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Facebook just said no to ‘Just Say Now’

Posted on Aug 30, 2010 in Opinion

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After 10 days and 38 million impressions, Facebook suddenly reversed its previous position and told Just Say Now that they could no longer use the image of a marijuana leaf in their advertising and pulled the ads from their site.
It is the decision of Facebook to reclassify it in the same category as tobacco.

According to Facebook’s communication rep Adam Noyes, an image of a pot leaf is classified with all smoking products and was therefore unacceptable for use on Facebook.

Even though, Facebook has game applications like Pot Farm, What Famous Stoner are You? and Pass the Joint, they have decided to treat the legalization movement as if it was an advertisement for a pack of cigarettes, and that is just not the case.

Just Say Now is about changing drug policy in this country; it is not an encouragement to smoke marijuana. The United States is in desperate need of a change in its drug policy.

Prohibition is the biggest reason behind the violence on our borders. It causes the arrest of over 750,000 Americans on marijuana possession charges – just possession, not trafficking or distributing – each year, and it prevents a valuable natural medicine from getting to patients who so dearly need it.

It is hard to believe that anyone could consider the prohibition of marijuana beneficial, considering the costs in law enforcement and detention, as well as the destruction and hardship imposed on individuals and families facing the effects of illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, chronic pain, and many others.

Legalization is an important issue to many of those in the college age range, and for many college students, if it is not on Facebook, they do not know about it.

So many of us keep up with what is going on in the world today through social networking. For an organization like Facebook, which is supposed to be enlightened and in-tune with today’s generation, to censor a political issue due to 90 years of spurious propaganda is, to say the least, dumbfounding.

It is time to for Facebook – and everyone else for that matter – to realize that Americans have been lied to about marijuana!

Marijuana is not the evil substance that it has been portrayed to be. Studies by Harvard University, UCLA, UC-Davis, and countless foreign organizations have shown that marijuana does not pose nearly as many harmful effects as alcohol or tobacco, and that it does not have the same addictive qualities as these substances or as harmful drugs likecocaine, meth or heroin.

Even the American Medical Association suggests that marijuana be changed to a schedule two drug, which would make it legal for medicinal use.

Now the time has come to end this prohibition.

Hemp can be used to create composites as strong as fiberglass minus the massive amounts of heat and energy required to make fiberglass. This means that it is cheaper and can be used in the construction of cars, houses, and thousands of other items.

An acre of hemp can be used to create as much as eight times the amount of ethanol and bio-diesel as the same acre of corn.

Marijuana can be used as a medicine, which will be evident this coming spring when the Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act goes before the Alabama legislature in an attempt to make Alabama the 15th U.S. state to legalize medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is currently legal in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

There are many more uses for this plant, and when you consider the atrocities caused by prohibition, the many positive uses of the plant, and the fact that it is not anywhere near the dangerous substance that propaganda has portrayed it to be, you have to wonder why marijuana isn’t already legal.

Email: roncrumptons_opinion@live.com

 




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