You may have noticed that American culture is changing, rapidly and at an accelerated pace it may seem… especially, or more to a certain degree in areas of the country where cannabis is becoming legal.
The catalyst for some of the social change that you are seeing may not just be all from the new awareness of things like the housing crises, The 99% protests, Lgtbq rights, decline of public education, violent police assaults and murders, decline of the middle class, mass incarceration, the growth of Black Lives Matter, our new age of terrorism, or the latest Donald Trump public defecation episode.
There is another name for what is happening..
The Cannabis Awakening
The Cannabis Awakening is the socio-cultural phenomenon currently taking place in America and across the world, that is marked by the following factors and behaviors, typically in this order…
Increasing cannabis legality and social acceptance, that is soon followed with radical changes in culture.
These changes in culture result not only from the new acceptance of cannabis consumers socially, but from the interaction and acceptance of the new cannabis culture and knowledge base as well.
These changes in the new social reality and knowledge base, moves the dominant culture away from the errors of church and government, towards revolutionary individual spiritual and societal transformations.
Resulting in more empowered individuals and communities, leading to more conscious, spiritual, and morally focused belief systems.
The Cannabis Awakening is basically one of the things that happens when western societies legalize cannabis!
The reality of accepting people into society that have been unaccepted for so long creates a culture clash that inevitably exposes both sides to the culture of the other. Old lies are uncovered and new knowledge and information is absorbed and reintegrated. In the case of cannabis culture, the mainstream has been unaccepting of cannabis culture and knowledge for so long, that these shifts in culture can be profound.
Cannabis is unique in its awakening potential because of both its specific effects on the human body and its ancient and modern history related to the emergence of semi-sedentary societies, religion (and its evolution!) and western civilization.
Cannabis has not just been purposefully hidden and lied about. Its prohibition has been used since biblical times to identify and persecute those that are a threat to the dominant cultural paradigm. From women accused of being witches, to Black Americans and the Drug War, cannabis prohibition has been used by those in authority to torment and terrorize large numbers of people.
Cannabis is becoming mainstream, what many haven’t quite realized yet is not just how that will change the community that they live in, but how will it change the way we think.?
Radio interview with prohibitionist politician Sen Jason Lewis. This is how the new model for racial oppression and discrimination begins. Ignorant and biased politicians misrepresent the truth and make BAD policy that we all have to use our resources to clean up later. Just like Donald Trump, or George W. Bush, two modern Republican politicians.
Prohibitionist, MA State Senator Jason Lewis continues to attack Legal Cannabis Community.
Sen Lewis is a politician of the times. Like Donald Trump. They say one thing but really mean another. They are dishonest when they represent policy and facts. They smile while they lie and attack peaceful and legal communities. Massachusetts voters should be disgusted with the behavior of Senator Lewis. I encourage cannabis consumers in MA to contact Sen Lewis office and let him know how misled he is. Maybe ask him how much money Trump and anti-cannabis lobbyists have promised him? Or what type of business deals are being made in Colorado, on behalf of MA voters?
Sen Jason Lewis office 617-722-1206
Once again, in case anyone missed it.
Sen Jason Lewis is taking a dirty page from a very old, American Racist playbook, and trying to repackage it for us. The idea that cannabis is a public health danger that we must be protected from is simply a lie. This lie comes from the very well documented campaign of racist anti-cannabis propaganda called “Reefer Madness”.
People voted to legalize cannabis because they are more informed than biased politicians like Lewis and reject what he is saying about cannabis. He is saying what prohibitionists have always said about cannabis, there is no difference.
There is no science behind what Lewis is proposing, just bias. Why are prohibitionists like him being allowed to ruin a new paradigm that voters have worked hard for? I say the same reasons that we always have.
When Lewis says he is taking the will of voters seriously, he is lying. He is attacking voters and lying about it… but we should quickly be getting used to how immoral our politicians can be.
There is no doubt that Sen Jason Lewis and other prohibitionists are behaving in an undemocratic way when it comes to respecting the voters.
OK. Time to respond to the attacks from the ignorant and misled.
Senator Jason M Lewis 5th Middlesex and Rep Hannah Kane 11th Worcester.
Kane is a Republican, and Lewis is a new type of Massachusetts Democrat from Winchester.
These two Massachusetts politicians are working hard to subvert the will of the voters. They boldly claim to know better!
