Are you willing to fight for your rights? How about peaceful civil disobedience?

The prohibition of marijuana is terrible for our country. That's discussed enough here that I feel I don't need to explain why. I'm not going to say that it's the same as the struggles experienced by the civil rights movement, because it clearly isn't, but there are enough similarities that I think borrowing their tactics might be extremely effective.

Here's what I am imagining: if we can get thousands of well-dressed people, most of whom have no criminal history, most of whom are good college students, many of whom are white to gather in a public place (NOT SMOKING, as smoking in public isn't necessarily a right that we should be fighting for right of the bat) in possession of an illegal, but not unreasonable amount of marijuana, informing the police and media of what they are doing, and perhaps prepared with signs and civil discourse to explain the purpose of this exercise, I think it may be fairly effective. I don't smoke, but I'd be willing to get arrested for this. The most logical place to start is California, but it could happen nationally. The single most important part of this exercise is that we are peaceful and civil, as the goal is not to change the law immediately, but demonstrate that the law is unenforceable and unfair and that pot smokers aren't doing anybody any harm, in order to sway public opinion and apply political pressure.

While both are important, voting and talking about this on the internet alone are not enough to effect any change. We need to do more.

So, are you interested, do you think your friends would be interested? If so, let's get to organizing!