Massachusetts medical marijuana opposition forgets to register domain

At election time in Massachusetts every voter gets a copy of the state produced 'Information Guide.' Inside this guide, with the usual pros and cons, are URLs for the folks leading the support or opposition. An interested voter clicked on the VoteNoOnQuestion3.org website, the listed opposition to a current medical marijuana initiative, only to discover THEY FORGOT TO REGISTER IT.

Now a parody site with a ton of fake "facts" about marijuana lives in its place. Did you know that "No marijuana smoker has ever been successful?"

It’s a well known fact that smoking marijuana can lead to a dependency on Twinkies. If medical marijuana were legalized in Massachusetts, the increase in Twinkie consumption could possibly lead to shortages of Twinkies across the Bay State...

Thanks Joe!

• [chellberty]

  The site looks like a Win not a Fail to me. The easiest way to know if someone has been bitten is if they will settle for snowballs.

  • [technobach]

     Win for the site owner.  Fail for the people who came up with the domain, and put all their money into advertising for it instead of registering it.

• [Jason]

  I think Woody Harrelson would be amused that these guys used a cap from Zombieland haha

• [pjcamp]

  I thought *weed* was supposed to make you stupid, but apparently it is no weed that does it.

  I’m such a noob.

  • [Iron Clad Burrito]

    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.

• [Nathaniel Lovin]

  So, apparently, the election office either fixed it online, or the booklet’s website was a typo. Either way, here’s the actual vote no campaign’s response to the website:
  http://mavotenoonquestion3.com/the-joke-is-on-us-or-is-it/

  • [Duncan20903]

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

    • [Daniel Tobias]

       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.

      • [Duncan20903]

        Thank you for sniggling.

  • [EH]

    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?

• [soylent_plaid]

  I’m going to hate myself for this, but…

  It looks like the opposition’s website plans…

  *sunglasses*

  …went up in smoke.

  • [Pedantic Douchebag]

    Shhhhhhhhh.

  • [ImmutableMichael]

    Dude…..

• [AwesomeRobot]

  Anyone have more information on this guide? As a MA resident I’ve never seen one. 

  • [Jessamyn West]

     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

• [Sarge Misfit]

  We have to draw a line! If the Twinkies go, next will be Doritos.  Then Ho Hos. Pizza. Chili fries! Who knows where the insanity will end!!

  Oh damn, now I gots the munchies ….

  • [ImmutableMichael]

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

• [cbwallday]

  Am I the only one who is surprised that it wasn’t the *supporters* of Question 3 who forgot?

  • [Ender Wiggin]

    you are.   now you know better.   antidrug warriors will always fail, because in their coal black hearts they know that they’re evil, greedy apes… fighting a failed war against their own fellow citizens.   Hopefully soon they’ll all move on to teh gays.  (yes, i tend to assume all those prosecuting war on fellow citizens are mysogynistic, racist, homophobes as well)

    • [invictus]

      A comment made unintentionally hilarious by your choice of handle.

    • [Xyzzy]

       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.)

    • [ackpht]

      Oh, I’m not mysogynistic.

  • [Xyzzy]

     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.

• [jerwin]

  Sadly, the Secretary of State has updated the voter’s guide, and the online version points to a different website entirely. We live in an ephemeral age, where the mistakes of the past do not matter.

  • [Boundegar]

    In fact, one of our Presidential candidates has staked his campaign on this.

    • [Brad Ackerman]

      One?

  • [kmoser]

    Flip-floppers!

  • [Ender Wiggin]

    but the printed ones can’t be changed  :)

• [AnthonyI]

  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..

  • [disillusion]

    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.

    • [AwesomeRobot]

      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.

      • [wysinwyg]

        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.

  • [Brad Ackerman]

    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.)

  • [Toby]

    “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!

    • [mccrum]

       Well, there goes my afternoon…

  • [Daniel Tobias]

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

  • [Selena60]

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

• [bjacques]

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

• [Eddie Perkins]

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

• [Brainspore]

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

  • [spacedmonkey]

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

    • [BillStewart2012]

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

• [mattgriffin]

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