I would rather be on the road next to someone smoking than with someone that has been drinking. Drinking causes anger and deadly fights. I just dont get how one could be legal and the other illegal!
2006-09-27 12:21:04 · 10 answers · asked by BahamaBlue 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
why
2006-09-27 12:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by babyblue12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noone should be drinking or smoking dope on the road. Aside from that, I am all for decriminalizing cannabis. If you really want an answer to why it was made illegal, get the book " The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer. It is a great book and the facts will make you ashamed of our government.
Also...Ron M is wildly mistaken...the AMA actually endorses the legalization of cannabis as noted in their 1992 study.
2006-09-27 12:28:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok. again contained in the days of the finished melancholy, alcohol changed into banned b/c of its outcomes on human beings and their lives. Gangsters and the mafia made it a thousand million dollar company at the same time as they made alcohol in this time. Then at the same time as the melancholy hit the U. S., between the flaws they did to regulate the monetary gadget changed into boost the ban of alcohol and issues were nice after that, only see you later as organizations made the beer and alcohol, which making alcohol and promoting it and not using a permittable company remains unlawful b/c it takes the money far off from legitimate agencies and it would nicely be extra risky than company-regulated alcohol. Which brings me to Marijuana. human beings make their own weed through turning out to be it and and "lacing" different issues in it to make it somewhat risky. There are not any regulating agencies accessible for weed (so only those that are perscribed weed for clinical causes may have it) so the authorities.loses money at the same time as human beings promote it on the streets. So possibly we are able to forestall yet another large melancholy if we make weed legal, yet only have organizations make it and shops promote it so there's a lot less danger and the authorities.can get some money again, and likewise have guidelines like alcohol (like an age decrease and something like driving with it on your gadget and getting punished if stuck). i do no longer smoke weed. i will by no skill smoke it. i imagine it really is undesirable for me. yet when human beings favor to do it, it somewhat is their selection and that i imagine which will be ok for them only see you later because it doesnt placed human beings at risk round them.
2016-11-24 23:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thing is your on the road with both. Alcohol + weed is worse than one or the other. No MJ doesn't mess with your percetion the way alcohol does. Alcohol was once illegal during prohibition but they found they couldn't stop people.Both can cause problems if used heavily. Moderation is key .
2006-09-27 12:31:20 · answer #4 · answered by primamaria04 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana is mostly illegal because the alcohol industry doesn't want to lose any money. The makers of Budweiser contribute millions of dollars to the anit-drug liars every year.
The textile and oil industries also don't want marijuana legalized because they will also lose money. Non-smokable hemp fibers are as strong and soft as a lot of cotton, and just as versatile; and the oil from the seeds can be made into several things from shampoo to fuel for your car.
Wild, huh?
2006-09-27 12:28:47 · answer #5 · answered by thatwench 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with what you are saying. Alcohol was against the law for many years. It was like drug smuggling is now, with inherent crime, deaths from bad alcohol, etc. Finally, the U.S. legalized and taxed it. Conservatives see only one side of the coin, even for medicinal purposes. As long as words like evil, evil axis, devil and the like are tossed around in the White House, pot will not be legalized.
2006-09-27 12:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by beez 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't really have a good answer for this but I think marijuana would be bad too if you were driving next to them. Probably not as bad as someone really drunk, but you still are all high and not thinking appropriately...If that's the right word, but yeah, I don't know why its not legalized, it should.
2006-09-27 12:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol has always been more socially acceptable. Back in the turn of the century when racism was MORE rampant than it is now, Weed was the drug of the "black man" and the "Mexican immigrants" Alcohol was always the white drug. I know it dousnt make sense but thats where it stemed from.
2006-09-27 12:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by indigo7us 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the 1950's, during the Korean War, the American medical association pushed to have marijuana declared an illegal substance. many believed this started with the major U S drug companies. after all , it's hard to sell something a prescription prices when it grows wild
2006-09-27 12:27:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
*-When Prhabition ended the Government had all these teatottlers on pay roll whos' job was to destroy stills, and break up parties, so they decided to keep them on payroll and make drugs illegal. and the rest is history
2006-09-27 12:27:11 · answer #10 · answered by curious115 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