Your lives will be much better for those of you who watch Faux News if you simply turn that TV off. If you hear any crazy ass stories from the shivering, huddled, unwashed masses, just do some simple research to debunk 90% of the junk, then realize that of the remaining 9% you can really only change 1% and that involves getting off the couch to go talk to your representatives. If I am a representative and I hear the bitches and complaints of 99 problem making asshats but there is that 1 beacon of sanity... Who is the majority? Who do you have to listen to? The ONE person who makes sense, or "the masses" who you have a duty and obligation to listen to and represent.
The country is not shit. We The People are letting the bad corporate entities take our country to shit and split it apart overseas. I represent that one beacon of sanity because I AM talking to officials and people who write the laws and I know how they feel. I promise you if we worked as hard at getting our "rights" and "liberties" back as GE lobbies to avoid tax... or if we worked as hard at telling our Senators, Representatives, Council-members, and Commissioners our real condition and how to solve the problems as we do at attempting to push more Trichome production or figure out what is wrong with our plants... Well we would get somewhere now, wouldn't we? It comes down to a matter of priorities.
Hell, when I was unemployed I hung around my local government area. I had nothing better to do than to just sit online wasting time. So when I was doing unemployment search I figured I would waste some of their time on my wasted time since I am paying taxes and not receiving much at all in return. You know, grab the bull by its horns. Instead, I actually used my time wisely. I got to know the local Commissioners there, the Property Valuation Office, went and checked out the huge vault of record, blah blah blah... I networked and talked to all the old ladies and everyone in a suit behind a desk I could. Sure I annoyed the majority of them; I wanted to. Of course I wasted a bunch of my time, but I was going to waste it anyway. I actually networked and represented some of the issues that locality faced, and the city started to put attention toward these things.
Could other people have been talking to them about the same things and I was the one to bring balance to the force? Was I that one extra gram that made the teeter-totter give way to social remedies? Or was I the lone voice that stood out from the crowd and instead of complaining offered several solutions to the issues I was frustrated with? Could I have been ONE person that made things happen?
Who knows. All that matters is action. The TV is here to scare you. Hell, doesn't even Faux News tell you this? Take whatever fears you have and turn it into power. The only real power someone or something has over you is the power you give them/it. Suggested reading: The Power of Choice - Break Out of Your Personal Prison. I had the opportunity to meet and hear this man's story and talk at length with him. He was in Chikurubi Max Security Prison in Zimbabwe for 12 years 8 months.
Break Free. The majority of people support Marijuana consumption, and as more people show their solidarity, more people will feel like it is OK to come out of the shadows. Though I really don't suggest you do it as flagrantly as numbskulls here in Colorado do. I have seen with my own eyes a knucklehead pack a bowl in the middle of Denver sidewalk and light up in public as a cop was standing outside of his vehicle on the other side of the street. You CAN be arrested for that but some people are just ignorant. When Amendment 64 passed, there was a long long long line out of every dispensary for the first couple of days. How many of them do you think were Medical patients? Not many. How many were locals? Probably less than a quarter. There were so many waves and waves of tourists, mostly from Texas, Kansas, Illinois, and Florida. Now, if you go by the thousands of colored pins stuck into the maps that most dispensaries have posted, you can really see what I am talking about.
Teetotalers may become extinct soon. Sorry for the excessive post. I just want you guys to help me and get the rest of the United States get on board so we no longer have to have these discussions!
I can recall sitting in jail during the 1970's. The legalize mj debate was on
