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We likely are going to have to organize again real soon once the City Council
decides to hear Trutanich's offering of completely implausible bullshit.

If and when that gets passed, the fight really does turn to the courtroom and ballot measures to correct what was not originally anticipated and thus has been left unprotected.

That said how about a grassroots effort to organize our version of the million-man/woman/child/dog march. This will need a lot of coordinating, but Bratton Basher and others are correct in that there cannot be apathy when we extract our revenge at the polls.

It would be nice if we had a massive (six figure or beyond turn out) of registered Los Angeles voters so these publicly elected officials can start living in fear that they are going to have to return to the private sector for paychecks come their next election cycle.

I think ultimately though we are really going to have to push for statewide legalization/decriminalization (seize the moon) and then we as the side with leverage would decide what concessions we are willing to make in the name of appeasement.

Perhaps there is an opportunity for a "WoodPot" bringing together California (both North and South) in a gathering of Artists, Research Scientists, Doctors, Economists, Activists, and Concerned Citizens in an education and celebration of cannabis, culminating in a voter registration drive and media campaign to eradicate the negative stigmas that the Federal Government (e.g. Law Enforcement - Federal/State/Local) have worked so diligently over the years to perpetuate.

The time has come where Michael Phelps or any other public figure should not have to apologize for cannabis use, but rather be applauded for their progressive spirit in embracing it.