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Greenman

Boycotting toilet paper is not a viable solution. Or really ciggerettes either. Boycotting Philip Morris, for example, would also mean boycotting Kraft Foods, which Morris owns a 80 something percent stake in.

Instead of Boycotting the companies, I have been trying to get people to see the light of buying stock in these companies.

tobacco companies (Philip Morris, R J Renolds, etc)
Snapple
Dupont
paper giants (International Paper)
hearst
kimberly clark
Alcohol Companies (Budwieser, Miller)

Through stocks that pay dividends, you can take the payment and apply some of the target companies profits directly to the marijuana cause through donations. Its free money. Make Budwieser work for the cause, there is nothing they can do about it.

You will have the power (1 share=1 vote) to elect board members, and with enough support, force issues on the corporate ballot. Say forcing the ciggerette companies into researching the profitablility in marijuana, or to stop funding the drug war propoganda.

You also get the any capital appreciation in the stock as profit for your efforts in the War. The majority of these companies have been around for decades, and are very stable companies, even the tobacco companies.

No one has yet to explain to me why this won't work. And it is much more effective than boycotting because it changes your lifestyle hardly at all.

Peace.

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goober

phillip morris has a patent sitting at the patent office for "green cigarettes" the day it goes legal. odd that he funds the war on drugs, but if mj was legal he'd be a dealer.

Greenman

With the price of ciggerettes constantly on the rise, advertising bans on tobacco in the EU, and competition for market share as fierce as its been, don't be suprised if the ciggerette companies have not already realized how little they would need to change their equipment to start selling marijuana ciggerettes. Marijuana is a huge untapped market, which global sentiment is changing on, that big tobacco could capitalize on with very little start up cost, just at the time when their bread and butter markets start drying up.

May not need to much of a push from their shareholders to start them in that direction.

Peace.