There has been twenty years passed since California first approved Medicinal Cannabis. Massachusetts politicians have had ample time to plan for a legal distribution model that works, and work with citizens to do so, but our politicians have been practicing extreme cowardice and ignorance. That’s fine, because the voters will just have to change the law themselves.. and we did. but oh wait, Now these ignorant Massachusetts politicians have decided that they want to get involved! Smell some cash? Time to inject some ignorance and oppression into the new paradigm, right?
Acting concerned now is just slow, ineffective, inefficient and transparent in its discriminatory effect. Lewis and Kane seem to believe that the voters of the Commonwealth are not capable of voting and developing a policy for themselves. They seem to think that the voters got it wrong in a bunch of ways and they are going to fix it! Like toddlers helping Mommy clean up by making a bigger mess! Modern prohibitionists are like Gay Bashers, from a different more ignorant time, with a skewed sense of morality, and hostile tendencies. Lets hope they get some help, or have short careers.
We will be contacting the offices both of these politicians offices, as we all should, and help get them up to speed.
Rep Hannah Kane 11th Worcester 617-722-2430
https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/HEK1
Hannah.Kane@mahouse.gov
Sen Jason M Lewis Fifth Middlesex 617-722-1206
https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/jml0/Biography
Jason.Lewis@masenate.gov
Any local politician that works to undermine the will of voters should be called out forcefully!
Ask them why they are trying to re-criminalize cannabis? And how much are they being paid to do so? We know that the biggest lobbyists against cannabis are Law Enforcement, Prisons, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Big Pharma, which ones are these politicians in bed with? Or are they are just moved by the foolishness of the voters to act?
Finally the people of the commonwealth have been enlightened on the cannabis question and we all may now move on to increased consciousness in all endeavors.
Thank you to all of those that have voted Yes for Question #4!
You are heroes!
BostonCannabis.Info will continue to educate the local public on all things Cannabis; and continue to hold our elected officials feet to the fire on issues relevant to the community.
Cannabis can lead people to a deeper understanding of life and their own consciousness. I am encouraged that cannabis will aid our nations healing and lead to increased social consciousness.
Lets have a fantastic and safe year moving forward friends.
Chief
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A Veterans Plea for Common Sense on the Drug War, Racism, and Cannabis policy.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” -Martin Luther King Jr.
People of Boston and the Nation. A tragic and inequitable situation has risen…
Racism, ignorance, and immorality are destroying our communities…
We must educate ourselves and fight to change this reality or in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “perish together as fools”
The following ideas are absolutely not original to this post and can all be found researched through links on BostonCannabis.Info …
Mass incarceration is an immoral tragedy created through racism and ignorance.
Cannabis is the scientific name for what propagandists have referred to disparagingly as Marijuana.
Cannabis possession is the most popular drug crime and is responsible for the most drug arrests and charges.
Cannabis is a super-food and provides complete protein (hemp-seed), can be used safely to treat many diseases and ailments, and can be made into over 30,000 legal products.
Please stay with me as I elaborate…
Kentucky Industrial Hemp
Cannabis was the number one agricultural crop in the world and was listed in the American Pharmacopoeia of drugs and their approved uses until 1940 when American Politicians and officials campaigned for it to be illegal on purely racist and ignorant grounds.
Only made illegal after extremely racist public officials lied repeatedly to the American population. They said false, ridiculous, mean, hateful, racist, and ignorant things to support a wave of new drug laws that were not aimed at decreasing drug use, but were ONLY aimed at controlling ethnic populations, Blacks, Mexicans, Chinese…
Cannabis was made illegal only twice in American history. The first time was for racist purposes, 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. They said cannabis (marihuana) made Mexicans and African-Americans violent, and then later they said it makes them communist and pacifist, all lies of course.
Billie Holiday was a Singer and entertainer that was hounded by Anslinger and his goons till her death day. Anslingers goons handcuffed her to a bed as she lay dying in need of medicine which they refused her.Anslinger hated Billie Holiday personally because she was a succesful black, woman, activist. She popularized the song “Strange Fruit” an anti-lynching song. Anslinger used his new drug agency to persecute, humiliate, terrorize, and eventually kill Billie Holiday as she lay handcuffed in front of friends and family. Anslinger was a terrorist with the backing of the US Govt for over 30 years.
White society has been known to see foreign or different ethnic cultural elements as scary or satanic. Just as certain Christian societies have viewed things non-Christian or not conforming to their culture as satanic. The only party invoking Satan into the discussion was the fearful white society.
