marijuana laws?

Question

norml.com hightimes.com is where I get my information.Marijuana is legal in 11 states.As in legal I mean decriminalized.small amounts =no jail time small fine can go home after getting caught with small amount.what do you think?best answer gets 10 points.

Answer 1

The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was passed on the grounds that marijuana caused "Murder, insanity and death" the marijuana laws were based largely on racism.
Why hemp was criminalized in America, by Scott Roussel.
"DuPont’s chemicals [DuPont is a giant chemical company] made wood-pulp paper cheaper than paper made from annual crops like hemp. At the same time William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the largest newspaper chain in the United States, backed by Mellon Bank, invested significant capital in timberland and wood paper mills to produce his newsprint using DuPont’s chemicals."
"... [DuPont also had other products that competed with hemp, including nylon] ..."
"Mellon Bank, owned by U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, was also DuPont’s primary financier. Mellon’s niece was married to Harry Anslinger, deputy commissioner of the federal government’s alcohol prohibition campaign. After the repeal of Prohibition, Anslinger and his entire federal bureau were out of a job. But Treasurer Mellon didn’t let that happen. Andrew Mellon single-handedly created a new government bureaucracy, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, to keep his family and friends employed. And then he unapologetically appointed his own niece’s husband, Harry Anslinger, as head of the new multimillion dollar bureaucracy."
"At the same time, a machine was developed that was to hemp what the cotton gin was to cotton: it allowed hemp’s long, tough fiber to be mass processed efficiently and economically for the first time. Popular Mechanics, in February 1937, predicted hemp would be the world’s first “Billion Dollar Crop” that would support thousands of jobs and provide a vast array of consumer products from dynamite to plastics."
"This impending reduction in the cost of hemp products posed a threat to the profits of DuPont. As a result, in the Hearst newspapers and elsewhere, a strident propaganda campaign against hemp developed, playing on various alleged threats posed by the psychoactive part of the plant. The end result was the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which was then used as justification to impose a ban on all hemp."

Answer 2

If I were god, I would legalize all drugs. I would subsidize them to the point where a quart jar of PURE cocaine would cost a less than a dollar, a lot less. It would be a boon to the funeral industry in America, and it would thin the population of a whole lot of druggies. I agree it is a radical position but how much do we, as a nation, really need people addicted to all these chemicals. After all, why do we have so much crime?

The only downside I can see is funeral directors would have to watch the profits closely as the death rate would decline sharply after the first few months and not really level off for a year or more. At that time the boon would turn to bust and many in the industry would be set to retire.

Answer 3

I think that if pot becomes fully legal to the point where it is sold in stores it will be so expensive and it will have a lower amount of THC in it, so I think that the best thing is to just have it decriminalized where you can have a small amount with no major penalty. It was supposed to be decriminalized here in Canada, but they didn't pass the new law, so it is all still fully illegal. There is no harm in it, so I don't know why they don't just pass the damn law. People are still going to be doing it either way. Even if they do go to the slammer for it, they will be sparking a dooby as soon as they walk away.

Answer 4

Marijuana should be legal in the same way alcohol is.

First of all 70 million Americans admit to smoking pot, that in itself should be enough. There are many other reason however.

Why is it illegal? Modern day Prohibition?

Is it because it's the gateway drug? If so I drank beer before I ever smoked pot wouldn't beer be a gateway? But wait, I smoked cigarettes before that so I guess nicotine is the real gateway drug right? Oh no, I'm sorry I forgot, I started drinking coffee when I was 12 so it must be caffeine.

When our grandparents where just old enough to have teenage kids of their own our gov't (for what ever reason) started broadcasting propaganda saying pot was the worst think to hit this country since WW I. It turns out that it was all lies designed to scare the hell out of everyone...and it worked. My grandmother thinks pot is a drug and if you "do it" you are a druggie and will probably overdose and die soon.

No one has ever died from a marijuana overdose.

How many people has alcohol killed in this country.

OK you can say "what about the people drug dealers kill to get these millions of dollars worth of pot into this country every year?"

Is that because of Marijuana or b/c Marijuana is illegal?

I live in an area that is absolutly ravaged by chrystal meth, and all I see in the paper are cops busting kids with pot.

I'm sorry to go on and on but I just think its a crazy situation.

Answer 5

Sounds good to me. Just 39 to go.

Oh, BTW... New studies show that Marijuana does NOT cause cancer. This was discovered in a study at UCLA, and has been reported by main-stream sources such as MS-NBC and the Washington Post. This study also suggests (but does not prove) that smoking pot may have a protective effect against cancer.

Not ONE single person has EVER died from dancing with Mary Jane.

Answer 6

make the **** legal if the goverment made it legal to sell do u have any idea how much money they could make off of selling potit would be a billion dollar empire within the first year. plus it would cost a whole lot less when we the tax payers do not have to pay for the inmates who are in jail for something as stupid as pot......its not legal in TN yet but i cabt wait for the day it is.

Answer 7

I think it's great. Studies conducted show that lab rats forced to inhale marijuana smoke lived ten times longer than those that don't. I think it's disgusting how rapists and murders are getting off on probation but people on drugs get sent to jail for ten years.

Answer 8

If you aren't selling this shi! to kids, you aren't driving and smoking and you are doing it in the privacy of your own home. F it. Smoking some pot every once in a while is not going to kill you. It is less addictive than alcohol and cigarettes, yet both are legal.

Answer 9

Make it legal already, who cares?

I agree with others in that it's not any more addictive than any other thing; moderation is key. And it definately impairs a person less than drinking can.

Or keep it illegal; our ghetto's need money too.

Answer 10

im in california and just got caught with more than 1/2 pound of marijuana, and went to court and showed the judge my prescription and she let me go, with my weed!!