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Title: Thousands enjoy a puff of pot to celebrate 4/20
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-04-20 21:51:18
Canadian

[Public_Domain]

[coaster_dot]

Yeah, 4-20 was a pretty good day. I also got a lot of stuff done for school.

[Choban]

Just a regular day,

[Yogi]

What a bunch of morons. Gathering in a public place to collectively break the law sure shows their level of maturity!

[DerbyX]

No. Unjust laws deserve to be protested and fought even sometimes by breaking them. Farmers out west went to jail in order to protest the Wheat Board. I think their "crime" was selling grain directly to the states. Others got themselves arrested protesting the gun registry utilizing a symbolic tool, in this case it was the bare minimum of the guts of a firearm.

This is a good thing.

[Yogi]

Personally, I don't use but don't see anything wrong with weed as compared to alcohol. However, legalization is a political hot potatoe which no one is going to go near any time soon. Such antics are actually counter-productive because as a rule the law doesn't bother with 'personal possession', but when it is thrown in the cops faces they are left with little alternative. Continued lobbying and as more people who believe in legalization actually get involved and become 'politicians' is the sensible approach. In the meantime folks can continue to 'fly under the radar' with little or no repercussions.

[romanP]

Yogi Yogi:

What a bunch of morons. Gathering in a public place to collectively break the law sure shows their level of maturity!

If it were farmers bearing their rifles in protest of the gun registry, would you say the same thing?

[commanderkai]

Something happened yesterday? Must of missed it.

[DerbyX]

Yogi Yogi:

Personally, I don't use but don't see anything wrong with weed as compared to alcohol. However, legalization is a political hot potatoe which no one is going to go near any time soon. Such antics are actually counter-productive because as a rule the law doesn't bother with 'personal possession', but when it is thrown in the cops faces they are left with little alternative. Continued lobbying and as more people who believe in legalization actually get involved and become 'politicians' is the sensible approach. In the meantime folks can continue to 'fly under the radar' with little or no repercussions.

Except that these people want it to be legalized and are working towards that goal. Its fine for the police to adopt an unofficial policy of not charging folks only caught with a small amount like a few grams but in the end people don't want to take the chance.

[romanP]

Yogi Yogi:

Personally, I don't use but don't see anything wrong with weed as compared to alcohol. However, legalization is a political hot potatoe which no one is going to go near any time soon.

Government will waffle and waste even more time not paying attention to the issue if nobody talks or does anything about it.

$1:

Such antics are actually counter-productive because as a rule the law doesn't bother with 'personal possession'

Yes they do, it happens all the time. Two years ago, when it rained on 4/20 and few people showed up at Major's Hill Park or Parliament Hill, five people got arrested for possession.

$1:

Continued lobbying and as more people who believe in legalization actually get involved and become 'politicians' is the sensible approach.

It is one approach. But we can't all be politicians.

[Yogi]

romanP romanP:

Yogi Yogi:

What a bunch of morons. Gathering in a public place to collectively break the law sure shows their level of maturity!

If it were farmers bearing their rifles in protest of the gun registry, would you say the same thing?

YES!

[romanP]

Yogi Yogi:

romanP romanP:

Yogi Yogi:

What a bunch of morons. Gathering in a public place to collectively break the law sure shows their level of maturity!

If it were farmers bearing their rifles in protest of the gun registry, would you say the same thing?

YES!

Why? How should people protest, if not by demonstration?

[Yogi]

Yogi Yogi:

Continued lobbying and as more people who believe in legalization actually get involved and become 'politicians' is the sensible approach. In the meantime folks can continue to 'fly under the radar' with little or no repercussions.

[romanP]

romanP romanP:

It is one approach. But we can't all be politicians.