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- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -2/+64*insert generic legalization of marijuana comment here in the millionth marijuana article on digg in a month*
we get it. let's start walking instead of talking. - Genrre, on 03/06/2009, -6/+39There are now 4 marijuana related articles on the front page. I approve.
- chinaman1212, on 03/06/2009, -6/+37Hey look! yet another marijuana story on diggs front page.
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -5/+301. Toss excess pot seeds into nature this Spring.
2. Keep doing so until grass is abundant and unmanageable.
3. Watch how the government responds.
4. ??????
5. Legalize and/or profit. - nullx42, on 03/06/2009, -2/+24your syntax is all wrong, dude. That means you stopped agreeing.
- woofers07, on 03/06/2009, -4/+24I don't care that there's a "legalize marijuana" article on Digg everyday. Keep it up. I don't smoke pot anymore, but I think for the good of the economy and the country it needs to be legalized. If it annoys you ignore it, not that hard.
- bjwest, on 03/06/2009, -3/+21Yes we do. You, however, have the option of not joining in if you don't like it.
- Wosat, on 03/06/2009, -1/+16FTA: "No one here in New York uses this drug marijuana. We have only just heard about it from down in the Southwest, but we had better prohibit its use before it gets here. Otherwise all the heroin and hard narcotics addicts … and all the alcohol drinkers … will substitute this new and unknown drug marijuana."
Heroin and other hard drug users switching to marijuana? That would be terrible! /s - d2cole, on 03/06/2009, -7/+21Legalize it.
- killahwhale, on 03/06/2009, -4/+17MORE POT STORIES.
- Vaiper, on 03/05/2009, -9/+21/agree
Legalize? - nullx42, on 03/06/2009, -1/+12Because we forget about it day to day.
- nullx42, on 03/06/2009, -0/+10Fine, digg me down. W3C would like to have a word with you.
- solidcube, on 03/06/2009, -3/+13US pot laws are the definition of NUTSO. Fascist, really. They're a relic of police state ***** from the 1930s. Couldn't prohibit alcohol, so they decided to criminalize some fun that blacks and mexicans had.
Now everyone wants that fun. ***** you, Anslinger. - keyforce, on 03/06/2009, -0/+10Because the prohibition of marijuana has affected many peoples lives very negatively.
That tends to make people care. - redgiemental, on 03/06/2009, -5/+14The pathetic-ness of the governing system makes me want to both laugh and weep.
- Eqxy, on 03/06/2009, -1/+10Yes we do. We would make no progress towards achieving our goal if we simply asked for it to be legalized, got a "no" and simply gave up. Keep pressing the issue until law makers realize it's important to enough people to make some changes.
- mileswj, on 03/06/2009, -9/+18As long as you cant smoke marijuana in public, ill be fine with it being legal.
I dont want to see/smell a bunch of idiots just toking up while im around them, its rude. - solidcube, on 03/06/2009, -0/+9Yes, until it's legal and then we can stop.
It's a pity that Kevin Rose has you tied in a chair in an experimental theatre with Clockwork Orange clips holding your eyes open, and is forcing you to read these stories. - solidcube, on 03/06/2009, -0/+8Might want to take a look in the US prison system where hundreds of thousands of nonviolent offenders are housed in horrible conditions at taxpayer expense for "crimes" that don't hurt anybody "LOL"
- InferiorWang, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7You don't understand how cannabis cultivation works.
Hemp is grown close together and uses a phenotype specialized for thicker stalks (for more plant fiber) with no care given to the psychotropic substances that may be present. Since the plants are grown close together and the male plants are never pulled, there is a lot of pollen produced and the females are able to produce a lot of seeds.
When grown for recreational use, care is usually given to produce seedless bud or sensimilla. When the plant doesn't produce seeds, it puts all of its energy into growing nice big buds that it hopes will capture pollen and produces a bunch of resin to protect itself from the environment. Seedy bud is never as "good" because the plant spent its energy growing seeds instead of growing more potent.
Cannabis grown for consumption is also selectively crossed and bred for potency, flavor, grow characteristics, etc. Hemp fields can also be semi-selectively crossed with seeds from the most favorable fields used as the primary source for next years crop. Seed distributors be also be able to produce stable or fairly stable strains just as they have with our other crops.
