Why is weed illegal?

Question

Cigarettes - completely regulated, are known to kill thousands of Americans, are known to be addicting and hazardous to ones health.

Alcohol - kills thousands of people, and ruins a lot of lives with domestic abuse, car accidents... A man slaughtered two women and two little boys here a couple weeks ago, slit their throats and burned their house down. He woke up with no memory of it because he had an alcoholic black out.

But the thing is - I like cigarettes, and I like alcohol. But I love weed. And weed is so much safer, proven to be less dangerous to society than either cigarettes or alcohol. Do the cigarette companies not think they can just switch to dope and keep the same profits? Plus, a lot of this country could use some chill time! And if it was legal, that's billions of dollars less of American taxmoney wasted on imprisoning weed users and dealers, and a useless war on drugs. Sorry, but people are going to do drugs no matter what, at least if its legalized and reg

Answer 1

The reason why marijuana has been illegalized is that a man with a political agenda to get his department (later turned out to be the DEA) more money. So he made completely false propaganda films back in the 1930's. These videos portrayed people going mentally insane, becoming hopelessly addicted, and basically a real threat to society. The guy was on record for not even caring about marijuana. He just used it to get more government funds.

But science has disproven every myth about marijuana. It doesn't cause cancer, it eases the pain of cancer patients, cures migranes, relieves stress and anxiety, and tons of good healthy uses. There are other benefits too.

1 acre of Hemp (cannabis sativa/marijuana) = 4 acres of trees and will make every grade of paper BETTER at 1/4th of the cost of wood pulp and 1/5th the pollution. And a marijuana plant can reach full maturity at 8 months where as it takes trees years and years to mature. And it is very green friendly producing an abundance of ethenol for fuel, clothing that's better than cotton and doesn't need pesticides.

But the reason it's still illegal is because the politicians are too afraid to be the first to suggest it. And/or they are getting too many kickbacks. The billions for court costs, new prisons, and lawyer fees also make it an industry of sorts. Too bad most people don't realize this industry is nothing but bad.

Answer 2

From what I've read on the subject, the passing of laws making marijuana possession a criminal offense were the result of pressure from Dupont. Way back in the early decades of the 20th century hemp products were in wide usage throughout the western world, including rope and butter (to name just two) made from the plants. Dupont, so I've heard, had developed synthetic products that could duplicate, or at least approximate, many of the properties of hemp. However, there was no market for these products as hemp was widely available and, in many cases, did a better job than the synthetics.

Making hemp illegal opened a lucrative market for the new products.

There are, of course, hemp plants that are not marijuana and have such a low concentration of THC that you could not get high from smoking them. But they were all made illegal in one fell swoop (though hemp is no longer illegal in some of the jurisdictions where it once was, even though marijuana remains so).

Another reason that marijuana remains illegal is that the black market profits made on it have produced some very wealthy individuals, and they have political clout. Sure, they are mobsters, but mobsters have always had a lot of political clout. Making pot legal would take away their market.

There are also geo-political concerns that keep marijuana and other plant based recreational drugs illegal. Most of these drugs are grown in tropical countries (mostly third world countries). By keeping the market outside of the legal world of laws and regulation, the indiginous growers are kept very poor because they make such a small percentage of the final sale price of the drug.

If the drugs reached consumer markets through legal channels there would be fewer palms to be greased along the way and the farmer could make more money from it, even with lower consumer prices.

Obviously countries that support the IMF, World Bank and other poverty entrenching global organizations have little interest in letting third world farmers grow richer.

We know, from history, that prohibition does not work. It did not work with alcohol in the early 20th century, it has not worked with marijuana or any of the other illegal drugs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The government knows this. They have available to them all the statistical data that proves it. There for, it is obviously true that their reasons for keeping these drug laws on the books have nothing to do with stopping drug usage.

So what are they about?

Economics only.

Answer 3

Chances are it's not weed in any respect, however is as a substitute a authorized natural choice. As for unlawful weed, so much humans within the UK get a product which has been reduce, fiddled with and is absolutely now not what it says at the tin. While I don't smoke the stuff myself, I do feel it will have to be bought via pharmacists, in order that there's no hazard of contaminants being further, and customers might be furnished aid to kick the addiction in the event that they desired to. It might additionally quit those idiots from fiddling their electrical so they may be able to develop the stuff. I have visited six residences in which hashish is grown within the final yr, and the humans within don't appreciate that you'll be able to odor the apparatus from the road. Amusingly those had been everyone of their 20s, who are living among pensioners, that is why they've in no way been stuck.

Answer 4

It's illegal because the feds can't figure out a way to regulate and tax it. And I don't know what nhatali is talking about - I've seen plenty of unreasonable behavior, but not because someone was indulging in pleasures of the herbal variety.

Answer 5

In many cases it leads to unreasonable behavior.....that's why alcohol should be prohibited too.

Answer 6

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
IN 2050 THERE'LL BE FIRST LEGAL MARIJUANA IN CIGARETTE PACKS SOLD IN THE U.S. STATE OF CALIFORNIA UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF MR. THOMAS BRIGGS. WORSHIP MR. THOMAS BRIGGS. MARIJUANA SHOULD BE LEGAL. COKE SHOULD BE LEGAL TOO. JESUS TAUGHT US TO SMOKE WEED. JESUS SMOKE WEED. SO WE HAVE TO SMOKE WEED TOO.

Answer 7

well it still bad and we dont want a bunch of drugies in society

Answer 8

just one of those things, join the marijauna lobby and do something about it.

Answer 9

They don't like hemp because THE CONSTITUTION is printed on it.

Answer 10

Smoke some more, and seek Jesus, and ask him about it.