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The manic-depressive answer: It'll never happen. People are too unorganized/stupid/disempowered. It's just futility. Try, but don't expect to get anywhere. I won't get my hopes up.
The paranoid-schizophrenic answer: Don't you SEE?!?!? The guys at the top have it SEWN!! They own everything. They'll never let it happen. I shouldn't even be talking to you, but let me give you some advice!! listen... you shouldn't mess with THEM, THEY know everything. THEY are practically psychic, see? And the only way to get it to happen is to become one of THEM. You'd better watch it, or THEY will come and take you away -- THEY do that, you know. It's all a CONSPIRACY!!!
The neurotic answer: Marijuana? Eeek! Don't you know that stuff is dangerous? People don't make laws for no good reason, you know! Where did you hear about marijuana? Wait! Don't tell me, I don't want to know. If anybody even knew you thought it should be legal -- well -- they'd never talk to you again! Don't you know that marijuana this... marijuana that... ... ... ...
THE REAL ANSWER: Marijuana is still illegal because enough people have not yet stood up together and said:
`` THIS IS STUPID!!
If you aren't convinced yet, Or if you are having trouble swallowing any of the answers given, I encourage you to learn more about the issues. Try the sources listed at the end.
If you're with us, let us know! Let everybody know, unless it will get you canned or arrested, but most importantly, keep an eye on what's going on, and try to lend a hand when you can. Also, know your stuff, so if you have to, you can convince a friend or loved one that *you* are not nuts -- the rest of the world is.
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``The Emperor Wears No Clothes'' by Jack Herer pub. Queen of
Clubs/HEMP, 1993/1994
``Hemp, Life-Line to the Future'' by Chris Conrad pub. data
pending
``Marihuana Reconsidered'' by Lester Grinspoon pub. 1977.
Harvard University Press. pub. 1993 data pending.
``Marihuana the Forbidden Medicine'' by Lester Grinspoon
pub. Yale University Press 1993.
Journal Articles of General Interest
``Marijuana Laws: A Need for Reform'' by Roger Allan Glasgow
in ``Arkansas Law Review'' Vol. 22(340) pp. 359-375.
Government commissions recommending legalization
The Panama Canal Zone Report of 1925, pub. United States
Government.
Mayor LaGuardia's Committee on Marijuana (New York) Report
issued 1944. (Initiated 1938 -- an extensive study of
marijuana) pub. New York City Government
The Final Report of the Le Dain Commission on Marijuana
Legalization, pub. Canadian Gov't
Final Report if the National Commission on Marijuana, 1972,
pub. United States Government entitled ``Marijuana -- a
Signal of Misunderstanding''
Court Rulings
``In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition'' by Hon.
Francis L. Young Docket# 86-22 1989.
Si Kahn ``Organizing: A Guide For Grassroots Leaders''
McGraw-Hill 1982 0-07-033215-0 (0-07-033199-5 paperback)
Ed Hedemann ``The War Resisters League Organizers Manual''
1981 0-940862-00-X
The War Resisters League
339 Lafayeyette St., New York, NY
3b) Umm, I'm computer illiterate, so that just went way over
my head. Are there any good books I could go get instead?
Here is a list of some of the must-read books and
articles about marijuana and legalization. Check the
source section of this FAQ for more information about
these and other sources.4) Do you have any advice for people who want to organize
their own group?
There are some very good books that will help new
organizers hit the ground running. Here are two titles you
should try to locate:
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