Why doesn’t freedom of religion here in America protect cannabis use, as it is indeed used for religious worship the world over and through all time? Research will lead you once again to ignorance and racism folks!
Discrimination against Chinese-Americans
Drug laws were first used to oppress the Chinese-Americans that were now coming to America at the turn of 20th century (1900s), and had become the focus of hostilities due to economic and social struggles. A popular Chinese cultural practice was the use of opium.
“Prohibition… goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes… A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” – Abraham Lincoln
They were not under the false notion that they could stop opium use throughout the nation. They just wanted to be able to criminalize and control the Chinese populations which they blamed for certain problems of society.
Racist Harry J Anslinger 1st Drug Czar
Anslinger and others used this precedent to improve upon their system of oppression and inflate their new government agency using our society’s most vulnerable populations to be the nation’s punching bag. After alcohol prohibition failed so miserably, new civil rights laws were being enacted in congress leading to racist filibusters on the Congress floor; The Dust Bowl, Great Depression, and the Dirty Thirties laid waste to economies families and farmers and destroyed their way of life. Jobs were scarce. Charlatans whipped up vulnerable crowds into the politics of hatred and blaming others for all problems of society, Not unlike Donald Trump does today.
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Lynching of African-Americans was commonplace at this point in US history, as is the modern gunning down of black-men by police, vigilantes, blacks and other Americans who have internalized the racial hatred and dysfunction of American society today.
The new law forced people to get a stamp for their cannabis but few stamps were handed out. The issue was tax revenue NOT public safety! They didn’t make any money in taxes if you grew your own medicine and supplies or decided to grow and sell the same. Department of Treasury NOT a public safety agency was who the New Federal Bureau of Narcotics would be under. Public safety concerns were racist fears of Blacks, Mexicans, and Chinese not the effects of medicine or drugs on individuals. Americans of the time transferred their fear of the black and Mexican population to a common, useful, household herb. Marijuana Tax Act was challenged and overturned by Timothy Leary and The Supreme Court in 1969. It was found to be unconstitutional.
This became a very valuable political dynamic for racist republicans and effectively silenced the political voices of millions. The drug war has been a war on Americans, a war on families, and a war on truth and liberty itself.
Reagan is Ignorant or LyingRonnies infinite wisdom! More lies.
Other Republicans like Reagan doubled down on Nixon’s policies. Democrats too. Leading us to the situation we have today. Reagan’s fake push to cure cancer in the 1980s was a lie to raise money while they hid cannabis related cancer research with the help of the DEA.
Feel safe lately? No? Thank your leaders for lying to us all and creating a dangerous, uninformed system of oppression and misery, that is destroying the country.
Ignorant Ronald ReaganGeorge Orwell
Drug prohibition made our streets and cities dangerous in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s just like Alcohol Prohibition did (1920-1933). Al Capone and the new American organized crime wave of the 1920s has become Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. We ended alcohol prohibition and now people do not shoot each other over a barrel of beer. Hopefully if we get smart and end drug prohibition… people will no longer shoot each other over drugs either. Drugs are not bad or dangerous on their own, their monetary value has been multiplied and inflated because of their imposed illegality. Illegal drugs and medicines are simply worth more money than other products because of prohibition. Drugs are medicines. NOT dangerous but helpful to all when used properly.
Michele Alexander The New Jim Crow
Many things can kill you when misused, does that make them all dangerous to where we need prohibition? Cannabis can NOT kill you even when misused! Is cannabis dangerous?
The bias against cannabis is cultural. Americans must stop supporting this corrupt, racist, ignorant, and immoral drug war! End institutional racism now! END DRUG PROHIBITION NOW!
If we do not find the courage to call out, expose, and honestly deal with all elements of oppression racial, gender, and otherwise, then we are all destined for complete failure due to cowardice. Cowardice to face the issues. You cannot ignore the systematic assault and oppression of so many people and then wonder why communities and institutions are failing. It is an ignorant and naive position and a vicious lie to say so. I challenge ANYONE to reference this course of events and defend any of this drug war behavior as not corrupt, not racist, not ignorant, not a tragic hypocrisy and morally right. Please see definitions for the following terms corrupt, racist, ignorant, and immoral at end of article.
