It's almost like beating a dead horse. You want to here something really sad? My dad is 66 yrs old and smoked in the 60's and he still smokes to this day and so do his senior friends. I was hanging out and smoking with them one night and we were talking about the things that we are talking about now. And, my heart kinda sunk when all of them just looked down and shook their heads and said..."son, we've already tried that and we found that people just got defensive when you brought it up and no one will jump on your band wagon. People just blindly fallow what ever the government says and that they will never budge!" If people are not kept up to date on the good that it dose via the media then we are never going to see it. People need a fresh prospective and enlightenment for this to really work, no matter how many letters you send. The general public needs awareness and re-education before we can proceed. What it will take is a general guideline of proof backed facts of the safe new delivery systems, cures that have been found, they need to know how the laws will read about legalization and for adult's only and how we will even help them get deadly drugs off the street....The people have to made aware...PERIOD!!!
Your right HF, money talks! Thing about it is, I don't see the 1 chapter we have here doing anything. No rallies, no advertising, no getting out and talking to people, nothing! It's as if they don't even believe in the cause...they just want everyone to send them money. I'm not sure how much I even trust this NORML chapter. They are based out of a big collage university so maybe they are just trying to get tuitions payed for...who knows but, I'll say this...I'm not sending a dime to an unproductive cause. I will make my own fliers and hand them out on my own before I waste a donation. Maybe it doesn't work like that but it sure appears that way from the out side looking in. All I do know is that, the word needs to be spread...period! I still think a letter with all the latest facts should be circulated. In fact I will even start a rough draft my self and run it by y'all for tweaking if you think it would help. Maybe it's just a pipe dream I have but, I just hate to let even a remote chance of legalization slip away. The issue has to be pushed before it will ever happen. They will never do it without support.
Thats not my forte', I make a much better soldier. I've never been a good salesman. I have joined them, but they never seem to do anything productive. I have plans on drafting a letter and making fliers and at least that will be a contribution to the cause. I just hate wasting money on them when they are not planning any productive actions. It seems that with the development of these new bills that they would be champing at the bit to make a stand if they were serious. I mean, they want your money, but are not showing any signs of using it to help the cause. We used to have a smoke out in Atl. every year but that seems like it's a thing of the past now. I wish I could talk my wife into moving to a more MJ friendly state but she doesn't even smoke it so she want budge. She doesn't mind that I do it though because she knows how stressed I get without it. I mainly use it for stress management and anxiety which was made worse after moving here to this forken rat race. I'm just a good ol southern country boy and all this fast paced bullshit drives me nuts. Maybe I'll do my homework and try and find out just what my NORML chapter is actually doing with the money. Seems a little fishy to me tho. I'll say this...I will burn them down if I find out they are just funding their own tuitions with it!
