why is marijuana illegal in the united states even though studies have shown repeatedly that it is safe?

Question

The reason the first head of the dea made it illegal was to first attack the black community, then to keep mexicans out. when studies proving that marijuana is safer than tobacco and alcohol are just thrown away so that a law will pass to outlaw it there is a problem with the system that should be corrected. a president of our country stated that the consequences of the law were far greater than the damage created by the smoking of marijuana. check out norml.com for more info

Answer 1

It is illegal because it can't be taxed

Answer 2

Dude, that is a normal question, the answer is never satisfactory to politicians. Marijuana is a blessed bulb, it represents the hope of a generation and the soul of other realities. It has powerful and meaning capabilities, to heal a bullet wound as powder, to aid someone out of comma, and to make reflects quicker.
Of course government and control freaks want to posses it for nobody else, and it sure costs them none but they will say it costs millions and millions, are they not making this wonderful money out of paper? it could be as well marijuana paper. So many speak wonders of money and control, they are irreal and nonexistant, marijuana is not. I still hear some complaining of discontrol and help from governments towards drugs, yet these could be contemplated as private property or something to be not understood by commoners of this century. Law is very firm on prevaricate, and I am sure it exists to prevent none but assist persons and habits into society. Marijuana is very safe even to those with heart diseases, it is not wise to endure the fight to it.
Many still want the cash on drugs to control their transit and trivial facts.

Answer 3

What studies have shown it is "safe?" No, it ain't. As a matter of fact, a study just came out that marijuana use predisposes the (especially young) brain to become more easily addicted to opiates. The impurities and poisons in street dope make Camels look like benign health incense. And if you drive "under the influence" of dope, you ain't safe at ALL! Is it a good idea to smoke ciggys? NO! Is it a good idea to drink alcohol? NO! But that doesn't mean that smoking dope is a good thing, either, merely that, due to custom and history, we tolerate these bad substances, and we don't tolerate various other bad substances.
Note that this is NOT necessarily an argument either for or against legalizing dope, just that that's why its the way it is.

Answer 4

In 1934, Harry J. Anslinger was the "drug czar" of that time, the future son-in-law, I believe, of Secretary of State Mellon. Mellon had serious connections to a corporation called DuPont, and DuPont had just discovered this new fiber called rayon. Unfortunately, even though hemp fibers, those taken from the marijuana plant, are tougher and will outlast rayon, or any other man-made fiber, even today, they had no way of stripping the plant profitably. Then, somebody invented what amounted to the "cotton gin for hemp", and DuPont got Anslinger to push for the outlawing of marijuana. He suddenly went for the complete abolition of the drug, trying to eradicate it's planting anywhere. In the hearings for the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, the AMA was waiting, after only having been notified two days in advance, to verify that marijuana was a drug, and in any circumstance, they felt that no drug should be made illegal, since addiction was a disease (according to the rulings of the Supreme Court in Linder and other cases) and Congress had no right to regulate treatment or medical decisions. This law in effect made everyone who wanted to dispense marijuana acquire a license and register in order to do so, which, in effect, stopped them from doing it at all. Since then, marijuana has been ridiculed and lied about in order to protect it's special illegal status (it is in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, yet Heroin is in Schedule II, and both can be prescribed by a doctor) to protect DuPont and others who make their living off of these cheaper fibers. Since this time, however, we've found that after smoking SUPPOSEDLY KNOWN CARCINOGENS for twenty years at a heavy rate, marijuana smokers have NO INCREASE WHATSOEVER in the incidence of cancer. So either we need to re-evaluate the ingestion of "known carcinogens", or we need to re-evaluate "known" as it relates to carcinogen, or marijuana has potential to actually be a cancer fighter.

Answer 5

OK i once upon a time might have smoked/sell pot. but it should be illegal!!

Waite i know hold on.

it makes you lazy and OK with it, it makes you a little slow and stupid and OK with that. and it always leads to trying other drugs which is bad.

I stopped because i had too and i am the only one of my old friends with a job at 25 that i get paid a salary and can afford a house and family. they all still work with names on there shirts, rent apartments, got to concerts and search the world every night for a bag then sit around the rest of the time until they have to go flip a pizza or find a new bag.

i mean everything is OK in moderation but the average person is a dumb *** and cant handle moderation. sometimes you have to make laws for the dumb asses.

but can you really get arrested if you spark up once in a while at your house with buds or on the golf course? no so who cares

Answer 6

Go over to your local courthouse on Arraignment Day or Preliminary Hearing Day. Sit there, watch the idiots who are there because of drug charges and that should answer your question. Or just ask a local Public Defender about their clients. Just like with everything else, a few idiots ruin the fun for the masses.

Answer 7

The reason marijuana is illegal is because the pharmaceutical companies cannot get a patent on the acive ingredient (THC) because it is a plant. Mother nature has that patent. Without the patent there is no hope for marketing. No marketability-no profit. No profit-no interest. No financial gain=no decriminalization.

Answer 8

Because the American way is to keep trying, trying, trying for control even if it is never achieved. Like the war in Iraq, we're winning the war on drugs as well.

Answer 9

Because the pharmaceutical industry has not thought up a way to have it under their control.

Answer 10

Because the Government would lose alot of money.