Comments on: Help, help I’m being oppressed! http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/ University of Colorado Daily Student News Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: Just an observation http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1327 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:01:30 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1327 CU: Allows 25 feet tall posters of dead fetuses with radical activists. Allows someone with a bible to yell at me in between classes saying I’m “going to hell” for getting an education instead of praising Jesus. Allows people to come up to me trying to force Christian beliefs. (“free speech”)

Denies: a bunch of hippies smoking weed on campus for two to four hours. (considered a “disruption”)

I am not a fan of the fact that there are young children, high school students, and old creepy hippies on my campus while it lights up for a few hours one day out of the year, but I can’t help but wonder how it’s any different than the radical religious people who yell at us on campus on a weekly basis? If we are going to regulate this event, which is totally fine with me, then please also make these psycho morons, who harass me while I’m trying to further my education and knowledge, move to another campus. Thank you.

]]> By: Katy http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1324 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:38:38 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1324 You are awesome… this is so true, for anyone who has witnessed 4/20 gatherings, they do nothing to promote legalization of marijuana, which is the goal everyone is trying to say they are working toward, but are an excuse for rebellious high school kids and jobless 30-40 somethings who live on their mothers’ couch. Well done

]]> By: Nick http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1317 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:43:32 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1317 I swear to god I’ll pistol whip the next guy that says shenanigans.

http://www.protias.com/Pictures/Super%20Troopers/o%20hagan%20-%20shenanigans.jpg

]]> By: AJ http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1316 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:54:02 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1316 Its funny, the general public can’t break a state law, but the state can break a federal law?? Yea thats logical. People seem to forget it is a federal law that bands marijuana. So if they state can break a federal law (under the BS reason of medical purposes), whats so different that a bunch of college kids do it. Honestly it makes more sense for college kids to do it then our elected politicians. This is beyond stupid, all this is doing is moving the people to a different location, so say… idk… the coors event center? Or another field, hows Farrand sound? Like come on people, your making more press for this then there has ever been years past.

]]> By: conservative and damn proud http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1315 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:49:29 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1315 Ally-
Sorry but conservatives believe in the right to assemble and free speech just as much as the next liberal. I may be relatively conservative but I believe strongly in human rights(such as gay rights, right to abortion, etc). Does that blow your mind? Not all conservatives are religious naysayers who want to take all of your rights away. I hope you read this post and I hope it at least makes you think before you bash other people like that(though it is your right to say so).
As for the article. Bringing in the Occupy movement is a perfect example of this logically flawed argument. Occupy began as a protest against the corrupt business on Wall St, not as a debate about economic equality. [I personally believe that some people’s definition of economic equality IS a violation of our rights in and of itself, but that’s besides the point]. Now the movement has grown into something completely different and comparing the two and condemning them for rallying for 4/20 rights is unimportant and completely off topic of this article.
4/20 at boulder isn’t a public display of idiocracy (though it may turn into that), it is a tradition and is relavent to current marijuana legalization issues. If the fact that people smoke marijuana bothers you….your probably in the wrong city/state…sorry. It is a protest and it is a valid right of the people to assemble to fight against policies that they believe are wrong. A concept our country was founded on.
Also, as a former psychology major, I know that marijuana can be used for more than just back aches (and for cancer patients…you forgot to mention that one). It can be used for anxiety. Think about it, people are prescribed xanax daily for anxiety issues and one of the side affects of the drug can sometimes be addiction. Again as others have stated, should we control who and when people can be prescribed anti psychotic or anti anxiety or anti depressants for that matter? Where do we draw the line on our human need to control everything around us? Is it worse to use xanax to control your anxiety or marijuana? Double-edged sword as some would say. You can’t expect people to stop doing things because you don’t like it, you can’t expect people to stop saying things because you don’t like hearing them, please stop trying to control others actions and start focusing on your own.

]]> By: Jeff http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1312 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:38:47 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1312 what a fucking kissass. People do drugs. A persons right to CHOOSE is what’s really fucked up here. If I was to choose to do something that doesn’t effect anyone else I can freely. Hell even somethings that do effect you like me calling you a pussy is even legal. If being gay is your idea of human human rights being exercised then being stoned is what? Crossing the line that you made up in your minuscule premise to try to understand something as complex as human rights? What if being ANYTHING was a human right, and people interfering were just dicks not cops.

]]> By: Right to assemble http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1311 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:29:25 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1311 I don’t get everyone attacking this movement saying they are not really dissenting. Who are you to determine that, do we want people picking and choosing what is and isn’t a proper protest. The beauty of the US and the first amendment is that it protects speech and the right to assemble, start attacking one group on the grounds that their protest is illegitimate and it opens the door for such attacks on more “legitimate” causes. I may not agree with what they have to say but I will, with every ounce of my being, defend their right to say it. America the “free” …

]]> By: S http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1309 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:28:49 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1309 Jimmy John,
Marijuana rights are JUST like womens/black/gay rights…. “getting fucked up on drugs” is a civil right – a person should be able to choose what to do with their own body if it doesnt hurt others. It is your opinion, and the opinion of many narrow-minded people that people just get “fucked up” on drugs. But in fact, marijuana is less physically harmful and less addictive than caffeine, and it seems that moderate use actually promotes a HEALTHY lifestyle, if you look at any objective scientific study. To you it means getting “fucked up”, to others its the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

]]> By: James McVaney http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1308 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:05:48 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1308 Ryan Sterner – May I suggest taking some more critical thinking and writing classes. Your use of slang and derogatory statements is sophomoric – at best.

]]> By: Jimmy Johns http://cuindependent.com/2012/04/17/help-help-im-being-oppressed/#comment-1306 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:13:20 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=33788#comment-1306 @anonymous: You really want to compare people clogging up the streets to smoke weed with gay rights? Do you see where the fatal flaw in your logic comes in? One deals with human rights and equality, whereas the other deals with a getting fucked up on drugs.

Also, this article isn’t taking a stance on marijuana reform and consumption. It’s a response to the movements that are rising because of CU’s decision that takes a more conservative look at the problem of “taking back 4/20.”

What you just said about gay rights is at the core of the articles argument. Gay rights is a worthy cause for civil disobedience because it deals with basic human rights. Those are a people that are actually being oppressed.

If you really think that admins not letting kids smoke on the quad is oppressive you really are suffering from some first world problems.

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