10/26/09 Project Notes/ Advising Day

Advising Day! CRAZYNESS!

Met with Lauren to work On project.

Project Notes

Brainstorming:
Decide we want to do installation piece in Rowe on the legalization of marijuana.
Need to get pros and cons of legalization.
Maybe do a 50’s style Reefer Madness with a modern twist.
Possibly use text in the piece.
People are close minded and need to pull back the vail
Need to get stats on marijuana compared to alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription medicine.


Pro
Medical
Alcohol/Cigarettes/Addictive Prescription Medication are all worse than pot
We could pay off the National debt quicker and more efficient
Is being a little paranoid really that bad?

Con
Illegal
Mind Changing
Lack of Motivation
Gateway to other drugs
Can’t tax it or control it

Your influence makes you choose which side you want to be on.

Our thoughts- The masses don’t know the true overall average effects

Everything else vs. Marijuana
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Crack/Cocaine
Meth
Prescription pills
Caffeine
Ecstasy

Legal Substances vs. Marijuana
pills
alcohol
cigarettes
cigars
caffeine

Need to get stats on marijuana compared to alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription medicine.

Stats on Rehab for addictive medicine and alcohol
Money spent on all three.

Alcohol kills this many/ Cigarettes kill this many/ Pot contributes some but need to out weigh the good and bad qualities and overall more beneficial

Imagine a doctor in a dark alley pushin the pain medicine.

Us as a group need to show our opinion and action

Marijuana Policy Project www.mpp.org

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Why does it matter when I am chilling in my own personal paid for space not hurting anybody.

We know we want to use two globes the good earth and trashy earth.
Using installation
Need to collect trash to add to piece.
Need branches, leaves, hemp to show opposite
Either have the globes on same axis or diagonal from each other.
One earth will be pretty, lush, and healthy, airy
One earth will be trashy, wilted, dirty, covered