Comments on: Massachusetts medical marijuana opposition forgets to register domain

By: Ender Wiggin

Ender Wiggin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:34:00 +0000

but the printed ones can’t be changed :)

By: mattgriffin

mattgriffin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:23:00 +0000

When we still had the Hostess factory in Natick, this would have never been a problem.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:02:00 +0000

I was going to say the fines from the civil penalties might be a reason for law enforcement to get involved, but I haven’t talked to a single person nailed on that yet. So I doubt it’s much of a source of revenue.

By: AwesomeRobot

AwesomeRobot — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:07:00 +0000

Not completely true, it’s already decriminalized — so the prison system has little to gain aside from dealers, who’d be still doing illegal stuff even under the proposed law.

By: ackpht

ackpht — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:34:00 +0000

Oh, I’m not mysogynistic.

By: Selena60

Selena60 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:38:00 +0000

Are there Cheeto stains on the webpage? There’s your answer.

By: BillStewart2012

BillStewart2012 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:36:00 +0000

That’s because marijuana really is the gateway drug to Twinkies.

By: Duncan20903

Duncan20903 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Thank you for sniggling.

By: Xyzzy

Xyzzy — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Probably… Keep in mind that a lot of people like me that support legalization haven’t used it, and feel it would be a better choice for our society as well as individuals within it.

By: Xyzzy

Xyzzy — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Except that the pro-legalization folks in Nevada accidentally forgot to even submit the petition back in 2004, according to another comment — as that person put it, politics are what make one a tad dim. (FWIW I’m pro-legalization.)

By: mccrum

mccrum — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Well, there goes my afternoon…

By: Daniel Tobias

Daniel Tobias — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:56:00 +0000

Actually, votenoonquestion3.com doesn’t belong either to the proponents, opponents, or parodists of this measure… it’s been registered by somebody else (under privacy protection) since 2006 (probably connected with some other “question 3″ somewhere else) and has no website on it at present. It’s the .org version that was advertised as the site against this question, but left unregistered until the parody site came up.

By: Daniel Tobias

Daniel Tobias — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:38:00 +0000

But they didn’t get the .org version of that domain… http://www.mavotenoonquestion3.org/

By: spacedmonkey

spacedmonkey — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Maybe because there aren’t any batter arguments than the fake site has.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:25:00 +0000

The interesting part is that the real site doesn’t have any better arguments against the initiative than the fake one.

By: Eddie Perkins

Eddie Perkins — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:10:00 +0000

While this site is awesome, I doubt it will help much. The people who vote against medical marijuana tend not to get sarcasm.

By: EH

EH — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:03:00 +0000

Nothing was fixed, they just registered a crappier domain name that nobody will ever remember.

And oh look who registered with Disqus today. Just for this?

By: Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:01:00 +0000

They’re mailed to every household in the state and include information on the ballot initiatives as well as lists of the candidates. You can contact the secretary of the commonwealth’s office to see why you haven’t been getting yours.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cisidx.htm

Or just get it online, but there are fewer lulz opportunities like this one.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleidx.htm

By: Duncan20903

Duncan20903 — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:37:00 +0000

That site was registered after the votenoonquestion3.com was appropriated by the friends of freedom.

By: kmoser

kmoser — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:20:00 +0000

Flip-floppers!

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:13:00 +0000

First they came for the Twinkies, but I did not complain because I was not a Twinkie…

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:11:00 +0000

Dude…..

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:58:00 +0000

“The person behind the satirical website is Scott Gacek. One might expect him to have an interest in “medical” marijuana because of the claimed benefit to a chronically ill person. However, online research about Mr. Gacek reveals a different interest. He is a photographer who has a hobby of posting pictures of young girls smoking pot on the web: 420.Girls4Ganja.com.”

oh noes!

By: bjacques

bjacques — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:37:00 +0000

The anti-Q3 group’s IT guy was smoking banana peels and morning glory seeds.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:26:00 +0000

Shhhhhhhhh.

By: Iron Clad Burrito

Iron Clad Burrito — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:07:00 +0000

Since this is about the opposite of what happened in Nevada in 2004 (where the MJ advocates forgot to submit the petition for the ballot), I’d wager that the answer to what makes one stupid is “politics,” and not “weed” or the lack thereof.

By: Brad Ackerman

Brad Ackerman — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Click on “Endorsements”. People whose religion requires that they force it on others at gunpoint, with a side of politicians who happen to have MDs. (Also the Mexican cartels, but that endorsement is omitted.)

By: Brad Ackerman

Brad Ackerman — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:50:00 +0000

One?

By: disillusion

disillusion — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:12:00 +0000

My guess is that it is most likely connected to the private prison system and law enforcement agencies in the state, seeing as those are the two that would benefit from the law not passing the most.

By: AnthonyI

AnthonyI — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:06:00 +0000

The opposition launched a website http://mavotenoonquestion3.com where they do acknowledge what happened to the domain listed on the pamphlet. What’s funny is that they try to paint the spoof website as having a secret agenda while at the same time they don’t come clean about their own website. Where the domain holder is anonymous and there is not a single name, organization, address or phone number associated with the site. I wonder if it’s a high dollar PR group or amateur working out of their parent’s basement..