Facebook says no to “Just Say Now” marijuana legalization campaign ads

DICK

Re: making big Tobacco more money….you’re right, but I really don’t care who makes money off of it or how. The point for me is the ending of a prohibition, not to “stick it to the man.”

In a large sense this is true. Cannabis, unlike tobacco requires no special curing. People will grow their own supply, buy from friends or even apply for licence to supply retailers if they have a green thumb and some space. It could become a serious home industry.

As for the FB argument against smoking, their claim might stand if cannabis were harmful, which it’s not, it’s just illegal. The image of it however, is not.

The problem with that comparison is that the tobacco companies were lying, and everyone knew it. They were, and to an extent still are, advertising and selling tobacco to kids, because it made them money.

The Just Say Now group, on the other hand, is not selling weed to people via facebook, nor do they directly profit from people smoking weed. There’s no reason that I see to believe that their goals are anything other than policy change.

When a group makes an argument insincerely, one should become more suspicious of the group rather than the argument itself. Someone else can make the same argument sincerely.

But the basic goals of stopping needless mass incarceration, wasting large amounts of money on at least the marijuana portion of the war on drugs would be accomplished. The net effect to the economy that comes from stopping incarcerations and prosecutions is worth thinking about, probably a lot more worth thinking about than the tax revenues.

There are a lot of benefits, and I suspect concern with the small pot farmer is probably the province of the small pot farmer, and the people that give them custom. It’s a shame, but the viability of black market small business isn’t really the biggest issue in the debate for me.

And growing it privately will still be illegal.

Because the strains will be patented, you see.

Can you smell it?

I can.

promote intoxication” or that “encourage excessive consumption” are banned.

Ah, but ads for “girlfriends” are still allowed for all males registered on facebook who’s relationship setting is set to “single”, yes? Because alcohol and tobacco are bad but running ads that treat women like a commodity are not? That makes total moral sense, hypocrites!

Having said that, I think this a terrific idea!

Ty Palmer :: Founder

Curing tobacco requires equipment. Curing pot requires jars.

facebook is a private company. they can do whatever they want on their private servers so long as it does not cause harm to an individual.

Who are you arguing with? No one here has advocated sending people to jail over it or creating new laws. What they are saying is that Facebook sucks. Facebook is free to act like assholes, and I am free to call them out for acting like assholes.

Freedom of speech includes the right to be an asshole about your speech. It however also gives you the right to other people out as assholes when you don’t like their speech.

I hope Google Me is turns out to be something even vaguely functional. Nothing would make me happier than deleting all of my content on Facebook and leaving it as a glorified address book that my grandmother and old school mates who I don’t want to talk to can see.