Getting rid of google ads: Raising money for organisations that are trying to end prohibition
Just thought I would give a little update on what I’m up to right now.
As some are aware, what I am planning to do during my sabbatical from this site is to set up two other websites. Both will be related to The Language of Mathematics (see Table of Contents for list of what has been completed so far).
The first site will be a personal site dedicated to building a comprehensive body of work to help those interested in learning high school mathematics. The second website will mirror everything from the first site. While the personal site will be dedicated to making enough money for me to support my lifestyle, the second site will be geared towards raising money for organisations that are actively working towards ending prohibition. This will be a multifaceted project.
Once I track down all the data that I need to make a convincing argument as to why this needs to be done at this time I will present the information in Part 3 of “In Reaction to Marc Emery’s Extradition: What I plan to do to help end the ‘War on Drugs’” (Part 1, Part 2). For those interested, a non-numerical version of my reasoning behind this move is presented in; “The solution to our environmental woes is to end prohibition: Planting the seeds of their destruction”.
The short version is this: Following Emery’s arrest in 2005, the head of the DEA at the time, Karen Tandy, released the following statement;
“Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group - is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement… Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.”
If the DEA is willing to spend millions of dollars and years in proceedings to extradite a Canadian to the United States in the hopes of preventing a few hundred thousand dollars from flowing to “marijuana legalization groups”, then it is to humanities best interest to make sure that funds continue to flow to these organisations.
Most are aware that lobbyists control domestic and foreign policy for the United States of America, so we might as well support those lobbyists that are actively working towards improving our lives instead of those who are only working towards increasing profits for corporations.
Hence, my plans are to become a fundraiser for “drug legalization lobbyists”, while at the same time teaching the language of mathematics. Exciting. As a bonus, teaching math and helping to end prohibition complement each other. Those who understand math know that America’s ‘War on Drugs’ is retarded, so the more people that learn math the sooner prohibition will end, it is, after all, the only logical choice.
It is going to take me some time to set-up the math websites, but I really want to start raising funds for these organisations as soon as possible. So, what I am in the process of doing right now is replacing ‘google ads’ on this site with ads for the organisations listed below. The extra exposure and traffic that these grassroots organisations will receive from these ads will be well worth the effort.
My PhotoShop abilities are quite limited so please bear with me while I take some time to create these ads. They will slowly begin to appear in the centre and right columns in the next few days. I haven’t figured out how to replace the ‘google ads’ that appear at the bottom of each post with one that cycles through my own database, but once I do, those ads will also be replaced (this will most likely be done in the next phase, after the last post is made on chycho).
The list of organisations that I’m building ads for follows. Please drop me a line if you know of any other organisations that belong on this list.
Peace,
chycho
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
www.maps.org - Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
www.mpp.org - Educators For Sensible Drug Policy (EFSDP)
www.efsdp.org - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
www.leap.cc - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
www.norml.org and www.norml.ca - The November Coalition
www.november.org - Students for Sensible Drug Policy
www.ssdp.org - Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER)
www.saferchoice.org - Drug Policy Alliance (DPA Network)
www.drugpolicy.org - Erowid
www.erowid.org - The Media Awareness Project
www.mapinc.org
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