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So, the alcohol industry has a brand new holiday, and they are calling it "Repeal Day". Repeal Day, December 5th, is the day to celebrate the end of prohibition by participating in your Constitutional rights and buying alcohol.
There's just one problem... PROHIBITION STILL EXISTS!
The site is http://www.repealday.org/. It offends me on several levels.
PROHIBITION STILL EXISTS! The Marihuana Tax Act was passed in 1937 and since then people in America have been prohibited to take part in the choice to smoke cannabis and a multi-billion dollar “war on drugs”, a catch phrase for prohibition, has been waged upon American citizens. And unlike alcohol, some people use cannabis as a medicine and are prohibited from getting the treatment and comfort they need.
I have modified part of the text from the site to make it fit the current PROHIBITION on cannabis:
"On August 2, 1937, the Senate passed the Marihuana Tax Act, outlawing cannabis and ostensibly putting an end to crime, mental illness, and poverty.
Ironically, America's thirst for cannabis increased during Prohibition, and organized crime rose up to replace formerly legal methods of production and distribution. "
Unfortuantely it is 70 years since the Marihuana Tax Act, and nothing has changed.
Also, CAPITALIZING on the progress made by the activists of the first anti-prohibition political movement is a disgrace. As a modern day anti-prohibition activist, I know how hard it is to be involved in an anti-prohibition movement. People give up their lives and their freedom so that their fellow citizens can be allowed to have the natural right to put any substance they want (and in some cases with cannabis, the medicine they need) into their body.
I am a modern day anti-prohibition fighter, as are hundreds of other Americans still out there fighting for freedom. If the alcohol industry was really concerned with the plight of the people fighting injustice in this country, then recognize those fighting prohibition today and don't make a mockery of the plight of past freedom fighters by capitalizing on their progress.
Finally, I am offended as a tax paying, voting American citizen that the Constitution is being used for the alcohol industry's own capitalistic means. "Repeal Day presents a wonderful occasion to get together with friends and pay tribute to our constitutional rights." No, it will get people together and pay for alcohol! Why can't there be a "national freedom of assembly" day, that's in the Constitution. Oh that's right, because "repeal day" is sponsored by the alcohol companies and that a "freedom of assembly" day wouldn't be profitable.
Please don't participate in this disgusting joke sponsored by the alcohol industry. If you notice any bars actually promoting this event, let them know you don't support it! Let them know that you know prohibition still exists!
There's just one problem... PROHIBITION STILL EXISTS!
The site is http://www.repealday.org/. It offends me on several levels.
PROHIBITION STILL EXISTS! The Marihuana Tax Act was passed in 1937 and since then people in America have been prohibited to take part in the choice to smoke cannabis and a multi-billion dollar “war on drugs”, a catch phrase for prohibition, has been waged upon American citizens. And unlike alcohol, some people use cannabis as a medicine and are prohibited from getting the treatment and comfort they need.
I have modified part of the text from the site to make it fit the current PROHIBITION on cannabis:
"On August 2, 1937, the Senate passed the Marihuana Tax Act, outlawing cannabis and ostensibly putting an end to crime, mental illness, and poverty.
Ironically, America's thirst for cannabis increased during Prohibition, and organized crime rose up to replace formerly legal methods of production and distribution. "
Unfortuantely it is 70 years since the Marihuana Tax Act, and nothing has changed.
Also, CAPITALIZING on the progress made by the activists of the first anti-prohibition political movement is a disgrace. As a modern day anti-prohibition activist, I know how hard it is to be involved in an anti-prohibition movement. People give up their lives and their freedom so that their fellow citizens can be allowed to have the natural right to put any substance they want (and in some cases with cannabis, the medicine they need) into their body.
I am a modern day anti-prohibition fighter, as are hundreds of other Americans still out there fighting for freedom. If the alcohol industry was really concerned with the plight of the people fighting injustice in this country, then recognize those fighting prohibition today and don't make a mockery of the plight of past freedom fighters by capitalizing on their progress.
Finally, I am offended as a tax paying, voting American citizen that the Constitution is being used for the alcohol industry's own capitalistic means. "Repeal Day presents a wonderful occasion to get together with friends and pay tribute to our constitutional rights." No, it will get people together and pay for alcohol! Why can't there be a "national freedom of assembly" day, that's in the Constitution. Oh that's right, because "repeal day" is sponsored by the alcohol companies and that a "freedom of assembly" day wouldn't be profitable.
Please don't participate in this disgusting joke sponsored by the alcohol industry. If you notice any bars actually promoting this event, let them know you don't support it! Let them know that you know prohibition still exists!