________ In any case civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? -Fyodor Dostoevsky Last edited by Noeone : 10-30-2007 at 09:52 PM. Reason: jails not jail |
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How much would it take for someone to see your picture, report it to your boss, and get you "randomly" tested every week? Since only 60,000 people have bothered to take the much more useful and less incriminating step of joining one of the three major pro-legalization organizations, I really doubt the half a million people could be persuaded to make signs and post their pictures. Join NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) Join MPP (Marijuana Policy Project) Join DPA (Drug Policy Alliance)
__________________ McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Do we really want four more years of the same old shit? ~ Buzzby, 08/31/2008 | |
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