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FurrowedBrow said:
Stoners have a bad wrap.  But I think it's generally true.  We need more professional pot heads.  Like myself.  People that hold down a job in a professional industry who regularly smoke pot.  The problem is that all the professional potheads have to take a drug test - so they aren't open about their use OR their opinions on it.  for fear that they may be asked to submit to a random test.  The people who don't give a fuck and don't contribute shit to society aren't helping our cause.  They aren't people that can tell you everything about cannabis like im sure most of us here can.  Educated and responsible users are the ones who are going to make a difference here, INSPITE of the stoners.  I don't hang out with any stoners and I really haven't had stoner friends since high school.  end of rant.

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FurrowedBrow said:
Stoners have a bad wrap.  But I think it's generally true.  We need more professional pot heads.  Like myself.  People that hold down a job in a professional industry who regularly smoke pot.  The problem is that all the professional potheads have to take a drug test - so they aren't open about their use OR their opinions on it.  for fear that they may be asked to submit to a random test.  The people who don't give a fuck and don't contribute shit to society aren't helping our cause.  They aren't people that can tell you everything about cannabis like im sure most of us here can.  Educated and responsible users are the ones who are going to make a difference here, INSPITE of the stoners.  I don't hang out with any stoners and I really haven't had stoner friends since high school.  end of rant.

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I kinda agree, I mean there are super lazy potheads (I know some). I think another problem though is I know some people that aren't lazy though, just put themselves in a negative stereotype. I think it's important for anyone for the legalization to speak out, there are enough of us that in a few years we will get it passed. The problem is the more people just don't make a stand because some people think it will never be legal. The longer these people wait, the longer it will take to get passed though. What is going to be key though, is once it becomes legal. Those of us that are experienced in it's use and how to control it are going to have to make sure the new users keep it under control.

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Even if you don't want to go out of your way to support legalization just rock a legalize weed shirt every once n a while, people will realize what's up...

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RasJeph said:
Yeah, 16 year olds often don't know what the fuck they are talking about

If I had a dollar for every person that thought I was a piece of shit/preached to me about doing drugs in my freshman year of high school, and then in my senior year bought a sack from me or half of my buddies adderall script I'd be a rich man.

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FurrowedBrow said:
Stoners have a bad wrap.  But I think it's generally true.  We need more professional pot heads.  Like myself.  People that hold down a job in a professional industry who regularly smoke pot.  The problem is that all the professional potheads have to take a drug test - so they aren't open about their use OR their opinions on it.  for fear that they may be asked to submit to a random test.  The people who don't give a fuck and don't contribute shit to society aren't helping our cause.  They aren't people that can tell you everything about cannabis like im sure most of us here can.  Educated and responsible users are the ones who are going to make a difference here, INSPITE of the stoners.  I don't hang out with any stoners and I really haven't had stoner friends since high school.  end of rant.

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DungenessDank said:
Unity is something our modern sick culture has lost. They have squashed the revolution by making us care more about what new cellphone is coming next than what the future has in store for mankind.

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psyberpunk said:
Some people are good at lobbying and that's what they want to do, but how far as the legalization movement really come if they've been trying to legalize it since the 70s and it's not legal yet? Obviously the professionals are willing to take your donations, but they're not getting the job done. It's time to put NORML's balls to the fire and ask for some fucking progress. I wouldn't be surprised if they're putting forth this lackluster effort because it is more profitable for them if marijuana remains illegal.

Similarly, Medical Marijuana growers in Humboldt and Mendocino voted down Proposition 219, saying, "Our elitist clique of providers gets to grow marijuana, but the rest of you should go to jail." As soon as someone gets theirs, they forget about everyone else. This is how professionals are. They will sell you out and hide at home smoking their kind buds while others go to jail. Real communities are built off the rest of us. Those same lazy stoners often show up to protest in person when their dispensaries are raided, while the growers hide at home like cowards. It takes all kinds.

There must be unity, but there are weak, pathetic losers in the movement who sell the rest of us out by suppressing their principles. Professionals have already sold out to the system and they're more than willing to do it again. I see the same thing happening in the environmental movement with large organizations like Greenpeace signing deals with timber companies.

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