Why is Marijuana illegal?

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

Well, the whole thing started when Mexicans smoked it after working in the fields in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The ball started rolling shortly afterward. If you read the history of litigation against it, it seems that the fuel that started the fire was prejudice against Mexican migrant workers.

2 choices.
1. Keep it illegal but stop putting people in prison and spending my tax dollars on court costs and living expenses. But, if you're caught, you get a ticket like a parking or traffic ticket.
2. Legalize it, give the rights to production by liscense, sell it at a base price way below street value and sell it in stores for street value, the rest going to local, county, state, and federal taxes just like tobacco. Hell, I'd pay $150 for an ounce instead of $100 if it were legal.
2.b. fine for using the black market or for growing without a liscense.

Answer 3

What a good question! The answer is somewhat complicated. Simply put though, it is POLITICAL of course! I suggest reading on whitehouse.gov about their policies on marijuana and then reading a pro-legalization website to get a feel for their motivations. Then, check out some actual studies on marijuana and you will see that the white house's opinion makes no sense. What i mean is marijuana is NOT harmful, but it is made out to be a huge political issue where conservatives act like idiots as usual. I am talking about Christian extreme right wing conservatives as "idiots", as i am a moderate conservative myself.

Answer 4

Marijuana(Marowana) is illegal beacuse it gets you high
the side effects are
*Racism
*Fear
*Protection of Corporate Profits
*Yellow Journalism
*Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
*Personal Career Advancement and Greed

Answer 5

Because the Conservative assholes running this country believe that it's evil and ungodly. When it could actually save a lot of lives. It helps stave off the affects of chemotherapy, fights nasuea in cancer and AIDS, and gives eating disorder sufferers the munchies, so they eat. It's that 80's mentality that all drugs are evil, really.

Answer 6

Marijuanna is illegal because any one can grow it. The evil and aggravating government wants to make as much money for themselves as possible. If we can grow the weed ourselves they wouldn't make any money off of it it they grew it and sold it.

Also because they "The Man" thinks that it is bad for this country.

Answer 7

Cause its mind altering like alcohol... See the U.S gov needed money and controlled the Booze... Anyone could grow weed. Thus illegal... They compete... So money market vs uncontrolled unregulkated grow it in your garden market... Governments need cash.. Sorry.

Answer 8

Whiteman Rules.

Answer 9

The same reason why tobacco and alcohol are illegal. Oh wait... that's right.. our government is run by dick heads. haha almost forgot... sorry

Answer 10

I dont know, but you can always emigrate to Netherlands and meet Harry POTter