Hey Shortys6934, you better enjoy your free ride as a lowlife. As soon as weed is made legal, and it will be soon enough, your ass gonna be givin handjobs to crackheads for bus fare.
I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but it is highly unlikely marijuana will become legal any time soon (10 years or more). It SHOULD be legal, but unfortunately it is still political suicide for a serious political candidate seeking any meaningful office to support legalization.
Unless supporting a political idea can raise a lot of money
and votes for a politician, supporting that idea publicly becomes a detriment for them. Especially when their opponent will immediately label them "SOFT ON CRIME!". I know that is total BS, but it's a political reality how politicians distort the truth to discredit their opponents. Think off all the negative political ads you've seen, and then then imagine the inevitable commercial saying "Politician X wants to let millions of drug dealers and addicts out on the street...how many of them will move into YOUR neighborhood with your children?" or some crap like that. LOL
For every one vote potentially gained by supporting marijuana law reform (with the possible exception of medical marijuana), any mainstream candidate will lose
more than one vote from the conservative voting base. Even worse, the only significant amount of political money to be gained from supporting marijuana law reform would have to come from the dealers (not the users) - and the serious dealers don't WANT this law reform, because legalization would lower prices and literally decimate their current profit margins.
Think about it: How much money have you and all your potsmoking friends together donated to support a politician? Now compare that to the religious groups and how much they donate to the politicians who support their causes. Then watch the media and see how many TV shows and how many mainstream news stories support recreational marijuana in any way shape or form. When recreational marijuana is mentioned at all, it is
always with negative connotations. That is the public opinion we are hoping will somehow affect the change we desire, but when you analyze the situation
honestly, you can clearly see how unlikely that is to happen any time soon.
Support for medical marijuana is making some strides forward, and that is something I guess - but you pretty much have to be on death's door to get any benefit from that. That's great for those unfortunate people, but it doesn't help the rest of us directly at all. Maybe after 10-20 years of the world becoming familiar with those patients and seeing how MJ helped them, it will gradually shift public opinion enough to support other law reforms, but by then (according to statistics) most CURRENT users will not
care about smoking pot anymore. Statistically, 80% of recreational MJ is used by people 12-30 years old, so in 10-20 years most of you will no longer be in that demographic.
Essentially, politics caters primarily to the wealthy and influential people in society - and that segment of society just doesn't care enough about the legalization of MJ in the current social environment to enable political change. It's sad and disappointing, but it's true.
i think this is an amazing idea, plan to try it myself hopefully ill be smokin good
