I smoke weed all the time and I'm as mad as ever. I'm not pacified at all.

That's because you're informed.

Smoking that good good only helps me be more creative with what I will do when the time is upon us all.

Mad is relative. You're on f'n reddit. I'm pretty sure revolutionaries don't waste their limited time cruising the popular culture distractions. Pretty sure you're pacified.

So an activist has to be constantly doing stuff? If I spend any time on reddit I'm pacified? That is an odd opinion to have.

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What does that make you, then?

Pacified? My point is & was that if you are on Reddit...don't kid yourself.....you are pacified. Everything is not a comparison of me vs you. You read that in yourself.

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Seems like a treadmill to me. We are very controlled in many ways, legalizing weed is a smoke screen

Ahh nice pun

The government didn't legalize weed it was a voter initiative in Washington State.

They let it go through?

States rights trump federal. (Supposedly)

supremacy clause: no they don't (legally)

(or so they want you to believe)

I don't think they had a choice, maybe it would have been over turned if Colorado had failed to pass.

But two states legalizing at the same time would make it harder for the feds to crack down. The push back would be worse than letting us have our fun.

Exactly. They knew there wasn't the political will to overturn it. If they had, it would have become a bigger issue, and none of the conservatives can say shit because they've been pumping States Rights for decades. It's been fun watching the domino effect as state after state begins rethinking how they deal with cannabis.

You are stoned man.

I think that's part of it but you gotta consider the financial aspect as well. Yes, the government and banks make lots of money off of drugs in their current illegal state, but if they were legalized there's even more opportunities for the finalization of the drug industry. If weed was ever legal there'd be weed futures and short selling of weed and all that shit that can't happen now.

It's actually just a struggle between a variety of corporations, both public and private; those which make money of its illegality are trying to defend their profit center against those which make money off its legality.

If there's no money, there's no legislation. In Washington we have a community of nonprofit organizations who were trying to get legalization on the ballot. They had the Proposition written up, the petitions signed, and when it looked like it was going to pass, this shadowy group with a similar law came along. Suddenly there were two bills competing for the same ballot, only the one from the second group made it. What was the difference between the two bills? The second bill had a bunch of giveaways to law enforcement including some stiff and arbitrary DUI measures. You can guess where the money for that bill came from...

This.

Yes, this, but it's not so much a struggle between forces as a deliberate suppression of one, because of weed's ability to both build neurons, and cure cancer. Then there's hemp, the most important plant on the planet.

Newer electromagnetic frequency-based methods of controlling mental states make it unnecessary to rely solely on cultural conditioning and propaganda to control the masses. While weed makes people resistant to propaganda, it may make people more susceptible to brainwave control.

This, incidentally, is why binaural technology was purposely released and marketed as ineffective "digital drugs": so the idea of brain frequency manipulation would lose credibility with those curious enough to learn about it.

That's my purely speculative tinfoil high thought hypothesis.

Consider that weed can be a GMO as well. That means that as they slowly allow it, they control the users of it.

I would venture to say there are more pot smoking activists then there are not. Marijuana does not make you docile it just allows you to view things in a more creative way which is usually done without violence.

Ive thought the same thing while sitting in a circle while discussing all the bs in the world realizing we stoners usually talk but never take the much needed step to change the world

lol, and that step iiiiiiis?

Focus some more bro lol. Theres more to it than pacification...

I don't know about pacification, but it's pretty awesome at demotivation. But if they just wanted to pacify and de-populate, opiates are the key. Oh, hello, Zohydro! Didn't see you there...

Just look at this "demotivated" guy right here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Rebagliati

If I was a professional snowboarder, I don't doubt that zen would make me better day-to-day, but for what I do, it doesn't work. I'm pro-legalization, but dat brain fog, mang. And schedule 1 is some kind of bullshit, it's shitloads less dangerous than alcohol, which doesn't even rate a schedule--but for what I do, pot would not be my day-to-day. It's bad enough I have a reddit and cheap champagne habit.

