Early this morning, Dutch authorities raided the HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. UPDATE from HIGH TIMES Magazine:
According to the East Bay Express:According to representatives for HIGH TIMES magazine, sponsors of the 24th Annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, the event will continue tonight with a scheduled concert at the Melkweg concert hall (Lijnbaansgracht 234), followed by a full day of the expo (including voting) at the Borchland (Borchlandweg) on Thursday, the final day of the competition. An additional voting station will be set up starting at 2PM on Thursday at the Melkweg, which will remain open until the beginning of the official Cannabis Cup awards ceremony at 8PM. (read more)
…police in Amsterdam are in the process of raiding the 24th annual High Times Cannabis Cup Expo. Possession of marijuana has been decriminalized in the Netherlands. But according to tweets on the scene, “everyone will have their buds confiscated, but no one will be charged or fined. This is the first time this has happened in 24 years.”
We broke the news on NORML SHOW LIVE this morning and spoke with Tim Martin of John Doe Radio, who has been in contact with numerous attendees in Amsterdam, including Scott from Rare Dankness Seeds, who called in live to the show (listen here). According to Scott, much of the Dutch concern is over the concentrates – butane hash oil, for instance – that is considered a “hard drug” in Holland.
“They herded everybody toward one exit, like you’re getting on a ski lift at Vail… then one by one they had about 40 cops there for a little talk and search… People were dropping grams and grams of hash on the ground… baggies littering the floor… people were smoking it if you had it because you weren’t rolling out with it!”
According to Scott there has been one arrest of a vendor who was caught with a lot of “shake” (leaves and stems) which, according to Dutch law, are to be immediately disposed of. Other reports indicate that there were checks of individuals to ensure they weren’t violating the 5-gram personal possession limit and checks of vendors for compliance with the 500-gram vendor possession limit.
It should be noted that none of this is precipitated by any change in Dutch law. These limits on personal and vendor possession, disposal of trimmings, and prohibitions on cannabis concentrates have existed throughout the 24-year history of the Cannabis Cup.
What has changed is a new, more conservative government in the Netherlands that seeks to “send a message” about cannabis use. They began with the closing of border coffee shops to all but Dutch, Belgian, and German passport holders, claiming that “foreign drug tourism” was leading to a host of social ills.
The global elitist hypocrites are at it again, using any excuse, made up “law” , Orwellian tactics, all to crush freedoms. This is why we Occupy Occupy Occupy Occupy.
It may not seem like it, but this proves we are winning.
The governments see the change coming and they are spoiled little children pitching one last ranting raving out of control fit.
We are a boxer; seeing the faint hint of a crack in our opponents defenses. We press on and beat them into submission. We do not rest, we do not relent. The end is near I promise!
Even the republican candidates are starting to come on board with us. We can do this! Make sure every candidate from every party knows the people want our rights to our own bodies back!
I’ve been arrested for this BS before, maybe it’s your turn. Don’t be a pussy, stand up for what you believe in. If we all take a chance and take a stand we can make this world the way we want it.
Or you can get stoned and stay home on election day and bitch about the status quo.~
TRAGIC to be sure. They have an excellent argument, however, to reduce the amount of “drug tourism”, for several reasons, global politics being one. This sounds much like an example of habitual human behavior: A few people have screwed things up for everyone. Especially those who live and pay taxes in Amsterdam! Of course, the other side of the argument is that the income from this tourism is very profitable, and other such claims as NORML members already know. The Neth.should’ve been upfront and warned the event promoters of hash/concentrate laws and possible actions including raids. They should’ve left the “decriminalized” products.
Does anyone remember what happens when they try to push drugs out of a country? it’s the same here, the more they push the more you lose. And when the Dutch push back, they will be overwhelmed and out of control. Keep pushing toward legalization as we all are all over the world. Peace and patients allways prevail.
Hurry up and regulate the legal consumption of cannabis America!
The police acted like tyrants.
Sad to see this..but It does seems like global citizen views on cananbis are changing in a positive way. So keep your heads up people! Be proud of what you do and support..don’t let other put you down for what you do. Just remember its NORML!
whoops Cannabis*
I agree with Chris, this is just a bunch of inept children trying to win a war they lost years ago. We are progressing, more and more people hear the truth every day. but we need to keep screaming that truth. We are right. these “governments” are wrong. we just need to keep rallying that and make our voices stronger. We need to have a movement like the Occupy one- just not a movement about anti-capitalism and how you want all the money you spent on ipods back.
