anny history, links or facts is good, just curious.
2006-08-17 14:48:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
http://www.somazone.com.au/content.asp?Document_ID=904
This is an...interesting take on it:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html
2006-08-17 14:54:55 · answer #1 · answered by Abtsolutely 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it could be used to make a higher quality paper for cheaper.
The owner of the major paper companies at the time pushed and bribed and lied and was pretty much an all around bad guy, in order to secure his business in the paper industry.
2006-08-17 21:54:14 · answer #2 · answered by cat_Rett_98 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's illegal, because when they were building railroads and **** they used Mexican people as a good labor force. When everything was built and done the mexicans stayed and white people complained they were taking all the jobs. The mexicans also happened to be smoking a lot. so they made it illegal and ran any mexicans caught smoking it back to mexico. Go to the Histroy channel.com they did a whole documentary on how weed became illegal. People wish it was illegal cuz it makes you do "crazy" things. No one has committed any kind of real crime on weed alone.
2006-08-17 22:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I did a research paper on this topic a few years ago in college. From what i can remember: Marijuana was outlawed in the 1930's. The cause of outlawing it was because mexicans, african americans were making a pofit of this "cash crop". It became illegal from force of false propaganda, and it gave a reason to jail mexican and african american people. It also kept them as "low class" citizens. Aside from the false propaganda being heavily publisized, marijuana was NOT outlawed because it was any threat or harm to a person.
2006-08-17 22:21:54 · answer #4 · answered by itsasecret 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Marijuana is illegal in PA and the US because it influences a person to do without knowing what he is doing. Thus, a person who smoked marijuana can do a lot of things such as comitting a crime. It was on these findings that the state make possession, sale and use of marijuana as a crime.
2006-08-17 21:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
B/c Congress said so. Do you own stock in the letter 'n', by the way? Put down the weed and learn to spell.
2006-08-17 21:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by normobrian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a idea .the big bureaucrat have a deal with Mexico and they don' want to lose Their cut.but really someone getting a cut up there you think.lol
2006-08-17 21:54:10 · answer #7 · answered by idontkno 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it makes sense to legalize it and if something makes sense, Congress doesn't pass it into law.
2006-08-17 22:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by Salem 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bcoz in bulk, its makes a nation lazy idiots. have a look at the dutch!
2006-08-17 21:53:38 · answer #9 · answered by Piffle 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if people were allowed to do drugs all the time, they would... how could we get anything done?!?!??
2006-08-17 21:54:18 · answer #10 · answered by phillipsa9 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