“In things racial… we have always been and I believe continue to be in too many ways a nation of cowards.” Attorney General Eric Holder United States Department of Justice
US Attorney General Eric Holder
Cowardice is defined as a lack of bravery. Fits well. You think?
Modern politicians and voters that believe and buy into the propaganda of “Reefer Madness” are still acting in unison with the racist and immoral officials of the past. Supporting racist and ignorant policies decades after they have been proven to be illegitimate, harmful, misinformed, and unconstitutional.
The last few presidential campaigns illustrate very clearly that a republican party goal is to disenfranchise people of color. Republicans do not want African-Americans and many others to vote, and have acted on those goals regularly for decades but increasingly more so recently. How different are today’s white Americans than all of those White Americans watching on in satisfaction or indifference as black families were tortured and murdered in the public square, as a sign to others. Not unlike how modern terrorists and groups, ISIS and ISIL (Islamic State In Syria/Libya), publicly torture and murder their victims to warn others. And not unlike so many American Police Departments that broadcast the murders that they will be getting away with every day on tv and the internet. It is a powerful message that law enforcement has been sending the black community for so many years. It goes something like this…
“We are given the power to destroy you on sight, publicly or privately and wherever or whenever we so please. You have no recourse so when you see police officers know that they have the right to do as they please with you, your person, your property, and your family. You have NO rights when an officer is talking to you BOY so listen up or suffer whatever the officer decides your punishment or execution should be. We can beat you, shoot you, rape or sodomize you, and kidnap and imprison you to do it all over every day for the rest of your miserable black life. Our society says as a white officer I’m better than you and its my job to make sure you are oppressed. I take my job serious and you should too.”
The presidential campaign of Republican Nominee Donald Trump is openly encouraging physical violence against African Americans now in August of 2016 and is promising to punish Muslims, people of Mexican heritage, and foreigners as well.
Are citizens allowed to fight back against oppression? The culture in America and Boston must change. These changes must happen or we can all expect the pitiful situation that our culture has created today to continue. The drug war, racist institutions, mass incarceration, police terrorism of the black population, increasing racial violence and white supremacist media rhetoric and groups, the Jim Crow paradigm, all will continue to lead us as a nation towards ruin. No one will feel safe or content until agents of oppression cease fire. The public will NOT trust government, law enforcement, or any of their representatives because it has been their policy to treat so many Americans as targets of oppression and have not bothered to change the dynamic. We have been waiting a VERY long time.
END AMERICAN COWARDICE!!! STOP OPPRESSION!!! END JIM CROW!!!
Loyalty Duty Respect Selfless Service Honor Integrity Personal Courge L.D.R.S.H.I.P.
Nothing about the drug war can be said to embody ANY of these American Army Values which are required to be memorized and practiced by all US Soldiers.. The Drug War is and always has been immoral. So as far as this veteran is concerned, The Drug War has no place in our society. For those that wish to continue the racist and immoral drug war… please let us know why the oppression of so many is necessary?
USA Drug Policy Reeks with Oppression
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine
None of the previous has been a secret folks.. when will reasonable people act?
Chief – from BostonCannabis.Info
cor·rup·tion
noun
1.
dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
cor·rupt
adjective
1.
having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
rac·ist
noun
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a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
adjective
1.
having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
ig·no·rant
adjective
lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
Congratulations! Thank you to the few politicians finally willing to stand up for the rights of citizens on the issue of cannabis.
Could have used your support before now of course… but welcome to the community! This site has a lot of valuable links and info to educate yourselves on cannabis… please spend some time and click around.
We all could have predicted this but it is necessary to think deeper about what this long delay in the decriminalization process is about. The same people that have been benefiting from prohibition are getting every last drop of drug war profits they can before they start making profits selling them.
It is immoral to deny people medication and sacramental herbs all in order to criminalize people and make money off of their incarceration.
The scheduling of cannabis was fraudulent from the beginning!
We all know this and history shows this very clearly. It can not be denied so people just ignore the question.
The DEA is guilty of perpetrating decades of crimes against Americans in their overzealous, misled and misinformed drug war. They have made a lot of money off of American families with their racist and ignorant policies.
Cannabis is now proven to kill cancer cells in laboratories and all evidence and modern science i leading us back to what we always knew…
The DEA has been denying all of us our rights to medicine, to happiness, to religion, to industry, health, wellness and prosperity with their war on cannabis!
It can no longer be disputed by rational educated people.