The real kicker here is that "marijuana" and "hemp" are both cannabis and interbreed. The two have been bred for different traits, but are still the same plant. You /could/ cross pot with hemp, but it wouldn't be beneficial to either purpose. In areas where hemp was farmed heavily, recreational plants would likely be tainted with hemp pollen unless extreme care was taken to isolate the plants. Hemp, would be as likely to be tainted since most growers pull the males to keep their own females from being pollinated.
Hemp is not illegal because it looks like marijuana. Hemp is illegal because it IS marijuana.
As for hemp being worthless, I guess you've never heard that hemp is more durable than cotton. It has 3 times the tensile strength as cotton. The word canvas is derived from cannabis. It was used for years on ships for rope and sails because it lasted longer than any other natural material in the salty sea water. Did you know half of all pesticides in the US are used on cotton fields, while hemp fields would require virtually no pesticides? Did you know that hemp paper lasts longer and is cheaper to produce than wood-pulp paper on the same scale? Did you know that hemp paper can be recycles five times more than traditional paper before it becomes unusable?
As for the edibility, cannabis seeds contain all the amino acids essential for human life, and in the right proportions. It contains the essential fatty acids Omega-3, 6, and 9. No nutritional value my ass. Cannabis seeds have a protein value of 35% which is higher than most nuts. As for the taste, I have to disagree. Don't mistake your tastes with reality. - MrPatriotMan, on 03/06/2009, -1/+8I will smoke to that!
- solidcube, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7You have to understand though that Digg users are loudmouths. People here aren't just posting here, we're posting in dozens (hundreds?) of other places as well. This is a game of meme engineering. By keeping the subject at the forefront here, we increase its mindshare and get people talking about it.
Ever have your grandmother send you a link to something made at SomethingAwful or 4Chan? If so, you've understood the horrible power of memes.
Pot legalization is very much like a ball that's rolling downhill. Even five years ago, there was far less public discourse about it one way or another. It was a taboo subject. By talking about it, we break the taboo and we can get the "infection" into other peoples' minds as well.
Many people who read Digg every day are also SEO mavens. - DivineLies, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6touche...
- AladinSane, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7Just move to Santa Cruz then. People there smoke as freely as they want, and as long as they're not literally carting a 6-foot water bong down the street with them, NOBODY cares.
- flyingsquirle, on 03/06/2009, -2/+8Imagine if the people on digg, those who support the legalization of Marijuana, all joined together and walked on Congress or the White House, asking for action!
Now... if we could set that up somehow.... - inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6They gave cannabis a faux spanish name in order to link it to the dirty mexicans, who smoked before they took 8 hours long siestas instead of working like real Americans.
- BlacklabelSAR, on 03/06/2009, -1/+6I don't like fat people in public, it's just rude...
- BankFailure, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5and the congregation said...
"AMEN!"
ps - law makers, legalize the ***** plant already. - jmac9, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5 Even law enforcement is backing the end of prohibition: www.leap.cc
Contact SAFER in Colorado and Norml in Washington DC -
yes, write your Congress members so they keep hearing that our large voting block is on them to get this prohibition wiped out.
Ask that they revisit and pass HR 5843, legislation to end the federal prohibition.
Use this link to find your Congress members and flood them with emails:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html
Why its so important to end the prohibition against cannabis-marijuana:
The Bush/Cheney abuses of illegal wiretaps, invasion of privacy, denial of constitutional rights to a fair trial, destruction of other civil liberties, seizure of personal assets,
all had there beginnings in the failed "war on drugs".
Billions of taxpayer money continue to be wasted on government intrusion into adult decision and adult responsibility.
The gangs of the streets to the international criminals are fed by American prohibition.
As we saw with the end of alcohol prohibition, criminal profits disappear overnight when prohibition is ended. - flyingsquirle, on 03/06/2009, -0/+5Thats what they said about
Women voting
Minorities voting
Alcohol (during the prohibition)
AND
MARIJUANA (medicinal of course) - ketkut, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4in Holland its legal and nothing wrong with that, it didnt increase the number of narcotic users at all...
- plaeground, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5Or mix your extra pot seeds with bird seed and let nature do the hard work of spreading it around.
