Anti-Medical Marijuana Committee Fails To Register Published URL, Hilarity Ensues
from the you-can't-like,-OWN-a-URL,-man dept
Time for a pop quiz: get out your no. 2 iPads and see if you can figure out which steps in this process are out of order.It's election season, a time when man's (and more recently, woman's) thoughts turn towards shutting off the TV, radio and phone until mid-November. But! Things must be voted on, including such controversial issues as legalizing medical marijuana and authorizing dispensaries. As an opponent of weed-based medicines, you vow to fight this with every ounce/gram of your being. You set your plan in action.
1. Pick a name for your committee. ("No on Question 3")
2. Pick out a suitable URL ("votenoonquestion3.org")
3. Get your committee and its pertinent information added to the official voters' guide (both print and online.)
4. Register URL.
5. Become aghast.
Can anyone point out where Vote No on Question 3 went wrong? Here are some visual aids, taken from votenoonquestion3.org:
You see, the internet is like magic. And like most magic, it can be used for entertainment purposes. All the do-gooding in the world doesn't amount to much if you forget to register your URL. While you're busy enjoying that "new ink" smell of freshly printed Voter's Guides, someone quicker on the draw is undermining your "marijuana is bad" propaganda proselytizing information with hilariously over-the-top headlines.
The good news is that the online voters' guide sports the corrected URL: mavotenoonquestion3.com
The bad news is that the paper version will carry the old URL permanently. Of course, very few people are willing to type in a URL by hand, but as news of this blunder spreads, the fake site with the real URL will be receiving much more attention, voters' guide correction or no.
Here's the official reaction from No on Question 3 spokesman, Kevin Sabet:
"It's funny and upsetting, I guess, at the same time."Yeah. Largely the first part. And to think, the committee can't even blame a late afternoon smokeout for the mental slip.
This statement, however, seems both more on point and more disingenuous:
The group sent out a press release saying proponents of medical marijuana were tampering with the democratic process through “underhanded efforts.”Sabet admits the committee made a mistake and yet, the press release attempts to paint No on Question 3 as the victim of villainous pot smokers rather than treating it like the self-inflicted wound it is.
Oh, and here's more bad news for the "No" side:
The Globe notes that the No on Question 3 campaign has managed to collect all of $600 so far, compared to the $1 million or so that supporters of the initiative have received from Peter Lewis, a longtime patron of drug policy reform.Maybe it's time to admit your fears of a weed-loaded America are overblown, especially when you've just been outmaneuvered (and outspent) by a bunch of stoners.
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I need a Twinkie like I need a hole in the head !
That is right, there are no Twinkies,Candies, or Soda.
Say No To Twinkies.Those things will rot your gut.
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Re: I need a Twinkie like I need a hole in the head !
No kidding. Ho-hos all the way!
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Re: Re: I need a Twinkie like I need a hole in the head !
Ho-hos are bland and tasteless to me.
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Some Pretzel Logic...
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Awesome
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Man who stands on toilet seat
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think of the children all be given weed by terrorist to try to make them stop the strong 'merican history of startingc pointless wars; how strange and terrifying would to world be today if we didnt start these wars? lets just focus on high children for now
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And you want to be my latex salesman !?
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What the hell were they smoking?
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outsmarted by stoners
and funny for everyone else who isn't trying to impose bigoted views onto the rest out of a sense of misplaced righteousness. If you don't want weed don't smoke / eat it. problem solved.
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Some bigots will claim that if you think like that then you should decriminalize all drugs but it completely misses the fact that marijuana is a very light drug that has a limited addictive power if compared to heavier drugs. Decriminalizing marijuana will free resources for those heavier and damaging drugs.
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Reefer madness man. Stop the madness.
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/bob
I swear I haven't smoked anything!
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The real conspiracy
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P.S. I also believe that if weed is outlawed, you might as well make Religion illegal. Religion is probably 50 times more dangerous, in a universal sense... Not a sermon, just a thought. Peace.
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and they missed it!
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thanks!
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