Keep signing petitions and let them know we wont stand for this BS http://www.change.org/petitions/legalize-marijuana-4
Great post Chris.
Frankly, I think the whole idea of a cannabis cup is rediculous, over the top and rubbing it in the faces of those we don’t want to antagonize. Let sleeping dogs lie.
i was there and also have some tense video people freakin out consuming as much as we all were it was very very sad
Hum, what to say? I believe that the USA must have had some part in this in some way?
I find it very odd to say the least that one day the chief of Dutch police wakes up from bed and is like “I feel like raiding a High Times cannabis cup today”.???
Who’s to know and why and what the f**k… 24years and then bam! Cops decide they want to get high; but for free so they steel all your stuff. I would think that the Dutch cops would know this is NOT going to sit well with the people.
Dear Dutch police,
You are NOT going to scare the people into hiding, you are NOT going to make us stop fighting, and you are defiantly not going to stop the plant from growing!
Grow up and smell the flowers.
Peace
JAMS
So, the Netherlands thinks I’m going to bring “social ills” with me if I go as a weed tourist? How about I don’t go at all? Without the weed there is no reason to go. I’ll vacation somewhere else and spend my money there.
The raid just makes the point that other countries need to find their own source for the supply of their own cannabis consumers. The Dutch government is sick of the nuisances of having foreigners get their safe supply of cannabis from the Netherlands, and Minister Ivo Opstelten is merciless regarding the millions of euros in lost business and the hundreds of lost jobs. This should just create more solidarity to pressure the U.N. and other governments to legalize. Like maybe people, probably more Brits visit A’dam than North Americans, but people in general didn’t really have to give a shit that much as long as they could go to a country with an essentially legalized cannabis policy such as the Netherlands or Denmark or Switzerland. Switzerland made the switch to citizens only several years ago, under pressure from prohibitionists and its own nationals who were irritated by the problems caused by drugs tourism.
Time to make the changes for legalization is now.
Right now.
Cannabis is not going away just because of crackdowns, it’ll just go back underground, and we will go backwards and relinquish our progress of taking it out of the hands of crime networks.
Cannabis prohibition is a lost cause. Everyone agrees.
The 16 some states and federal territory (D.C.) are not going to reverse their laws for D.C or the U.N. prohibitionists. Neither U.N. nor D.C. is creating the jobs at the local level. All politics is local. People will do what they have to do to get on. Cannabis prohibition is no more than only on the books, just like blue laws. The sooner you legalize, the sooner you will stop pissing away money.
I wonder how much those rich American drug warriors paid that poor countries politicians just to get its way.
Maybe the Cannabis Cup will be held in Libya or in Egypt in the near future?
The Cannabis Cup should be like the Olympics and have it every four years at different places.
There will also be local, state, and national competition.
Reefer Madness will become the dark horror of the past and shall be forever buried.
Oh what a dream!
Abolish the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 and the DEA because it was all a foolish mistake.
Look at the google ads on the home page and tell me if the “right to work” folks support re-legalizing MJ. Look at Florida.
I was in Amsterdam many times and never, I attended the Cannabis Cup. I hope that by the time I arrive, there will be no problems.
“Authority” only exists so far as we allow it to.
We outnumber them thousands to one. Take it back.
Time for a new book? Yellow cover representing the value,mj leaf and red letters for the shead blood.
The title, Crimes Against Humanity.
can you say inconsistent? okay how about illogical? okay how about nonfactual?
why the fuck are they getting uppity about plant stems and plant matter? fucking stupidddd
and getting uppity about a substance created from legal plant matter? stupidity.
Social ills??? I am sure the US government is behind this somehow…
I guess people were harmed by the use cannabis otherwise they wouldn’t be doing this. The governments of the world are only protecting us… er, them.
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then WE win.
They should take all their stuff (including their money), tag them with lifetime stigmatization titles, and tell them that Jesus hates hippies like they would here in the good ol’ US of A. Further, they should also do this for excessive possession of McDonald’s and porn with maybe some hard prison time for gay porn. LOL…I do not know how these people (the authorities in this situation) will be able to justify their existence in the future- I suppose well have to act on faith alone.
This is a PERSONAL attack on OUR WAY of Life.
The Paramilitary Style RAIDS in the US Empire is astonishing and half for cannabis.
