Actually, I appreciate the product list...there's two or three of 'em I've added to my shopping list. Shit, I might buy a few extras to cover a few of y'all's bullshit boycott. (I love cereals) I'll double-check the expiration dates, and see how many I can afford.
Corporate america is not the problem. Ones lack of personal responsibility, and current federal law is the problem...yet I hear no mention of y'alls plan to boycot Obama, the feds, state offices, or your idiot neighbors for selling cannabis to kids...
This has been my problem with NORML for many years now...they talk a big talk, misrepresent what it is we need to fight for, and have wasted thirty or fourty-something years (and shitloads of stoners' donations) attacking corporate america, when it's the fucking laws that need to change.
A few years ago, when I lived in Vegas, the idiots associated with our local NORMAL office went to turn-in the decriminalization petition (signed with thousands of signatures, qualifying it to be listed on state ballots) Judge turned them away. (they had miscounted the signatures, and were short by a few hundred) Later, after the signatures were acquired, they "forgot" to get the petition back to court on time, to be on the ballot. It had to wait till the next year, with fresh petitions, another canvassing crew, new signatures, additional filing fees... Par for the NORML course.
Never once have I seen them (NORMAL) try to organize responsible adults or even med patients...to help cary the torch of acceptability in our national culture...it's always someone like the Cheech and Chong representation of cannabis users that are dragged-out and propped on a pedestal to carry the message, and usually it's on a sit-com, at that.
Phelps has admitted he was caught red-handed, said he was wrong for breaking his contract, and has been appologetic to family, friends, his employer, and his fans, for breaking their trust. Yet NORML, in it's usual approach, blames Kellogs. Yeah...this tactic has worked very well for the past few decades, hasn't it. Attack a company for following legal and insurance guidelines, for the safety and health of all of it's employees. That argument has never worked in the past, and doubtful it will in the future...but hey...we'll keep beating that dead horse, you keep sending your donations.
Altho I felt it "cool" to support NORMAL 20 or 30 years ago, they've been ineffective, and in my honest opinion...a waste of cannabis resources.
I respect Phelps more for his humility and maturity with how he has handled this, than I do with NORML trying to exploit him and his situation.
His attitude, in my eyes, does more good for cannabis' image, than anything NORML has come up with the past 30 years.
WHAT...? A cannabis user with morals and a sense of what personal responsibility is? Is this even possible?
MMMMM...Frosted Flakes...
re: the dust bowl...
All that other bullshit has nothing to do with cannabis, and is therefore irrelevant. But, parroting someone elses garbage will get us nowhere, now will it? Where was this attitude, a month before the Phelps story broke, or has this been gathered as a result of the Phelps story, and throwing everything against the wall works for y'all, huh? <sigh> This folks, is what NORML does with your cash.