Boycott Starbucks for Funding Anti-Marijuana Lobbying Efforts !

[garybeck]

yes folks it's time to make your own lattes at home.


from SaferChoice.Org

Starbucks and other businesses are sponsoring the Arrest and Prosecution Industry's fight to maintain Marijuana Prohibition. Help us fight back!

According to recent reports, law enforcement groups are meddling in Colorado's legislative process in hopes of rolling back the state's progress toward a safer, more rational approach to marijuana. In fact, a bill that would shut down all medical marijuana dispensaries in the state and allow them to continue harassing medical marijuana patients has been introduced on behalf of the law enforcement community, which is now leaning on legislators to support it.

Perhaps even more unsettling is the source of the financial support behind the Arrest and Prosecution Industry's war on marijuana. In particular, the group spearheading anti-marijuana lobbying efforts -- the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA) -- is sponsored by several local and national businesses, including Starbucks Coffee, Glock handguns, and -- you guessed it -- members of the alcohol industry! It is clear that these guys are not out to protect people; they're out to continue harrasing marijuana users and ensure that alcohol -- the substance that contributes most to the crime and violence that keeps them busy -- is the only legal recreational drug available.

By giving your business to Starbucks and these other companies, YOUR money is supporting the CDIA's shady anti-marijuana lobbying effort! So...

If you support marijuana policy reform, please take the following actions and lend the power of your voice -- and your status as a consumer -- to this important effort:

1. Boycott Starbucks, as well as these other businesses; and

2. Send Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz a quick e-mail message and let him know you will not give Starbucks your business until it ends its sponsorship of CDIA's efforts to maintain Marijuana Prohibition.

Link where you can easily send an email to Starbucks CEO:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5559/t/4030/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=3103

[onehandle]

1. Boycott Glock handguns too?

The Gungeoneers will have a word or two about that.

[appal_jack]

20. I'll boycott 'em

Glock = ugly-ass plastic guns ergonomically designed for Teutonic-clawed-behemoths with triple-jointed wrists.

Supposedly legendary reliability, but meh.

If Glock, Inc. is anti-freedom, then that's one more reason why I will never own one of their pistols.

-app

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Dumb move on Starfucks part.

Stoners need caffeine too, and sometimes they're too high to make their own coffee.

[mitchtv]

5. mmmm a doobie and a cappuccino to go

please. Accept no substitutions' I never buy Starbucks

[begin_within]

3. Boycott them because their coffee is horribly bitter and undrinkable too.

Ick! Just the thought of Starbucks coffee puts a bitter taste in my mouth.

[CoffeeCat]

8. I buy the grounds...

...and I can't drink any other coffee but Starbuck's. Everything else tastes
like river water to me. I'm used to the flavor---tastes like burnt caramel.

[garybeck]

12. I like the flavor too, but I have learned to like Equal Exchange French Roast just as much

[jmowreader]

4. I'm boycotting Starbucks until they start making drinkable coffee

I guess I can throw "wants to keep weed illegal" in there too. Somehow I think weed will be legal before Starbucks quits burning its beans.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Do people not drink coffee when high?

[CoffeeCat]

7. Why would Starbuck's do this?

Isn't the majority of Starbuck's clientele granola-eating hipsters who are probably
stoned when they come in to get their daily mochachino with extra foam?

[garybeck]

11. You got that right. I have no idea. Maybe they

just need a wake up call to realize the stupidity.

[piratefish08]

9. I boycott them already

because their shitty coffee is also overpriced.........

[defendandprotect]

10. Ok ... you got it!!

[Jax]

13. "law enforcement groups are meddling" fuck the thugs

with the guns and badges too. Search and seizure so they can sit on their fat right wing asses.

Starbucks sucks, Schultz is a slime ball.

[csziggy]

14. I boycott Starbucks because they put their store across from the locally owned coffee shop

I prefer.

And their coffee sucks and is overpriced. For what one Starbucks coffee costs, I get get a coffee and a bagel at the local place. Locally owned, locally baked bagels and pastries, guaranteed responsibly grown coffee wins over the big corporation in my book. Of course, I go out for coffee about three times a year so my patronage will not make a difference in who stays alive.

[madmom]

18. But that's ok, because they're not walmart.....(do I need the sarcasm thingie?)

[krabigirl]

24. yep! They do that all the time. I will never go to Starbucks again. Their coffee sucks, too.

[WeDidIt]

15. I boycotted Starbucks years ago for making shitty coffee. n/t

[Romulox]

16. I enjoy Seattle's Best. nt

[anarch]

17. so, peddlers of a much more powerful and addictive drug than marijuana

are opposed to legalization of marijuana? Well that's just ridiculous.

If I were them, I'd be all for it...I bet they'd sell a shit-ton of hash-infused baked goods, pot lollipops, and so on if that stuff was allowed to be sold.

[montanto]

19. Done.

[dysfunctional press]

21. i boycott them because i NEVER drink coffee, or coffee drinks.

in my entire 49 years, i've had about a quarter cup, total...one small sip at a time. :puke:

[KonaKane]

22. What do you expect. They are competing substances.

Who's going to jones for that coffee jolt from today's house blend, if it's just as easy to roll one and bake?

[krabigirl]

23. I've been boycotting Starbucks for 10 years. Hate that place.

[Echo In Light]

25. Well, I love both weed and coffee...but never give SB any business w/their insane prices

[bigwillq]

26. I've never bought anything there

Stopped in a few times to get my sister a hot chocolate but it was her money.

[G_j]

27. I'll boycott them, but

sending a letter through the link requires for an address, no thanks.
Just send them an email, saying you'll boycott them.

[RedCappedBandit]

28. Shouldn't be too hard

I hate coffee, and I hate starbucks.

The only way I like coffee is if it's filled with sugar and cream.. and that makes it far too unhealthy.

[tigereye]

29. that's so bizarre - what, they see relaxation of MM laws as threats to them?

[TheKentuckian]

30. Will do but to be fair I usually boycott them for crappy java.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

31. Not a penny...........n/t