Rationally, why is pot illegal and alcohol not?

Question

The govt. knows that alcohol is addictive, it destroys your liver, kills thousands of Americans every year, and causes normally peaceful people to react violently. It can simply ruin your life, and the lives of your family.
Don't misunderstand me. I like a few beers or a shot or two. I also smoke. Likewise, the govt. knows tobacco is addictive, causes lung cancer, and like alcohol, causes birth defects.
Pot, to me, is on the bottom teir of illegal drugs. Although it may be habitual, it's not physically addictive. I've seen no evidence suggesting any internal damage to the body, other than the smoke from smoking it. It's natural, not processed. I've never known it to cause violent actions.
I just don't understand the justification for locking up non-violent users of pot. In my opinion, it's a lesser evil than alcohol. Is it simply because the govt. can't figure out a way to tax it like the others?

Answer 1

I think pot should be legal. That'd cut the legs off the illegal drug trade from Mexico as far, as marijuana is concerned, and let the DEA chase down the crack dealers. Crack is pure evil, so is meth. Even better yet would be pot-pops, where they do like with the nicotine candies they were working on before the FDA jumped up and down on em and put the active ingredient as a component in something else that won't kill you.

The moral of the story is that prohibition just creates more law enforcement jobs....

Answer 2

This is a huge question. You could spend decades trying to figure it out. But here's a possibility: Alcohol and Tobacco are terribly destructive, but they destroy people, not systems of morality and government. Pot, on the other hand, makes people less aggressive, more inclined to pursue pleasure than money, and thus useless as workers in the Capitalist system. People smoke and continue work; they drink and continue work; but reefers make you "lazy" and "uncooperative" and useless in a mechanized economy. A bunch of pot smokers would rather sit around and talk than go to work. That sort of behavior cannot be tolerated in an economy where you need good robots ready to work their butts off to enrich their Capitalist masters....Pot smokers all seem also to support the idea of "make love not war" and this is a direct challenge to the State because the state lives on war and war-making. So, I think that maybe there is a rational basis for the anti-pot bias: alcohol and tobacco do not challenge either the economy or the state, but pot (and I suppose other narcotics) challenge the basis of the economy and the state and thus cannot be tolerated. I mean, what would happen if there was no more war, if there were peace, if people enjoyed themselves rather than work?

Answer 3

Actually it does do some genetic damage to the chromosones. But it is less harmful over all then alcohol, unless it is contaminated with other drugs or insecticide. beside how will they distract the american people while they pick their pocket without a good war of some kind ,drug war, terrorist war. While you are looking at all this crap they are pushing through raises,bigger houses ,pools and perks for themselves. What job do you know that pays you a 100 thousand a year when you retire and do nothing on the tax payers backs, except government political jobs. Fat blood sucking parasites is what they are while they cut aid to the poor and elderly and sick. And ruin education. They should legalize pot,it makes more sense.

Answer 4

Alcohol is socially acceptable....many people can drink responsibly. Not all people turn into alcoholics. Pot, as you say, is habitual. People become pot heads and lose their motivation to do something for themselves; their lives, their loved ones. In short, pot makes people losers with no real connection to the world around them and the opportunities life offers. Studies show that people who start with pot will move on to bigger and better drugs. Besides the government can figure out a way to tax everything.....everybody knows that!

Answer 5

Because people have been living with the fact that pot is illegal pretty well. When alohol becomes illegalized, however, Al Capones are born. More Americans drink alcohol than smoke pot. The reasons gangsters were around was because they sold alochol when it was illegal. It seems white people can't be "gangsta" but white gangsters are terrible.

Answer 6

just to make sparkling... In Denmark we don't have a "ingesting age" per se truly we've a shrink on buying alcohol. this is sixteen years previous for alcohol as much as sixteen,5% and 18 for alcohol greater than sixteen.5%. to purchase alcohol at bars and eating places you ought to be 18. different than that all of us can drink alcohol. I additionally decide to function that danish infants carry the ecu checklist for ingesting the main. in case you're caught with poession for terribly own use you're fined and in case you're caught with poessession with intend for promoting you would be fined and threat going to reformatory watching the quantity.

Answer 7

Alcohol went through its phase. Perhaps at some point,mary jane will too. Peace.

Answer 8

You nailed that question 100%. I don't get how they can't tax it though......they tax tobacco right? Why don't companies roll up joints in a pack and start sellin' 'em like cigarettes?

Answer 9

alcohol has been in mainstream society for a long time...pot has not...if caffeine was found today it would probably be banned as a drug too...it is all in the timing...

Answer 10

It's because the beer, wine and liquor industries have lobbyists pouring money into politicians' pockets.