This attack on our way of life crosses all borders and stinks of the NEW WORLD ODOR
This is sad. Was this caused by the Dutch authorities or instigated by outside forces? When I visited the Netherlands I was a model US citizen and foreign tourist. I spent plenty of money. I visited museums. I enjoyed their cannabis and hash. I took nothing out of the country. I told all of my friends. Now, they have lost me as a tourist. I am not going to visit them with their anti tourist attitude. I may want to visit Portugal. Multiply me by a million people. Wake up Netherlands ….cannabis tourism is your friend! What you had worked well and you are replacing it with pure bullshit! Cannabis tourists can go to the illegal black market in any country.
Why raid other than politics ?
A permit dispute my ass
This is spiteful and demands a law suit that would be tied up forever and waste money.
The Reefer Madness has shall end
This is a last ditch effort to TRY and stop an industry that is providing jobs.
The self righteous BS has to end.
What a lame legacy Harry Anslinger and Willam Randloph Hearst left HUMANITY.One that costs billions in enforcement and courts costs and then prison and probation madness.Their overzealous efforts seem to span borders and live on forever.
Then They dare ask
What are your demands ?
OCCUPY EARTH
much of “MODERN” international drug policy is retarded, plain and simple.
Wow Butane Honey Oil a Hardened drug? Funny, they knew about Honey Oil 24 years ago when they told growers to dump all the trim. Such a twisted law, lets allow the buds in large amounts bu concentrates are too much.
So coffee shops are only allowed to Dutch, Belgium and German people in Maastricht city? So does this mean I can’t goto Amsterdam or some of my other favorite city’s in the Netherlands to get some bud now as an American? Or is this only in affect at one city??
Foreign drugs my ass. Drugs have been around as long as man . So you think your better than anyone else, your countries drugs have always been everywhere since time began and always will be. I’m 45 and i’m proof that you are wrong. Now unless you want to live in a cluster fuck situation and lose tourism dollars , you should not follow the ignorant. And thanks for the tourist dollars because we will happily take them for ourselves.
I travel to Amsterdam twice per year and spend approximately 10K Euros on each visit. Sadly, the 2011 Cannabis Cup will be my last visit. We’ll be going to Vancouver or California where our $$ are welcome.
The Dutch will effectively destroy an entire industry and force it’s participants underground.Subsequent job losses and revenue losses will impact the NL gov.
Making weed illegal for tourists is like Las Vegas outlawing gambling….Real Stupid!!!!!
The FDA should be called the “Fools and Dopes Admininstration”. Scumbags work for money not safety. Decide to ban a supplement that had a contaminated batch causing 30 to die, then approve a competing pharmaceutical which contributes to the over 100,000 deaths per year caused by the correct use of pills. This is America. Where marijuana, a Schedule I drug (behind cocaine, and meth), is more non-toxic than any other FDA approved drug. So the government says, “Cocaine, OK. Meth, hell give it to your child (Adderal), but pot… 5 years in prison buddy!” F-U FDA. F-U!!!”
What needs to happen in Amsterdam is for the businesses,besides the coffee shops,to start losing the tourist money,,no one will pay attention to the coffee shops when they complain of revenue loss until other people that lose stand up and protest.
What a scam. The only reason that any Gov. fears it, is that they have not figured out how to justify their last 100 years of lies. Canabis Seeds are god cure
wow,aint that something.I live in michigan(u.s.a)where we the people voted too legalize and won,but yet the attorny general does everything he can too cause problems for those who needs it!!!
That’s just awesome. They should keep this up and drive marijuana underground because Prohibition doesn’t increase violence or cede huge sums of money to organized crime or waste police resources, and jailing people doesn’t cost money nor does it harm families!
In a couple of years, maybe Amsterdam could be like those Mexican cities where they keep finding headless bodies and stuff.
Just super!
I just don’t understand why the police can’t be doing more useful things like fighting crime than harrassing stoners. It’s not like we ever hurt anyone by smoking weed. Maybe the government is afraid of us because we aren’t closed minded and we actually think.
First they ignore you, then they fight you, and then you win ~ Mahatma Ghandhi
Iemand heeft een grote vergissing bij de organisatie van deze evenement gemaskt. Het vond niet in Amsterdam plaats maar in Duivendrecht.
Shit!
Someone made a big mistake in organizing this event. It took place in Duivendrecht and not in Amsterdam. Technically and governmentally, they are NOT the same.
