Why hasent marijuana been legilized?

Question

There's never been 1 recorded death from Marijuana smoking. There are thousands of detha due to Acohol and Ciggrete use each day. How are they better than Marijuana? Studies prove that Marijuana smoke is up to 10 times less harmful to your lungs, and the effects of Marijuana use are nothing compared to the effects of acohol.

Answer 1

There was a movie in the 1950's called reefer maddness. It greatly overexagerated the effects of marijuana. Unfortunatly this helped shape americas views on the plant, and long lasting impressions stuck. Its a shame. Heres an essay I took off my website i thought you might enjoy:

marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 2

There has never been one recorded overdose from Marijuana. Alcohol doesn't have too many more overdose than that either.

Almost all deaths due to Alcohol and Marijuana are from other causes. In 2001 38,000 vehicle crashes happen to highschool seniors who very recently smoked marijuana. Some of them died. This is compared to 46,000 due to alcohol from the same group. You idiot smokers have to stop pretending that marijuana doesn't effect you at all. The least critical study of marijuana effects on driving still says marijuana is capable of causing driving impairments.

Marijuana is harmful for your lungs. Smoking marijuana raises your risk for lung problems for everything except cancer. The tar alone will gum up your lungs just as bad as ciggretes.

Marijuana isn't as bad as alcohol, but it has its problems. Please don't try to claim there are no risks at all. That simply isn't true. As long as people try to claim there are no problems with marijuana, it definitly won't be legalized.

Answer 3

(weary sigh) because MOST Americans applaud when politicians pass legislation to "protect" them. So we've had marijuana prohibition sincre 1953.

They even tried to outlaw alcohol! It was black market from 1921 to 1933 -- but they havent' learned from that disaster.

It's depressing, and it makes me suspicious, when I think about how a majority wants their government to keep them "safe" from anything different or even pleasurable. This country merely pretends to value freedom.

Answer 4

Big waste of time and money plus it would be hard to tax. I'm not saying alcohol and tobacco are not worse. Every productive human life is a resource, be a resource, be productive.

Answer 5

It's very simple white boy. We live in a hypocritical society where it's OK to get drunk and beat the crap out of someone just because your drunk, but smoking a joint and getting the munchies is illegal. It's the ******' politicians.

Answer 6

Maybe it hasn't been legalized because the governments don't want to deal with a bunch of stoned pot heads. How would it look if everyone had bloodshot eyes???

Answer 7

The alcohol and cigarette industries have more influence over congress than the marijuana industry.

Answer 8

it's considered a gateway drug, and even if it is "better" for you than cigs it's still not good and can mess up your life. and they tried to outlaw alcohol in the 20s and that didn't work at all.

Answer 9

Simple.

When many drink they do so to have a couple beers. But when someone smokes a joint they do so to get messed up and high.

Answer 10

Probably because research shows that it causes severe misspelling conditions.