I see no way of taking everything down with one single action. I have been fighting this fight since 1980, and I have seen what we are up against.

The only way is to find a weak spot and wham on it hard until it breaks. It needs to be doable, and it needs to be something that the average person will not be able to ignore, not something obscure like how many signatures a candidate needs to get on the ballot or how many hours of instruction it takes to become a barber.

Legal marijuana would be something that no one could ignore, and I can think of no or law of equal or greater noticability that would be more easy to overturn.

Think about it. All laws have as a justification that they prevent harm. In this case, no harm is involved, not even to the user. You simply can’t hurt yourself with it, no matter how much you take. (Yes, smoke from it is harmful, as is all smoke, but that problem can be avoided with a vaporizor.) This is not true of any other drug, not even caffene. You can die from a caffene overdose, this is impossible with marijuana. Heck, people have even died from drinking too much water!

No addiction, either. You can use it every day for several years and suddenly stop with no withdrawl cravings.

I am not saying that the possibility of causing harm to oneself is a justification for laws, I am saying that in this case, even that flimsy excuse is blown to bits.

There is no justification for laws against marijuana. None. Zero. This makes it the lowest of the low hanging fruit. If we can’t overturn this law we have no hope of overturning any others, except for small obscure things that would make no noticable difference in the lives of most people.

Ted,
Then we are doomed. The power structure has demonstrated its overall unwillingness to permit it. And, as stated, their permit or refuse *position* has already conceded their power. They wouldn’t really sacrifice much for the position’s holdings. Just some of their lobbyists would stand to lose some of their granted positions. To me, at this point anyway, the most insanely unjust laws are the laws regarding incarceration at all. The drug laws and other consensual crimes are just the most pointless pieces of stupity in the criminal code. At least you can figure rape, thievery, fraud, murder are bad things done to the unwilling, and wanting to hurt the perpetrator is understandable. The only one drugs ever are really doing bad things to is the person who wants to use them. It’s like eating greasy fast food or skydiving, only usually more fun. So it’s nonsensical. But the system itself is the most insanely unjust thing. I mean, exactly where does it sound like a fair thing to kidnap someone at gunpoint and subject them to any number of humiliating processes, and even rape by those individuals who have been kidnapped previously by the system? Where does it sound like anything but a psychotic criminal act? And even if one could say “but they’re bad people!” you have to realize that the moment an innocent is pushed through the system all excuses for its criminal nature are pushed out the window. Someone whose only crime was to become noticed by the biggest criminal element in our society.

As to “just asking them not to interfere with this one thing”, if pot was legal I would not shut up and blow away, there are plenty of other unjust laws I would overturn. I want to start with this one because it is low hanging fruit. It is one of the most insanely unjust laws that have ever existed in all of history. If we can’t overturn this one we are doomed.