Just do a search (Google, etc.) with the terms
Duivendrecht Cannabis Cup
and the links with the address of the event location will pop up.
A gedoogvergunning (tolerance permit for cannabis) from Duivendrecht is needed. Anything from Amsterdam is nice but outside of its jurisdiction.
Maybe next year, if there is a next year, the Cup will be back in Amsterdam proper. You might also look into having it at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.
Too bad I’m not in the Netherlands to help organize such events and to write articles about the various lesser known Cups all over the Netherlands. I’ve been looking for an employment contract to live in the Netherlands for some time now. I’d like to live there legally on a yearly basis, not just fly there to organize and leave. Too many things could go wrong.
Psalm ch.37 v 22-40. It’s not over yet!
The HT Cannabis Cup has nothing to do with Cannabis. It is a serious money making event for High Times.
The raid on the cannabis cup expo, and subsequent restrictions at the award cermony on thursday night owes more to the brutal greed of High Times, and its ham fisted effort at running an event in Holland.
HT run this evend as a money making orgy year on year, and completly disregard the safety and well being of competitors and their clients.
There will be no more HT Cup in Amsterdam.
The dutch may be a tolerant people. But they are also a proud people, and are tired of having their noses rubbed in this High Times money orgy every year.
#49,,do the Dutch intend to stop any concerts or theatrical plays that intend on making money for bringing what consumers want to Amsterdam?
How about the beer distributors? They make money every day there. And doesn’t your country have it’s own Oktoberfest? How many years has that been going on?
Does anyone make money off of that?
I highly doubt that the Amsterdam Officials want to outlaw Marijuana for tourists. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize millions are made off tourism. And why do we want to visit Amsterdam? They have hundreds of cafes that sell marijuana. That is the ONLY reason I’d travel there.
The U.S. DEA has a tremendous amount of power. Their influence spreads worldwide and they will continue to push the prohibition on marijuana until the bitter end.
Other countries flat out legalizing Marijuana is a serious slam to the U.S. Federal Government’s “War on Drugs”.
Someone earlier said it right when they mentioned the U.S. Federal Government having to face years of lies. They have dug a hole so deep there is absolutely no way to save face.
A lot of people talk about the money that could be made off legalizing and taxing the sale of marijuana. However there is a lot more money to be made by keeping it illegal.
Look up “Wackenhut”. You can actually invest money in the company. And how does your investment gain interest? Simple. The more people going to prison mean more prisons being built. They have to hire more guards, and ultimately receive more money each year out of the state budget.
Remember that the billionaires running these private prison sectors have some pretty big connections with U.S. Politicians. Hence there are some serious big wigs who lobby for the owners of Wackenhut. They lobby for longer and harsher sentences on more menial crimes.
You also have individuals who have built (or plan to build) their career on the war against marijuana.
It is downright criminal to ruin people’s lives because they chose to enjoy a virtually harmless substance.
To sum things up I want to state my 2 cents on “Legalization”. This “red tape” is complete nonsense. It needs to be treated like alcohol or tobacco. In other words (like brewing beer) I should be able to grow a few plants for personal consumption. And that’s without putting my name on a list, needing to get a permit or placing zip ties around a plant. It’s no one’s business whether I use marijuana or not.
I can only hope we all stay strong and continue to fight for the legalization of marijuana. I’m frankly tired of my Fundamental Rights being stomped on.
Fight back – hit the Dutch where it hurts. Boycott Netherlands manufactured products! Don’t buy any Phillips electrical or electronic products! Don’t drink Heineken beer! Don’t buy any diamond jewelry this Christmas!If they want a fight, their bank accounts will come out bruised.Let all their citizens feel the impact of the mismanagement of the conservative government that stole the last election. Just like in the USA.
Dear God, Grant Norml, and We the people ask of your favor, Let your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. What you planted before people were thought of for their healing, food, and resources such as paper, clothes, plastics, milk, food, 100% oils, soaps, lotions, etc, from one plant has cause much controversy with the ones who have stolen it all, and the have not’s. What we are asking about is for you to intervene in the whole matter concerning Hemp/Marijuana. Show yourself in this matter, as you did in the U.S.patent, show yourself in our behalf, the peoples behalf in this situation, that needs to be very clear on both sides. So that FEAR can be eliminated from every person on the face of this planet, who are going through. CRUSH THE LIES, give us the TRUTH! the poison of our minds (prohibition) stops HERE! NOW!
