Originally Posted by v3d4
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really? well not with veda.
veda strongly encourages pro-marijuana activism and agrees with nearly everything dave says about prohibition, however veda does not condone nor will she ever tolerate any crass commercialism or profiteering by way of advertising on this website.
veda will certainly prevent any further attempts at such wicked capitalism.
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Well, I posted this in the wrong topic:
I could write a book about this. I was a member of GLAAD (Gay/Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) when it first formed in San Francisco, that would be about 1984 or so. I ended up on the Media Committee. GLAAD was all about getting the media to report on gay people without bias. We had volunteers who watched the various media - the journals of record (The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner ... and there was one more 'journal of record' but I can't remember right now). They would go through the papers and major media every day and send us videos and clippings of anything defamatory. We would sit down once a week and review what was sent and decide whether an item qualifed as an action item or not. If it qualified first we had a team of letter writers to bombard the target with letters. We also decided what remedy we wanted, generally that the agency stop using defamatory language in reporting on gays...
...I haven't realized until now how remarkably organized it was. If we did not get the rememdy we seeked we escalated in pre-determined steps, up to and including calling up ACT-UP (who were always happy to ACT UP).
It was extremely effective.
Letters once mattered a great deal, but that was before the internet had begun to replace traditional media. I suspect emails have as much impact. I know most major media, like the New York Times and The L.A. Times provide for composing 'letters to the editor' online.
Still, I think both politicians and the media probably give more weight to short, concise, non-inflamatory letter than to anything else. I think MPP used to select targets somewhat like GLAAD did, but allow you to send a fax online - which also has more weight than an email and probably as much weight as a letter.
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Just glancing over their site, they don't do that anymore.
I haven't looked at their site in a long time. I think I'll do that now.
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As for "wicked capatilism", I have mixed feelings about it. In my mind the infraction would be 'spamming', not 'capatilism'. Now, if it was one of those pill-pusher sites....I would have already banned their IP.
It does seem to me the sites with the most traffic are selling something, usually either fake weed or seeds or both. And experience has taught me if they have ads for fake bud they also have a team of trolls that will bash anyone off the site that interferes with their fleecing the masses - even something so 'indirect' as trying to draw attention away from the profiteers trying to save their butts and to promote people who really care and really are doing something about ending cannabis prohibition.
You know, I've been a member of this forum for many years and haven't really looked at anything besides the forum, and I only look at 3 sections of the forum. Well, today I read a couple of messages in the recovery section and decided I didn't want to go there ... I spent 7 years believing their dogma, and I quit going back, because it didn't work. My problem was depression and I really don't want to get into all that now, but I will say if I'd only known then what I know now and tried cannabis I probably would have been able to complete my career and have a comfortable retirement.
But, I digress...
...but don't you have a place for people to advertise worthy books, projects, products, on here?
PS, it just came to mind that the local city council used "blogs" (comments in only forums - which are not BLOGS, at least not in my mind) to defend banning smoking in the parks or something like that.
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