Drug user liberation advocates ought to hold a formal appearance instead of trying to look like hippies, all these demonstrations make the drug users look retarded in comparison to any uniformed opposition.
Groups of persons against drug prohibition ought to have formal wear such as suits or other types of uniforms to be able to combat the influence from formal authorities.
A crowd of casual clothed, hippie-wannabe, exhibitionist freaks cannot persuade a conservative populace towards siding with them.
For all public appearances I strongly advise from my thorough research in crowd psychology that any drug advocacy public appearances should be done in formal wear, modest uniforms or at the very least the extent to which a person can attend with their best most tidy clothing.
Do not go out looking like a junkie / outcast / freak. It will only harm you when recorded and the broader scene. It is completely counterintuitive to attempt to revive failed countercultural movements or attend with an "IDGAF" attitude.
Drug advocates are already ostracized by the lumpen and reactionary majorities, PR with everyday clothing will not serve to try to "normalize" or "blend in". When a prohibitionist dresses leisurely their opinion is taken in normally, when a drug advocate dresses leisurely they are always going to end up being ridiculed and degraded. It would not be as easy for the opposition to degrade persons or call them "degenerate, jobless, bums, junkies" and such when faced with a crowd of people in uniforms / suits and formal wear.
It is strongly advisory to look like a WASP in order to combat WASPs.
Study the strategies of the opposition. See how conservative content creators in public speeches have for years farmed millions if not billions of views off of the contrast of a "principled man versus gender freak abomination" - Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, TFP Student action etc.
If you don't hold a formal appearance in a public event odds are you will be turned into a lolcow for content farming, guaranteed if you do not behave yourself, speak loudly / obnoxiously, have a meltdown and/or are generally unprepared to speak on the subject of the event. To be able to counter any opposition on a subject of interest a person must learn their opposition by mentally pretending to be a part of it (as the saying goes, put yourself in their shoes) in order to predict all the possible arguments and traps they could lay out and how they could be countered.
I have personally taken the task of studying various religious fanatics and secular conservative vermin for the country in which I reside - those of who will surely arise as opposition if there is potential change to come in the matter of mobilization against drug prohibition.
It is a tedious process of LARPing and imagining oneself as part of it the opposition to understand it but also most importantly - reading and studying all material provided by the opposition.
It is highly encouraged to read and become used to reading texts unfavorable to one's worldview to be able to understand and dismantle them by ruthless criticism.
We are not in a stage where anything meaningful can be done, drug users and producers as well as other persons interested are atomized and not united in functioning groups and networks enough.
The few groups that exist around the world are often controlled opposition that boil down to calling for reforms for decades and only serve in practice as controlled opposition to the WOD and the nations that implemented it. The structure of said groups is broadly unfavorable to combatting drug prohibition (NGOs, Advocacy, MLM schemes, hippie cults and broadly useless liberal reformists), it may be beneficial to only interact with them as to draw in the decent persons involved in the bottom layers of said groups to form entirely separate new ones.
Bring an end to handmade DIY signs, become a proficient person to influence.
Engineer threatening slogans that cannot be parodied.
A stern attitude is the perfect approach to public demonstrations.
The goal of public appearances should not be to try to persuade criminal gangster governments to get on your side, they ought to be to persuade the sympathetic persons and create sympathizers to expand organizations.
All of the criminal gangster governments cannot be persuaded to simply end prohibition in the interest of the public, they are only interested in profit and prohibition serves to be most profitable to their activity.
There is no need to have faith, but there is a great benefit to fanaticism in faith of inevitable victory, what WOD warriors must be reminded by proselytizing is that they will disappear sooner or later, drug prohibition cannot remain forever, every war meets its end, once drug prohibition is over the prohibitionists and their sympathizers will be punished severely beyond their imagination for all their wrongdoings in ways they will not be martyred for or saved by their beliefs, there will be no continuity for their beliefs and their prophecies aligning with the view of a "drug free world" will not come to fruition as long as humanity exists and as long as beings exist.
The end of drug prohibition may or may not come to be in our lifetimes, it is highly unlikely that it will come to be in our lifetimes, but it is highly likely it will come for the majority of the rest of the species' existence. The period of this drug prohibition that continues to be a stain in history as the stunted development of the species is to eventually be wiped clean or forever memorized in its failure.
Even if humanity is to completely annihilate itself without ending drug prohibition, drugs and organisms that interact with them will surely remain, as chemistry and botany forever unfold.
Where matter exists, chemistry exists; where biology includes plants, botany exists.
Drugs will exist as long as matter and existence does.
Towards a union of drug producers, consumers and sympathizers in interest. For a worldwide fraternity towards a greater civilization. Death to the war on drugs.
True. It's like as if the Media™ wants to fish for the more undesirable parts of drug legalisation rather than the good sides. This may increase usage in the short term but people are more drawn to risk since weed is illegal and can get you prosecuted by the Glowies
Who cares, just get high
>>2661205The prohibitionists care to prevent that
I mean, the "respectability" strategy have its limit, plenty of people have tried that and drugs are still illegals sadly. Same logic as "bring american flag not mexican flag to protest"
or "do not burn american flags, bad optic" lol
>>2661242It was a call to coopt what works and do away with what doesn't. No need to completely copy the opposition. Take a lesson from Franco's tidy blue uniforms that were and still are workers' clothing. The GDR's FDJ did the exact same thing, unforgettable iconic look.
>>2661258Also notice how even the GDR's flag continues use of the bourgeoisie Weimar Republic's tricolor incorporating it, the same way the practice of heraldry was coopted to make way for so called socialist heraldry which went onto break and change the tradition forever, butthurt heraldry hobbyists to this day express their anti-communism by mourning the appropriation of their sacred symbolism.
>>2661262Russophobes try to argue that their previous abomination of a flag for Luhansk looked better than the current flag of LNR, its so ridiculous from a subjective standpoint that the ideological bias comes out to show it champions inferior chauvinism (yeah it's terrible but at least its ours) over foreign success (yes it's better but we have to act like its worse because its theirs).
Its a complete loser mentality, people succeed a lot more when copying other people's success.