We want to occupy wall-streets around the globe and kick them to the curb! JUSTICE will PREVAIL in this LAND of Good and Plenty! Milk and Honey!
We as the people all around the world unite in one common cause to be the force to reconciled with!
Bless all those at NORML.org, we love you for what you are doing for everybody. Strengthen their minds, strategies, laws, and activism in our favor! Show us your love for this movement to correct the wrongness done to your people.
In Yahoshua Name Amen!!!
Glad I went in 96… had a blast, everyone from california’s medical industry was there partying it up because of such a wonderfull sense of pride for prop 215.Had me a hooker after every meal, and a hookah after every hooker.
SHITS FUCKED UP. I LUH POT. <3
and by the way, police smell like fried coot
Los Angeles — Norman Smith, who has been fighting cancer for two years, needs a new liver. He was placed on the transplant list at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last year but doctors removed him in February because he was using medical marijuana and failed to show up for a drug test.
To get back on the list, Smith, 63, has to spend six months avoiding medical marijuana, submitting to random drug tests and undergoing counseling. Meanwhile, he is still undergoing chemotherapy and radiation for the cancer, which recently returned after being in remission.
Smith asked Cedars-Sinai last week to reconsider and reinstate him now.
“It’s frustrating,” he said from his home in Playa del Rey. “I have inoperable cancer. If I don’t get a transplant, the candle’s lit and it’s a short fuse.”
Any delay could mean the “difference between life and death,”.
This is good! Now all of you fuckers who let off of trying to legalize here just because you could afford to go there and smoke, will have to get back to the drawing board and work on legalizing it here again! I know some of you will just go to Portugal, but how long until it happens there too? People forget that Portugal hasn’t had a really effective system for the last decade or so. When people there get sick of their government being so ineffectual, they will elect some right-wing totalitarian regime to straighten their country out.
The funniest part about the Netherlands, is that they won’t/havn’t reduced the size of their government, or the scope of services they provide. I predict that within 2 years they will go through a MASSIVE BUDGETARY SHORT-FALL, due to the largest contributor to their GDP having been made illegal(ie cannabis-tourism)!!! Then they will have some REAL “social-ills” to contend with!
-Oz
That is nuts!! Well i guess i go to mexico. Legal to possess small amounts of all drugs. May be the EU will disband. One county will see the light and allow the tourist to flow into their county.
#1
The global elitist hypocrites are at it again, using any excuse, made up “law” , Orwellian tactics, all to crush freedoms. This is why we Occupy Occupy Occupy Occupy.
Agreed occupy the police that take part in these raids
Dear Norman Smith,
YOU have the power inside of you to heal yourself with the help of the marijuana plant; **something your have already experienced!
Most people don’t know that this medicine has the greatest potential to help heal you as long as you stay positive about your overall health, and the divine relationship between Marijuana, you, and Jesus Christ!
satan, knew exactly what the Tree of Life was all about, he has to see to it that sure his own people get to use it too!
The Hemp/Marijuana plant is divine in nature, period!
All the properties of this plant were made and meant for Human and Divine connection, consumption, Healing, and meet resourceful needs; like having Jehushua/Jesus meet your needs in the form of a plant!
They can’t stand anything in connection with the Divine Laws of Life; and will stop at nothing to reek havoc to get rid of this plant “for the people protection.” The same as they did Jesus(get rid of Him). He heals everything!
In the end the very ones that cause this effect will suffer, and have to use this plant probably themselves more then we do in the long run. Trust me they USE this plant maybe not for the same reason we do, for a much more Sinister use! Will be their own UNDOING!!! This is what is wrong with them!
You can Meditate (go inside)and ask the Lord to rewrite your record inside the LAW’s of Life in Meshiach Yeshua. Rom 8:1, 2.
The rich and powerful can’t and will not go to God for anything, they believe that they are god; when they want to relax they fire up a joint have a glass of $300-Hennessy on the side!
Call the kettle BLACKED OUT even WHITE WASHED or Both!
I am deeply saddened by the reformation laws for tourists in Amsterdam. It has been my dream to visit, and would have loved to attend the cannabis cup.
There are no more social ills brought by cannabis use than the average football game (far fewer I’d say!) and to lump them in with the rest of drug culture is crazy.
I was in the lobby, waiting to use the bathroom to drain my bladder, thank the Gods of Heineken.
