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Drugs Roadside Weed
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM
The Cannabis Defense Coalition, a group that engages in courtroom activism, adopted a section of Highway 169 in Maple Valley, Washington. And today, the Department of Transportation installed their sign:
Huh, huh. Highway.
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Good thing there's a guard rail there...maybe some water barriers would be appropriate...and a Jack in the Box.
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these stoner jokes are stupid. "highway", "roadside weed"--why can't you just straight report the fact that a group that keeps innocent people out of jail has adopted a highway? Or is that not cool enough?
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@4 is spot on, and represents the reason why "normals" dismiss "potheads."
Stoners LIKE to be called "stoners" and until they dislike it, pot will remain illegal.
Sorry to tell you the truth.
Tie dye doesn't help, by the way.
Christ... I really doubt pot advocates will EVER get it, but keep trying, I guess, maybe, sorta...
Stoners LIKE to be called "stoners" and until they dislike it, pot will remain illegal.
Sorry to tell you the truth.
Tie dye doesn't help, by the way.
Christ... I really doubt pot advocates will EVER get it, but keep trying, I guess, maybe, sorta...
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It's certainly appropriate. God only knows how many brain cells I killed while getting baked and waiting to be old enough to get the hell out of Maple Valley.
Actually, I believe that sign is pretty close to THE place to go get baked by the river.
Actually, I believe that sign is pretty close to THE place to go get baked by the river.
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But if someone had a vanity license plate on their car, with words such as this, the state would revoke it. Go figure.
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Good for the CDC. Here's a group of dedicated activists getting something done. Please go check out their website. These are not lazy, tie dye wearing stoners who throw one big party every year. Seems they work tirelessly to raise the awareness and increase the visibility on pot cases all over this state. (Thanks Dom, for reporting. Too bad you always have to temper it with some dig on the stoners.)
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@Urgutha Forka
Getting "stoned" has been turned into not a negative colloquialism, but rather a badge of pride. That's the true sense that times are changing for views of marijuana. Once, it was an insult, now it is viewed as a compliment of someone with an open and diverse viewpoint: A Forward Looking Person. That is the true measure of change; when the negative has been turned positive.
Smokers of marijuana are not fitting the mold forced upon them by prohibitionists. They are presidents, they are olympic gold medalists, they are writers, artists, thinkers, philosophers.. They are us: America. The years of lies stuffed down our throats from early age are being refuted with hard scientific fact, whether it be the benefits of cancer fighting capabilities, the many numerous pain-relieving qualities, or even the knowledge that our brain produces it's own cannabinoids, we find more and more of what we were force-fed by the government is nothing but propaganda.
You say "stoners" don't get any work done? Give me a break. There is more researching and hard work being done right now because of the tireless efforts by activists and scientists alike, the ones that said they would not sit down and quietly eat the lies. The ones that said they will try to understand something before they deny it. That's half of America. And the numbers keep growing as quickly as the plants.
Getting "stoned" has been turned into not a negative colloquialism, but rather a badge of pride. That's the true sense that times are changing for views of marijuana. Once, it was an insult, now it is viewed as a compliment of someone with an open and diverse viewpoint: A Forward Looking Person. That is the true measure of change; when the negative has been turned positive.
Smokers of marijuana are not fitting the mold forced upon them by prohibitionists. They are presidents, they are olympic gold medalists, they are writers, artists, thinkers, philosophers.. They are us: America. The years of lies stuffed down our throats from early age are being refuted with hard scientific fact, whether it be the benefits of cancer fighting capabilities, the many numerous pain-relieving qualities, or even the knowledge that our brain produces it's own cannabinoids, we find more and more of what we were force-fed by the government is nothing but propaganda.
You say "stoners" don't get any work done? Give me a break. There is more researching and hard work being done right now because of the tireless efforts by activists and scientists alike, the ones that said they would not sit down and quietly eat the lies. The ones that said they will try to understand something before they deny it. That's half of America. And the numbers keep growing as quickly as the plants.
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