- d2cole, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5digg's *
it's possessive - TomGfromCanada, on 03/06/2009, -5/+9Derrrrr, like we didn't know.
- Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4It certainly gives ample room for people to complain about it.
- Frankyfan3, on 03/06/2009, -2/+6There's a time and a place.
http://hempfest.org/drupal/ - Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4Oh yes, making rational arguments backed by citable studies is complete lunacy!
/s - flyingsquirle, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5I agree, if I can trade worrying about cops arresting me and losing all credibility with just smoking inside, then that would be cool
- depro9, on 03/06/2009, -2/+6Bad laws should be broken as much as possible. Remember that one law we had on the books saying we could enslave humans or Jim Crow "laws"? Stand up for your rights!
- leamanc, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4No, that was the Blueberry Kool-Aid.
- fety, on 03/06/2009, -1/+5"Give one of these Mexican beet field workers a couple of puffs on a marijuana cigarette and he thinks he is in the bullring at Barcelona."
Mexicans in Barcelona???? really....?
talk about IGNORANT *****!!!!! - Eqxy, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4http://globalmarijuanamarch.org/
May 2, global marijuana march. Check for your city. If it's not on there... start organizing one in your city!
Tell everyone! - InferiorWang, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4A letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr while imprisoned for demonstrating in Birmingham, Al:
I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist? An extremist for love, truth and goodness.
There are two types of laws: just and unjust. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal". Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over his injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. - Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4People can choose to comment or not. They can willingly do anything they can think of. And if they could see beyond the blind rage of their bias, they would know that there are thousands of other articles that could better use their interest.
Besides that, people bury those comments because they are either insulting, misinformed, or just plain idiotic. The "buried" jump into a conversation, spout out the evils of the devil weed and quickly retreat. They rarely, if ever, provide any argument backed by relevant data. Press them and they change the subject or cleverly inject some logical fallacy.
You realize that you trolling (and don't think I don't know) is just entrenching and propagating these articles. You are giving the "potheads" anouther enemy. - maroger, on 03/06/2009, -0/+4I find it ***** ironic that hemp- relative of marijuana without the THC- is not even being considered here. Maybe this is the first step. Who knows. Hemp would produce food, clothing, non-petroleum fuel and can be grown without pesticides, toxic fertilizers and won't deplete the soil of nutrients. We import $billions worth from Canada and China in spite of our abundance of farmable land. From my understanding this is the ENTIRE reason marijuana is illegal.
All this other crap about the drug is a straw man. Look it up! History says it all. - porkins21, on 03/06/2009, -5/+8I think most people who visit and comment on Digg already know this... In fact, all drug laws are ridiculous. People want to get high on *****. Let them! If some idiot wants to ruin his life on heroin or crack, then that's his own fault.
How about some articles on what's going on to change the laws and what people can do? - mah2cent, on 03/06/2009, -1/+4There should be no laws regarding personal choices as long as it does not harm anyone else. So drugs, marijuana, cigarettes, alcohol, prostitution, gambling, etc, as long as it does not interfere with any one else's rights should be ok. It is all personal choice. We can carry this on to include sexual preference, abortion, religion, and education. The only thing in the way is government deciding what is best for you and then passing ridiculous laws like the DEA, DHS, and all manner of other laws to keep you from harming your self. And if you do harm yourself, they will gladly fine and jail you for your choice. Now that is real freedom, right?
What we really need is much much less government involvement with our lives, not more. - fcruz1331, on 03/06/2009, -0/+3Guys, please do not feed the troll that is middleblocker. Look at his comment history. For someone who tells other they have no life just look at how much time he's spent arguing about marijuana. Nearly all of his recent activity is just bashing anyone in favor of weed. I have yet to see him make his own argument though, just alot of bitching and moaning. How about you actually make a real point?
I'm posting this under multiple comments of yours to make sure you see this, maybe you'll try making a valid arguement then? Probably not.
Prove me wrong. - Metavised, on 03/06/2009, -2/+5Appeal to motive, bias doesn't discredit an argument. If the facts are wrong then the argument is faulty. It is up to you to prove that the facts are ill-conceived or wrong.
Are you going to do that, or will you just be comfortable saying it's wrong? -
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