"Legalize Marijuana" Text Message Ploy

I got several text messages from my friends stating "Vote to legalize marijuana. This is for real. CNN today, Obama will consider w/ 1 million votes. Call 973-409-3274."

So I web-searched, and made the following discovery: http://current.com/items/90233922_marijuana-phone-poll-not-a-scam.htm .

"This number is one of many numbers created by the novelty-number company Humor Hotlines. Unlike other numbers from HH, Jeff Goldblatt (President and Founder of RHBrands.com) claims this is a legitimate poll being conducted which he plans to compile and give to various contacts within the government in hopes that it will be presented to Congress and President Barack Obama. This number is completely free and has apparently no known risks/fees associated with it outside of normal cell phone charges/minutes used/etc. If the number reaches a certain amount of votes (1,000,000), HH has every intention to follow through and send the compiled petition to the government."

That's nice. It's also not what the text said. So it's not honest. Now why would anybody want to just randomly dial a phone number to vote on something without even knowing if it's true or not, and without knowing whether or not the phone number is even legit? Everybody who has dialed that phone number has left a legitimate, traceable record of their own phone number, and this Jeff Goldblatt person now has a humongous list of people he knows are "probably" herb-friendly. Why, people.... why? It only takes a minute to research things out, y'know? A few minutes spent discerning what's true and what isn't can go a long, long way toward the betterment of our lives and toward the prevention of opening ourselves up to things we really might not want in our lives.

Here's another link for you: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/drugpoll.asp . You'll have to copy and paste these, because I haven't yet learned how to make things into working links on this blog page.

C'mon people... Don't be sheeple :) Think before you act and don't assume everything you read or hear in the media (including text messages) is true!!! Remember what happens when we assume? We make an ASS of U and ME. I for one prefer to not follow the lemmings over the cliff.