10 minute activism (YOUR HERB NEEDS YOU!)

[Guest flinchvoid]

(BTW, I'm aware that most of you are aussie, I was asked to post on here by one of your compatriots, and the UK could use your help)

 

The following story was posted on the BBC web site (and presumably regional tv). The story contains the implication that 'cannabis addiction' led a man to shoot his neighbour in a dispute.

 

Although the story acknowledges that the police found the man in a drunken coma, this is seen as a mark on his character and not the primary driver of the incident.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...ire/3399805.stm

 

This is a lie. We cannot and will not allow *our* public broadcaster to promote ignorance about cannabis. If you're serious about wanting a change in the laws and attitudes toward the weed, take 10 minutes to register your disapproval (link marked feedback on the BBC site, accessible from that story); write; phone; turn up at the damned gates.

Complain! LOUDLY!

 

The record no. of complaints for a BBC programme is around 500. We can walk that without even trying.

 

Mail this to every interested party you know and make sure they do the same. Back up your points with relevant, irrefutable information; let's generate a total blitz of complaints and make sure that this blatant nonsense is exposed for what it is - the alternative is that we let this stand on public record.

 

I include my own for reference.

 

-- flinchvoid

 

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Dear Sir/Madam

 

I write concerning the referenced story. I am frankly stunned at the logical fallacy of the piece which attempts to link cannabis use and violent crime while glossing over the proven relation between alcohol and the same.

 

Cannabis has never been linked to antisocial behaviours other than the illegality of obtaining and using the drug; alcohol on the other hand at peak times accounts for some 80% of NHS A&E admissions.

 

I feel that the facts speak for themselves and include a selection of articles for your perusal which should at least begin to set the record straight.

 

Yours,

 

-- [name removed for spambots]

 

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?...440&LinkID=2515

 

http://www.alcoholpolicysolutions.n...ility_crime.htm

 

http://www.ias.org.uk/publications/...ert9803_p2.html

[Luke Skywalker]

Thanks for the post mate... I'll shoot off an email today. I'd encourage others to do the same. The BBC is "supposed" to be without bias. Hmph. :angry:

 

Hey flinchvoid, you should join up and become a member, we always welcome those from across the seas at Oz Stoners.

[Guest flinchvoid]

Heh... if this experiment in 10 minute activism works I'll be signed up to every damned forum on the net, have ye no fear mate

 

Seriously though, the beeb *should* be impartial and *have* to publish lists of the complaints they receive. Let's get this one in the public eye.

 

Cheers for the support

 

-- FlinchVoid

[mr_magoo]

Absolutely.. I think as a society we've become quite lazy and very few of us are willing to take action but often complain about the injustices and absurdidties we witness around us. An email is all it takes, a couple of mins, i'm sending mine when finished with this post.

 

I am a big supporter of activism such as this - i'd like to put in my 2c about some of the issues over here (and do occasionally but feel insignificant as an individual) but have the numbers in oz stoners behind the cause

[Chev]

Hey, I think the link may be broken, I get an error page. I'd like to write a reply

It's good that there are more and more people getting interested in the activism side of things, we need change. And people that are willing to actually do something about it!

[twentythree]

written letters are always taken much more seriously then emails, thats why half the tv broadcasts are aimed at senior cits cause they sit around all day writing letters (just kidding)