US Billboards - Marijuana Legalization
- Thread starter HippieMan
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how bout something like this?
$ 10-14 BILLION - could be saved by legalizing marijuana each year
$ 6.2 BILLION - could be gained by imposing similar taxes to alcohol and tobacco
738,916 - # of people arrested for simple possession of marijuana in 2006
What the fuck is the goverment thinking? You decide. Legalize.
JohnnyBravo
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I'm over it nowI seriously apoligize to you Johnny if you lost work...I'm sorry
Seamaiden
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That's very generous of you, and considering what my husband just told me tonight, you're probably correct about the finances.
My oldest son is autistic (high functioning, like yourself). Bipolar disorder, OCD, Tourette's (youngest boy is Tourette's, before he was diagnosed I thought everyone twitched and ticced), schizophrenia, and clinical depression all run in my family. We are tweaked.
Billboards are a start, but we really need more of a lobby presence, to be honest. Lobbyists will cost anywhere from $1500/month on up, depending on how much or hard they lobby, etcetera. The lobby is where the real action happens.
panhead
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For who,would your mother or father know of this,pretty doubtfull,basic computer knowledge is not composed of how to escape goofy shit jumping from all 4 corners of your screen when you try to close it out.Dude...serioiusly...that's basic computer knowledge (no offense
).
Im not trying to argue this point any longer but dont make it out like other people are stupid or lacking some how because they dont know about this kind of stupid shit.
You younger guy's should realize that there are people here who were alive before tv was around let alone a computer,our "basic knowledge" is not your basic knowledge.
ToastedFox
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"Fight Terrorism, buy homegrown! Support Legalization"
Seamaiden
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I knew there would be others.
Why'd ya change your avatar? I liked the V-twin.
(Not that this one's bad, I just have a fondness.)
Seamaiden
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I'm not smoking. Pass that shit ovah to here.geez guys you seem no fun to smoke with. All serious and shit I thought it was funny and I was just playing with my posts. whatever happened to?
edit:accept for Johnny cause he lost work, he can be pissed
But back to my point, what type of billboard do you guys think would be best? Stastics are good sometimes to put things into reality and it's easy to see the bigger picture when you use a sequence of statistics like that. People will see the numbers and there is no denying numbers. I think some sort of picture comparison may also be good as some people drive by billboards and never read them, but a picture is harder to miss. A phrase wouldn't do much since you're not doing some sort of national campaign with the phrase.
panhead
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Yeah i saw your sled,sweetI knew there would be others.
Why'd ya change your avatar? I liked the V-twin.
The reason i changed it was that another member (MRSMcgreggor) photoshopped a pic of my monster bud & i thought it was pretty creative & an original idea on her part,im not photo shop skilled so i got a kick out of her work,i made it my screen saver on my work pc as well.
Seamaiden
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Thank ye. She got extra fixed up after I was rear-ended last September by a kid in a truck. Why go stock if aftermarket costs the same, right?Yeah i saw your sled,sweet
Noice.
I'm not PhotoShop skilled, either. I have a copy a friend burned, but no God damned key. Wait a minute, you grew that thing? It's REAL??
I could hook you up with the key 
... in a few days lol
... in a few days lolThank ye. She got extra fixed up after I was rear-ended last September by a kid in a truck. Why go stock if aftermarket costs the same, right?
Noice.
Wait a minute, you grew that thing? It's REAL??
Seamaiden
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Charfizcool
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oops lol I hogged it all...you can have a few roaches
*e-passes it*
Seamaiden
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E-passes...oops lol I hogged it all...you can have a few roaches
I'm so desperate, I'mma take me an e-hit right cha he-ah!Back to the topic at hand, though. I'm not kidding about the importance of the lobby. That would be SO much more effective than putting up billboards, and it would reach the right people (the ones who actually make the laws on a state and federal level). It's expensive, but it works. Just look at the fucking digital television signal conversion fiasco for a primer on the effectiveness of the lobby. Or, if you really wanna get pissed off about something, search AARP lobby. FUCK if that doesn't chap my hide!
How many lobbyist would it take to make a difference, Seamaiden?
(And that blows about your kids, a total bummer. I wasn't high functioning until I tried cannabis. I was mostly the quiet kid that never talked to anyone.)
1500/month is not a lot. I could sell my car (which I hate and never drive) and hire 20 for a month, to put it into perspective.
(And that blows about your kids, a total bummer. I wasn't high functioning until I tried cannabis. I was mostly the quiet kid that never talked to anyone.)
1500/month is not a lot. I could sell my car (which I hate and never drive) and hire 20 for a month, to put it into perspective.
metagrower
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Also, I think we should start calling it "cannabis" instead of "marijuana" in the states. Currently "Marijuana" has a negative stigma to it, and we need to change this image. We can't take back the word marijuana. We need to use another word that people can identify with weed, without having a negative connotation attached to it. Cannabis fits this bill I think.
For real. People need to ask themselves, "How does cannabis prohibition differ from alcohol prohibition?"
"Should the government tell me how my garden grows?"
I also think that we need to promote the healthier ways of using cannabis: cooking and vaporizing.
Like a cancer research style commercial. We need to tug on heartstrings. We need to have puppy dogs and all that crap.
You know those "truth" ads? We should start our own "truth" campaign.
Some of this misinformation is just getting silly and I am getting fed up with it. I intend in the near future to begin coming up with my own ads and animations. We'll see...