Perhapse I should begin with a preamble about why I would like to see marijanna legalized. Basicly, the consumer industrial complex that we have built to sustain lives of varrying extravance is far more detrimental to the Earth and our selves than smokeing pot. Time and time again, I am told from a number of media outlets and personal conversation, that there is no documented case of a human being dieing as a direct result of smokeing Marijanananana. The same cannot be said for a large number of the things that human being are alowed to do everyday. The government builds roads and people crash their cars on them. The government wages a war on drugs and I smoke pot anyway and I am in better shape than most motorists.
I enjoy smokeing pot and I think that I should have the right to do it. However, the government still says I cannot do it and the government is growing in its powers of surveyance. Even in Canada, the post 9/11 world leans towards a closer eye on things. As well, technology for tracking transaction is increaseingly sophisticated. Aparently, tracking devises can be installed on any product (includeing cash) no matter how insignificant and there is talk of installing them on every product (includeing cash) no matter how insignificant. Tiny RF (radio frequency) ID (identificantion) tags. RFID tags.
Can this be avoided? I doubt it. So the government WILL more about me than I would like (they probably do already). So I figure pot should be legalized, cause I like it and I don't want big brother to be able to take it away from me because big brother does not nessisarrilly know what it best for me. Its about rights. If we are going to live in a world where we are watched (and we are, I bet you dollars to donuts) just give us our rights so we can do the things that we like and that don't hurt us and don't hurt others. That is why Marijanna user's strike is in oder. Habbit action.
Imagin pot smokers going on strike. Imagin them carrying signs and makeing a point of not consuming their drug of choice. Imagin pot smokers marching unintoxicated around the block, occupieing a park around the clock for the sake of proveing to the world, marijanna is much less addictive than many other substances and/or activities that suround us.
Does this sound sound ridiculus? Strike is what I suggest pot smokers do. I suggest that they do this on the twentieth day of the fourth month of each year. 4/20, or April 20th, is a significant number because the criminal code of the Unitied States for marijanna is 420. This number has been adopted by many young urban pot smokers in North America who make a point of lighting up when the clock strikes 4:20. I also suggest that this stike last for exactly 420 hours, or 17.5 days.
Stikeing pot smokers would then have something of a high horse to sit upon, where they could demonstrate the ease with which the drug can be put aside. Such a strike could then be a very positive thing for society because it could be taken further as a challenge to anybody who has an addiction that has either negative or unknown effects on themselves and/or the planet.
I would encourage the picketers to clean up their park and set an example for the rest of world.