do you think the government will legalize marijuana like they did alcohol?

Question

Is it just a tax issue?

Answer 1

Yes.Fire God.

Answer 2

I think Zippe is on crack.

Mainly it is a tax issue. The government cannot control the growing of marijuana, so they cannot control the tax on it. Besides, the marijuana is worth more illegal than it is if it were legal. Alcohol and tobacco are far worse than marijuana and yet they are legal. Where there is money to be made, there is the government making it.

Answer 3

It is not just a tax issue. It is much more than that.

Part of the problem is ignorance. For the early to mid part of the 20th century, people believed the horror stories that marijuana was addictive and that use of marijuana was the root of licentious and decadent behavior. It caused what they now call a moral panic.

In the early 60's when kids were becoming better educated and college students started using it for recreational purposes, a 20 year old college reporter from the University of Oregon, named Annette Buchanan, got arrested and convicted for refusing to reveal her sources when she wrote a newspaper article in her college newspaper. When she went before a grand jury and refused to name the 7 people who were using marijuana, she got fined for contempt of court and avoided jail because she paid a $300 fine.

After that experience and the news that her story generated, college students all over the world started using it. Since, in the western part of the United States, marijuana grows wild (hence the name weed) it was not a controllable substance. If it grows in the cracks of the sidewalks in the western part of the United States, it is too hard to regulate and control.

In the early part of the 1970's, California, Oregon and Washington decriminalized marijuana because it was taking up too much room in prisons for keeping kids in prison because of marijuana and real hard core criminals like murderers and burglars were going free.

Later, in the 1980's marijuana became legal for medical uses in the western states because there is substantial evidence it is used successfully for the treatment of chemotherapy induced nausea, anorexia, glaucoma, arthritis and a whole bunch of other conditions.

However, the dissemination and distribution of marijuana for medical purposes is controlled strictly by the state.

I personally think that the voodoo witchcraft and Wiccan people do a huge disservice to those who earnestly and responsibly move to have marijuana declassified as a gateway drug. I don't mean to preach here, but it would seem to me that the people interested in legalizing it should be much more professional and appear much more responsible than the young people who are working now to have it made legal.

I agree with you that it is a petty issue that prevents marijuana from being legal, but I wouldn't like it to be classified with alcohol in the context of a controlled substance. I would just like people to get over the myth that it is a dangerous drug and that you can become addicted to it or overdose from it because that just is not the case.

I would also request that in the effort to have marijuana made legal, we not rush to judgment and disobey the law and become criminals defending something that we have not yet made legal.

The system works. You can change the laws by working to get marijuana made legal. I can tell you how to do that, but the hard work and pain of doing that takes years and a lot of committment that will be well worth it in the end. If you want to know how to make it legal, please feel free to e-mail me.

Answer 4

No because marijuana is too easy to grow and the government would have a difficult time keeping up with how much was being grown and sold for tax dollars.

Answer 5

I certainly hope not. As it is, they can't keep legal drugs (alcohol and cigarettes) out of the hand of minors. Legalizing it would just make it that much easier for minors to access.

If it was a tax issue, they would certainly make more tax money by legalizing it than by keeping it illegal.

Answer 6

Some day, I believe that marijuana, along with all the other misbranded drugs out there will be come legal.

I suggest anyone who really things illegal drugs are inherently "bad".
Take a look into them. More importantly, compare them to other things that people love, and are completely legal.

I will fight to the death on getting the prohibition acts removed completely.

Answer 7

If you're talking about the States, than my guess is no. That government is religiously run, and they won't go anywhere NEAR the idea of legalizing marijuana.

Answer 8

I think eventually i will be legalized. The government in ALL countries will like i said eventually give in to the people, but it will be at a cost that will benefit them. the only question is do we really want it legalized, its so much more fun doing it knowing your not allowed to.

Answer 9

No,
The government is controlled by ignorant Christan right wing extremist who are scared by evolution, homosexuals, immigrants, and everything else that makes them feel yucky....
That being said Marijuana is one of those things that they feel yucky about so no the government will never legalize it at this point

Answer 10

I very much doubt that marijuana will be legalized anytime soon in the United States. It is still far too controversial.

Answer 11

I will vote "NO"! I teach kids that are regular users and I really would hate our nation to become member of the "Shawn of the Dead" likeness in real life. That would scare me a great deal, giving control of important decisions to people that want to sit around and laugh while eating Cheetos all day! Come on, there are better things to do in life. JUST SAY NO!