why isnt weeeeed legal???

Question

when theres been no recorded fatalities,, think how many deaths there are per year, drink related, and alcohols legal. discuss.

Answer 1

Several of your "answerers" already alluded to the myths (and some true disaster stories that can always result from abusing any substance) that are kept rolling along as people (including former pot heads and binge drinkers and cigarette smokers) become parents and suddenly assume the "do as I say, not as I do/did" approach.

Secondly, it literally takes an act of congress to remove a law from the books. It will always be included in the "arsenal of the prosecution." Just like states still make it illegal to possess "adulterated gold" (like a vile filled with iron pyrite mixed with some gold dust). So where's the hope for dope?

It also keeps police departments and other agencies such as Customs, DEA, Border Patrol in business -- literally. In addition, it gets people elected to office (after you read an article how a ton of marijuana was seized from two Mexican illegals driving a 1984 Chevy mini-van) and when they publicly vow to eradicate the nasty weed and all the people connected to the trade.

Keeping weed illegal keeps us from controlling such things as quality and price, and from treating somebody with an addiction as a personal/psychological condition rather than labeling him a criminal. Meanwhile, the organized criminal underworld is reaping $billions.

It would help the cause -- being reasonable about how we view some of the substance-dependent things people do -- if a few more U.S. Presidents had inhaled.

Answer 2

Because this country was settled by Europeans whose drug of choice is alcohol. Had it been settled by a bunch of Jamaicans, marijuana would probably be legal.

A lot of cops would be okay with marijuana be legal as long as it were handled much like alcohol (age restrictions, no driving, etc). We as a society really spend too much money enforcing some of the drug laws. I think if people wouldn't get stupid and drive or otherwise put others at rish when they use drugs, we'd have an easier time legalizing or at least de-criminalizing them. Besides, I've never had to fight someone who was stoned, but many who were drunk.

Answer 3

Pot aka hemp can be turned into clothing, material, oil by products, even fuel and oil for a car.

Long ago the oil companies pushed our government to make this crop illegal as they saw it as a threat to the oil fields and the billions to be made. Since our government is controled by oil companies, they are the ones that make it illegal.

They put out a campaign in the 50's to promote that pot was bad, would make you crazy, make you go kill people, etc. Brain washing the baby boomers into not wanting it. In turn getting the masses away from the product and to believe it is bad cause all you do with it is smoke it.

But most forget that Thomas Jefferson was a hemp grower. He also smoked it after being taught to do so by the Indians. George Washington had the largest hemp crop in colonial days and was considered the hemp master for all his clothings, rope, etc that he made from it.

Hemp is used in many parts of the world still today for such items and is a far better product for many of these items than man made plastics or fibers.

But due to oil.....America has been taught to hate it.

We have an energy crisis now....would be very easy to subsidize tobacco fields for hemp fields and to start making bio fuels. But again the governemnt is controled 2nd by the farmers. The farmers want their cut in this money making machine so that is why you see E-85 being created.

But E-85 is worse than oil for 2 reasons:

1. less power, less distance, same price

2. one bad year in weather, fires, hurricanes and E-85 will be $8.00 a gallon

Until America is off of oil and not controled by oil companies and until all the baby boomers as parents and in government are dead will we even begin to see pot as becoming something to be legal.

It was legal in the early 1900's.....heck we use to put cocaine in coke-a-cola...hence the name COKE.

Answer 4

You asked: "why isnt weeeeed legal???
when theres been no recorded fatalities"

Someday, you'll look back on this question you wrote, and wonder how you could have been such a moron.

Answer 5

There ARE recorded fatalities. Several of them. Please don't make claims unless you know what you're talking about.

Weed will never be legalized for several reasons which I'm not going to explain to you because you're obviously just a kid and wouldn't understand them anyway.

Alcohol is far worse than marijuana and should be illegal.
However, just because alcohol is worse than weed, doesn't mean weed should be legal.

Answer 6

It's more harmful to the lungs than cigarettes and it makes you lazy. I have too many students who think they can come to school "a little high" and function. They don't remember as much as they could without pot and struggle with testing. It's not the worst drug in the world, but in my opinion, it shouldn't be legal. Probably alcohol and nicotine should be illegal, too.

Answer 7

Weed isn't legal because authorities and politicians want to legislate behaviour.

Let me put it this way. Plants (& mushrooms) of many sorts grow right in your back yard, and it isn't anyone's damn business if you want to eat them, smoke them, or shove them up your butt. HOWEVER, it makes those in power feel good to make laws telling us how to live our lives.

We have laws for dealing with illegal drug use. How about Driving under the influence, public intoxication, child endangerment, etc. Enforce the laws on the books and stop trying to peek into our windows.

(And I don't drink, smoke pot, use mushrooms, et al.) I just think people should have PERSONAL FREEDOM and PRIVACY, as long as they aren't harming others.

Answer 8

IT should be. Too bad theres so much propaganda about it being unsafe. You can OD on it but that would mean you would have to be smoking it since birth to death-- but you don't even have all that time-- ONLY 15 minutes! So it is impossible for a human to OD on it

Answer 9

People were goaded into criminalizing it back in 1937 because of lurid stories about Mexicans and Blacks getting hopped up on the muggle and taking an axe and killing everyone.

Answer 10

they havent figured out a way 2 control it and tax it! all you people are so negative about pot but are willing to take anything your docter gives you, do have no idea whats in viox or zanex or depression pills? (yeah you know your on them and your daughter is too!) if smoking makes you feel better, SMOKE i dont but i have and i never failed the test or forgot to pick my brother up. other drugs have nothing to do with pot, people that do other drugs are risk takers or adreinaline junkies who try anything, pot is more likely to offered to you before someone gives you a needle filled with herion if every one in your 7th grade class had herion, well herion would probably lead to pot addiction!