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Most Presidential Candidates support MMJ
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Yea but should I donate all my illicit money to a candidate who's going to make it so i can't make my illicit money anymore?Just kiddin bro sorta kinda..
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Guest
And had it been in the MMJ forum I wouldn't have considered such a dreadfully honest reply lol!
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indicalover
Good post!
I agree with you in spirit NT, but read this with an eye to spin. This peckerwoods wants to take credit for changing candidates minds, when his group has done no such thing. Every poll in every state says that citizens support MMJ, that is why some candidates "support" it. I would love to see more real progress, but these lobbiest have very little to do with it. Keep swinging the bat man.
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I read everything with an eye to spin 
I don't think humans can avoid it
However, I do know that I see actual action from the MPP. They've setup lobbying groups in almost every state in which MMJ laws were passed. What I find interesting is that they don't setup thier own groups, per se, but support local groups with funds and prepared materials. They do break out the big mouthpieces for fund raising and media events, which, while on the surface seems self-serving, can actually be a big boon to the local groups, who very rarely have professional lobbyists in their corner.
Plus, they do harass candidates into and lawmakers into actually making a definitive statement. Hell, I'd support them just for harassing some of the idiots we have in our assemblies
So, of course this is spun to generate funds (and that is stated clearly in the message), I agree. I do find it rather forthcoming that you can opt out of receiving the fund raising rhetoric and just get the info, if you like.
All in all, while no lobbying group will ever be perfect, I do find MPP to be better than the other choices. If nothing else, it's worth a visit to the site to draw your own conclusions.
Besides, I like their spin better than the spin the media puts on MJ
I don't think humans can avoid it
However, I do know that I see actual action from the MPP. They've setup lobbying groups in almost every state in which MMJ laws were passed. What I find interesting is that they don't setup thier own groups, per se, but support local groups with funds and prepared materials. They do break out the big mouthpieces for fund raising and media events, which, while on the surface seems self-serving, can actually be a big boon to the local groups, who very rarely have professional lobbyists in their corner.
Plus, they do harass candidates into and lawmakers into actually making a definitive statement. Hell, I'd support them just for harassing some of the idiots we have in our assemblies
So, of course this is spun to generate funds (and that is stated clearly in the message), I agree. I do find it rather forthcoming that you can opt out of receiving the fund raising rhetoric and just get the info, if you like.
All in all, while no lobbying group will ever be perfect, I do find MPP to be better than the other choices. If nothing else, it's worth a visit to the site to draw your own conclusions.
Besides, I like their spin better than the spin the media puts on MJ
Sort of like a lighthouse beacon out on the horizon of the pitch black moonless ocean, eh?
I swear to God Texas needs to be banned from entering people into the presidential run...nothing good ever comes from it.
Seriously though it doesn't surprise me that politicians are supporting it, or at least saying they do. The majority of people acknowledge marijuana's medicinal properties, and if it helps a terminally ill patient why throw them in jail? Unlike Bush most would be presidents actually care about the populations support, and thus try and back the majority.
Seriously though it doesn't surprise me that politicians are supporting it, or at least saying they do. The majority of people acknowledge marijuana's medicinal properties, and if it helps a terminally ill patient why throw them in jail? Unlike Bush most would be presidents actually care about the populations support, and thus try and back the majority.
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Mr. Nevermind
no offense but.... big fucking deal. Candidates support anything if it will get them elected . THe problem is once elected they do whatever they feel is right regardless of the will of the people, if they even do anything about it at all. When is the last time a candidate talked about an issue and did something about it?
Look at immigration, i been hearing that it will be solved every 4 years and 4 years later nothing is done. Look at social security, everyone talks about doing something about it but what have they actually done? Look at mid east, all of them claim they want to help make a peaceful solution to the middle east, but they dont do shit about it and if they do its the opposite of what they said they would ( Bush ran on not using army for nation building and look what happened) when they wanted your vote. Look at our energy policy, they all talk about being energy independent but havent done shit about it.
Politics is an art of words with hardly any action behind those words. They use the same issues to get elected but never work on those issues. If they did solve those issues then they wouldnt have anything to talk about to get elected again. So its best for politicians to give a half ass effort and blame their failure on someone else so they have that issue to stir up their base 4 years later.
To think our government will actually do something that the majority of the people want is just silly. In democracy it should work that way but we really dont have a democracy. This is the same government that knows that an overwhelming majority of the peopel want our troops home and refuse to listen and let 330 die in the best 3 months. If they dont give a fuck about the troops do you really think they will give a fuck about MJ users?
Our government is full of shit and does what makes them money, not what is right or wrong. And we only have ourselves to blame. We vote the fuckers in and never hold them accountable.
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Look at immigration, i been hearing that it will be solved every 4 years and 4 years later nothing is done. Look at social security, everyone talks about doing something about it but what have they actually done? Look at mid east, all of them claim they want to help make a peaceful solution to the middle east, but they dont do shit about it and if they do its the opposite of what they said they would ( Bush ran on not using army for nation building and look what happened) when they wanted your vote. Look at our energy policy, they all talk about being energy independent but havent done shit about it.
Politics is an art of words with hardly any action behind those words. They use the same issues to get elected but never work on those issues. If they did solve those issues then they wouldnt have anything to talk about to get elected again. So its best for politicians to give a half ass effort and blame their failure on someone else so they have that issue to stir up their base 4 years later.
To think our government will actually do something that the majority of the people want is just silly. In democracy it should work that way but we really dont have a democracy. This is the same government that knows that an overwhelming majority of the peopel want our troops home and refuse to listen and let 330 die in the best 3 months. If they dont give a fuck about the troops do you really think they will give a fuck about MJ users?
Our government is full of shit and does what makes them money, not what is right or wrong. And we only have ourselves to blame. We vote the fuckers in and never hold them accountable.
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I highly doubt Kucinich, Gravel, and Paul are yanking our collective chains, though.
What can be said for a few can't be said for the rest....
What can be said for a few can't be said for the rest....
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Guest
From any actual past history on the matter only Bill Richardson can be trusted.It would take a time machine to see what the rest would really do.
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Habibi
you know how to tell when a politician is lying?
when his lips are moving
when his lips are moving