Weed only makes you lazy if you're lazy.

Everyone I know is lazy, I guess. :) Also, no kidding, not remembering my last sentence is not an option in my line of work. And every daily smoker I ever knew wasn't driven until they stopped smoking it daily. But like I said, I don't think it should be illegal and definitely not schedule 1.

I hear ya. I know alot of everyday tokers who are more productive than some non smokers. But I guess it all breaks down to personality type. In regards to the short term memory problems. They do exist but not in the way most people assume. The memory loss only occurs while under the influence or in heavy-duty users. A little here and there doesn't necessarily affect memory. But all that said I respect your opinion and your right to live however you see fit.

My three best friends who live in the same city as me are 100% sober. They don't drink or smoke anything. They're all lazy fucks with crap jobs and they complain all the time about how rough the job market is. It isn't the market so much as their effort level and discipline to keep pushing forward in spite of the setbacks. Weed has nothing to do with it.

I don't believe that. In fact I have a theory that reveals the opposite. We had the 70s where we experimented with drugs, and was also a time of hippies promoting "peace love and happiness"... and STDs. I believe weed amongst other drugs opened our minds where we could conceive that the government wasn't doing things in our favor. Perhaps some of these helped people have visions of the reality of what shady things the government was doing. So that's why the government started banning all the drugs.

It's been illegal since the 30's

Timing is everything

it's a controlled rollout of policy that reflects public opinion from the last twenty years. the alcohol and tobacco lobbies are among the most powerful in the country. legal weed would take a great deal of business from those industries, so while the respective titans within each get their ducks in a row and make sure they'll remain profitable after prohibition is repealed, weed will remain illegal in most states and on a federal level.

I think you may be right. I'll bet within 2 decades they decriminalize several hard drugs. I'm not saying definitely but it sure seems that way to me. Slow pacification.

There are still a lot of people in government like Ted Cruz & Chris Christie who rabidly oppose legalization.

It's sad how many halfwits I've run into who know everything about weed & nothing about more pressing matters concerning the protection of humanity.

What happens if we don't want to be "protected?"

What happens if we don't want to be "protected?"

Well someone big & scary comes to your house & beats you with a pointy stick.

On the surface it looks like they're legalizing it, and granted technically they are in a way. But what we're NOT getting is complete de-criminilazation of a harmless, and more importantly, very potent medicine. George Soros and his ilk are trying to keep things controlled, so not much of their profits go down the drain. Remember cannabis has the potential to topple many industries (plastic, fuel, pharmacological, cotton to name a few), but we won't see this done in this kind of a controlled manner, or its still decades to come.

I had to stop so I could get a job. :(

I think you are right. It's not to just pacify them by allowing new smokers, it's also the mindset of, "Hey, the government legalized it. See we are free".

Or, to medicate all the symptoms of the diseases they have released into the population.

Are you implying that all state elections are rigged? Because it was citizens who decided it was time to legalize. I'm not saying government and media doesn't do everything it can to manipulate, but they don't actually have 100% control over what happens in state referendums.

I would not have been awoken to what is happening if it were not for weed. Yet there is no free lunch. I have no desire to take action just educate and prepare for the inevitable which is nothing.and all keeps going, nothing ever changes.

Here's a stoned thought. Nothing ever happens.

Hopefully they don't start putting fluoride in our marijuanas.

Gang bangers smoke weed too.

That's what the lithium in the water is for. Also, legalization of weed doesn't lead to more people smoking it

I sometimes feel bad for the government, they just can't win.

Make weed illegal "You're just trying to keep us from opening our minds!".

Legalize weed "You're just trying to pacify us!".

Exactly. They knew there wasn't the political will to overturn it. If they had, it would have become a bigger issue, and none of the conservatives can say shit because they've been pumping States Rights for decades. It's been fun watching the domino effect as state after state begins rethinking how they deal with cannabis.

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