How do you change policy ? In the 70's it is claimed protest changed policies, but that is not really the case, it may have highlighted subjects, but it also brought with it many more government policies of restriction and illegalisation, than any it freed.

There is no doubt some illegal drugs are dangerously addictive and destructive, but this needs to be taken into context, any drug used to excess will cause problems. A simple example of this is for a person to drink ten cups of coffee.

Of all drugs, marajuana has little if any problems associated with it, unfortunately, the hippie free love culture of the 70's demonised all drugs, for the simple fact it was at that time interwoven with political issues such as the Vietnam war, and this led to government fear and the criminalisation of all drugs, and a defiant government stand which lives on today.

So how do you change policy ? Well, when debate will not even be entered into, even in the face of scientific evidence, we must use the only avenue open to us, an avenue which cannot be stopped, nature.

So i say to all growers of marajuana, cultivate seeds, lots and lots of seeds, and spread them on all fertile waste ground. A sustained and conserted effort, would force change. Spread your seeds in forests and waste ground around the country, allow nature to spread the seeds of those plants, let marajuana be the weed it is.

A case in point is the Japanese Knotweed, which has evolved in such a way as to be virtually impossible to elliminate from nature. It grows rapidly, even if you remove all traces of it, it will rapidly regrow. It is time for the cannabis plant to evolve, constantly forced with oppression, i believe cannabis plants will evolve to grow fast, develop strong deep roots, and be impossible to elliminate from the planet. This will not happen in a grow room, only in nature. We, by our own clandestine growing techniques, are preventing the evolution of the cannabis sativa and its many strains.

If there is one and only one thing we know about living organisms, it is that they adapt and change for the sole purpose of there own survival. The marajuana plant has shown time and time again its remarkable ability to adapt to its surroundings, its survival in nature will only come about by the plant strengthening its root system, like the Knotweed. The cannais plant has a root system which is designed for the hard desert like soils of Afghanistan etc, it is small and weak. Give Marajuana the opportunity to develop a strong root system, and it will spread around the country, like all common weeds. The battle which has run now for so many decades, will be a battle of futility for pompous governments who refuse to enter into any logical deate whatsoever.

We are stiffling the advancement of Marajuana plants by depriving them of there male counterpart. Give the plant its male, and it grows 10 or 14 feet high. The emphasis should not be on smaller, faster, and female only plants, this will only stop this remarkable plant from conquering the western world.

One person could change the world, one plant could change the world, if it can only be given the chance to evolve in nature. Make cannabis an unstoppable knotweed freight train, and the plant itself will emerge victorious.

Well said and thought, for now on all my males go outside to live.

well according to the US CDC< Feral hemp is 95% OF ALL CANNABIS interdicted by law enforcement. The plants growing randomly just ensure they have budgets, helicoptors, FLIR, and will continue to pull out cannabis on OVERTIME, for huge money.

It's not how to win, how to win is to get all of your friends and family to march with you on Washington. Until those who don't use cannabis support our cause of personal liberty, we won't be anything but an excuse for cops to shoot dogs and kick in doors of innocent people.

You know its weird, its seems that every time we get one step closer to legalizing we get pushed back 2 steps, it doesn't seem like anything we do will ever help, we can have all the research and scientific claims, but the powers above us just put there hands over there ears and go "La La La La" I cant hear you, they tell us lie's and try to explain the reason why is shouldn't be legal, but we all know that's just a lie. They tell us we live in a free country, they say "the people are in control" but we all know thats not true

I've heard that before Mikey. What a scam eh.

But then most of what the cops/feds etc do is a scam too.

i really dont think anything will work-maybe its the method of delivery that needs to change-just a random thought. i wonder if a group or team has polled folks to see if they smoke,or would they smoke if legal. found out what it adds up to in poundage for the survey area,applied a tax rate to it-one set of rates for buying,one set for selling,one rate for growing,one rate for non consuption useage.make a demo tape,chart to show how it can be taxed,1 to show its profitability.and 1 to show how we can apply the current tobacco/alcohol rules and age limits on it.-its seems like a 180 turn around from the ways being used now.im interested to see if a tax system could sway the voter-along with small add ins to show how it will lower crime,free up prisons,save taxpayers the burdon of more tax-ahhhh just a idea that keeps me wondering

Its all good ideas, how do you plan to implement any or all of them? I'm always willing to be a sounding board for activists and activism.

i still dont think any of that will work, unless every state gets in and just legalizes marijuana then pressures the feds to make it legal we might have a chance, but what are the chances that every state would do this and if they did will the feds really make it legal or would they think "this will triple our budget and put millions more in jail and really show that marijuana is dangerous"

Its the people who have to act, educate, legislate, and demonstrate, to get the law changed, state by state. Since 99% of all cannabis arrests are at the State and local level, there really is little point even engaging the federal government at this point.

They are bought and paid for by the BIG PHARMA< Law enforcement, private prison industry, and of course, the Cartels.

As Michigan, and several other states have shown, in a state with Citizens initiative process, we can get laws passed, and changed.


And that's not the end of the process, its just the beginning.

i hope so, i hope the states step up and the people get out there and vote yes to stop the war on "marijuana" i hope people actually get out there and do it and not just sit around