They searched the person in front of me going into the bathroom which made me want to get out of the line, but as the Pigs were standing a few feet from and me I didn’t want to attract undue attention I continued to stand in line. Then they then said no more bathroom use, just as I was going to be searched. Then they told us to leave the lobby and they were searching us at the door, I was about 7th in that line and still wanting to get out of that line too, for obvious reasons. Finally an officer came by and said let them go, (since they had thousands of people contained inside),
The bus driver outside said his boss said not more bus service but they relented and took the 20 of us or so that luckily were in the lobby to the nearest train station instead. I was a bit c0oncerned as people were smoking in the buss and we were followed by two police vans, I asked the driver, “You said train station not police station, right?’
Hairy scary stuff, but what the hey is was pretty exciting to NOT GET CAUGHT, my new hippy name is Lucky Pisser (oh and thank you Gods of Heineken)!
Did you notice the article said CONSERVATIVES? Right there is the problem, as well in USA and elsewhere. The US CONSERVATIVES have in fact taken trips to Amsterdam and riled up the CONSERVATIVES their with religious reasons for banning cannabis. They are the ones who riled up the Dutch Conservatives and bullied them into taking actions. The US Conservatives are at the root of this and the Amsterdam Conservatives are on the front line of the US World war on cannabis. Please be aware of this insidious US Conservative world war on your country and expose their Conservative Propaganda.
Harry J Anslinger sold his lies around the world. He may be the single greatest con man in history.
Talk about a set up!! Sounds like the Government needs some cash so they confiscate everyone’s buds, sell them on the streets and wahla, money for the police department to buy more guns! Sounds too simple doesn’t it?! Too bad this happens daily all over the world. They sure got some sweet, strong medicine when they took mine on November 9! 🙁
@Galileo Galiliei, yes, Harry Anslinger…the greatest con man in history!
I hate to say this, but y’all are being more of a problem than a solution right now. First off, let me preface this by saying that I am a Republican, and I support the legalization of marijuana in the USA. However, thinking that an ‘occupy’ solution is best is simply moronic. Get off your asses and actually contribute to this nation. I have also seen many pleas to “abolish the controlled substances act of 1970.” How in the hell do any of you think this cold be a good idea. There are valid reasons MANY of the drugs on that list are illegal, and don’t give me any of that “my body, my choice” bullshit. There are others in this world outside of your liberal, hippy existence that WILL be adversely affected by the legalization of things like heroin, meth, pcp, etc. (things that ARE deadly, unlike marijuana).
If you want to see change, you need to be proactive, logical, and not expect everything to change overnight. And there is nothing this country hates more than a bunch of protesters who never had the drive to do anything substantial in the first place. We need to show Washington that marijuana does not rot your brain, and that you can still be a high-functioning (pun intended, get it??) member of society.
#68, While I agree that folks need to be contributing; I really have my doubts about people fearing marijuana. It is just an excuse to expand governmental powers. Even the police know it should be legal, they still enjoy being able to use their power to harass and arrest innocent folks.
Take a look at LEAP, these folks only develop their morals after retiring from their corrupted War on Drugs. No one said the Controlled Substance Act has to be enforced using this racist, dumb, wasteful, scape-goating War on Drugs; except for the folks in the Executive Branch. So let me get this right, if you’re part of the Executive Branch you’re not allowed to be an effective tool in the War on Drugs because good ideas aren’t allowed. Just stupid ones. These individual are only “allowed” to think of good policies after they are out of office/power. Is this some kind of sick joke on us? Why are we paying for this crap???
comment #11 is the exact reason why it is still illegal, if we did this with every issue we would still have slaves serving us sparkling water in bars here in the states. I think we havnt gotten in the faces enough of those “in power” and i use that term loosely. I know its true that the hidden agendas of few make the choices of most restricted, but the more i hear that the more i think well why isnt anyone doing anything. Americans have been and are too afraid of the government. Just remember “The people should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people.” We are the true 99%!!!
This is another prime example of how far the coruption of the US government reaches. The fedz havent just declared war on drugs, they have declared war on people, lives, freedom and gods creation. I for one am answering by declaring war on the united states government. They can no longer destroy peoples lives over a plant that has grown long before this country ever existed. People are starving in this world, shit, in this country and they spend billions to fight a plant that god made. Shame on you US gov. You all will burn for your injustices.