Marijuana Policy Project/MPP strategic plan for this year

[bobthedrummer]

http://www.mpp.org/2005plan/

[Dez]

1. Great!

Let's educate some people about cannabis, and stop this bloody war.

[bobthedrummer]

2. There's pending mandatory minimum legislation being promoted by

Republicans that will result in 5 year sentences for a joint.

[Dez]

3. I read that last night..

Let's see how many politicians ok that. Some of them wont be happy until they have the death penalty for cannabis!

[seemslikeadream]

4. "Marijuana religion", wat would that be? you might ask...

Well, for one, nothing new. Marijuana has been used in religious rituals by many cultures since the beginning of human kind.

Marijuana, has been, and still is, a Holy plant in many cultures on all the continents that it grows on, and it grows in nearly every continent on our beautifull planet, and in nearly every country. Tradition in India maintains that the gods sent man the Hemp plant so that he might attain delight, courage, and have heightened sexual desires. When nectar or Amrita dropped down from heaven, Marijuana sprouted from it. Another story tells how, when the gods, helped by demons, churned the milk ocean to obtain Amrita, one of the resulting nectars was Marijuana. It was consecrated to Shiva and was Indra’s favourite drink.
After the churning of the ocean, demons attempted to gain control of Amrita, but the gods were able to prevent this seizure, giving Marijuana the name Vijaya (“victory”) to commemorate their success. Ever since, this plant of the gods has been held in India to bestow supernatural powers on its users.

Marijuana played a major role in every religion in the Old World from the dawn of civilization until the Dark Ages when its sacramental use was prohibited by Emperor Theodosius of the Holy Roman Empire. Today multitudes are rediscovering the spiritual virtues of this most useful of all plants.


http://www.thc-ministry.net/cannabis-religion.html

[bobthedrummer]

5. I like that picture!

:P

[Dez]

6. Thomas Jefferson liked herb too! n/t

[seemslikeadream]

11. america, cannabis and freedom

While in France, Thomas Jefferson placed himself in harm’s way when he paid some Turkish spies to help him smuggle prized hemp seeds out of China. The Chinese had developed the very best strains of hemp for every use, paper, fabrics, food, and more. They treasured the seeds so highly, they made it illegal to export, punishable by death.

But Jefferson, by the grace of the Goddess, got them past customs, and distributed them among those farmers who sided for independence. After harvest and retting, they used Thomas Jefferson’s design of the hemp brake. Specifically made to separate the woody hurd from the fibers, quicker. Benjamin Franklin was then given the excess hemp pulp and intern oversaw it’s conversion into paper using hydrogen peroxide and lime, as whitening agents. This relatively unknown act was responsible for freeing the American press. We never again had to justify our paper. We became independent and sovereign. All the drafts of the US Constitution were written on it. Later, President Thomas Jefferson honored hemp in a letter, suggesting hemp was the one single element which sustained America’s freedom and independence, both on land and at sea.
http://www.digitalhemp.com/


MA: the ancient Chinese character for “hemp,”
depicts a male and female plant under a
roof - Cannabis inside the house of human culture.
A single species answering to two such
different desires - the spiritual and material.
http://www.wholife.com/issues/9_6/04_article.html

[sweetheart]

7. odd that nobody challenges cannabis based on the 1st amendment

Indeed it is a sacred plant, that when taken with reverence towards the
profound mystery of life, can be an excellent aid in the process of
awakening. It seems, freedom of religion is not.

[Dez]

9. I think that's been done,

but not successfully.

[sweetheart]

10. Do you know why?

Why is it not successful to have a religious tradition of thousands of
years? What perversion of the first amendment is in force that
such a challenge is denied?

[Ironpost]

8. Nice looking bud

Haven't grown any in years. Nothing prettier than a foxtail in the fall.

[SHRED]

12. Again

Industrial hemp for tax revenues and legalization of pot but NO COMMERCIALIZATION of pot. Keep it in the hands of the people and out of the 7-11's and corporate whores.
Besides: Let people grow it and the prices will drop to outrageously low levels making commercial ventures risky at best.

[Jamison]

13. I hope so...

"Let people grow it and the prices will drop to outrageously low levels making commercial ventures risky at best."

That would be nice b/c an ounce around these parts is getting to be outrageous.

[sweetheart]

15. How is that done?

Do you set a limit on the number of plants someone can have before it
becomes a "commercial grow" operation?

It does indeed seem, like alcohol, that really minors should not be
doing cannabis. IN this regard, likely it should be regulated similarly
to alcohol/spirits. Then similarly, a no-advertizing rule should likely
exist that we are not selling our less healthful vices.

I was thinkin' that perhaps another way to approach the matter would be
to have certain suppliers empowered to sell over the internet, and to
not license ANY retail presence. In this way, a culture could allow its
cannabis smokers to get legal, clean, regulated dosages without putting
it in the corner shop.

Growing cannabis, like growing anything, is for green thumbs, with the
time, space and wherewithal to do such things. Surely most cannabis
smokers would rather simply buy some than bother with all that.

I could easily see an internet shop able to sell smaller dosages as well,
that more compulsive smokers could just buy a gram or two, much like
a bottle of wine, rather than an ounce, that is more like a case of wine.

That the illegal market keeps people from smaller amounts all is part
of the problem. The claim to have studied that some people prone to
pschosis are more likely to have mental problems later in life having
used cannabis. Such studies though, leave out that they have no idea
what the exact dosages are that people are taking... bunk science to
support the republicanisms. Gosh it pains me that millions of people
are driven to take unknown dosages, all grown and sold through a
climate of fear (from the "man" and his "prisons"), and perhaps this
underworld of fear and illegality affects the aura of the weed that is
smoked, and further inclines smokers towards feeling that paranoia.

I like your thinking, but i'd wager that commerical weed would blossom
in to a market much more like specialty wines... and home growers
would never really amount to much, just as home-brewers are not really
a threat to the beer industry.

[Discord]

14. Nice, glad to hear they are proposing

several agressive plans to overturn long overdue criminalization of marijuana.

[sweetheart]

16. Cannabis prohibition is enslavement

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x2852