why isnt weed legal?!?

Question

omg the government is dumb, weed is a plant like mushrooms which should also be legal. it was made by god so how could it be bad for you, plus not a single person has died from smoking weed

Answer 1

Hey, it's legal enough in the Netherlands, where I live.

Answer 2

I agree, its less harmful then alcohol. I believe its not made legal because the government wont be able to regulate like they would want too, there are to many people that could grow it on there own. If it were legalized with a tax put onto it it would probably get this country out of its deficit, but like I said the government knows they would have a hard time of keeping track and they dont like not being in control.

Answer 3

Listen here bud, no pun intended. I think marijuana should be legal. This country tried to outlaw alcohol during prohibition and failed miserably. The Mafia came into existence running bootleg operations. Weed has always been outlawed and the old timers in congress wont legalize it until new, young eyes analyze the situation. Weed has its drawbacks, No one o.d's, your right ,but a person who stays stoned all of the time is sleepwalking through life. You loose motivation and just want to smoke.

Answer 4

Of course hemp was an important product to the new world. In 1762 Virginia rewarded farmers with bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it. The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper, and Betsy Ross chose hemp as the material for this country's first flag. George Washington grew hemp for fiber and recreational use, and Thomas Jefferson acquired the first American patent for his hemp break, a devise used to separate the hemp stalk into usable hurds and fiber with greater speed than the retting of past.

Without hemp America could not have successfully waged the revolution, and for the next one hundred and fifty years hemp enjoyed the position as America's top cash crop. Why then, in 1937, was the Marijuana Tax Act imposed to effectively make hemp non competitive in the commercial arena?

William Randolph Hearst had accumulated a chain of newspapers that made him the most influential man in America. He also owned vast timber holdings which fed the paper industry. Lammont Du Pont was his friend and supplied toxic chemicals which were needed for making paper. He was also the spearhead for a fledgling petrochemical industry. Both men stood to loose large if hemp turned the industrial revolution corner, which it looked like it was about to do with the invention of the "decorticator", a far superior machine to Jefferson's hemp break. With this new invention, it appeared that hemp could now be processed quickly enough to be used for paper and plywood instead of trees, and the petrochemical industry was and embarrassment considering you can make the same five hundred biodegradable products from hemp. This was not good news for Mr. Hearst or Mr. Dupont. Henry Ford had already made and fueled a car almost entirely from hemp, and it actually looked as if hemp had the capacity to affect Hearst and DuPont's bottom line.

Hearst ordered all his editors to write scathing stories about marijuana to which they replied, "What's that?" Hearst made the word up because he knew no one would believe scathing stories about hemp. The articles all denigrated Mexicans, African Americans, Jazz Musicians, and the city of New Orleans, suggesting that marijuana use would certainly lead to crime, insanity, and early violent death. After a few years of this bombardment, the country was primed for the marijuana tax act of 1937.

The marijuana tax act was sent through the good old boys network with help from Hearst and Dupont allies until it was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 2, 1937. A slam dunk for the corporate giants, and a great lose for America. The bill actually charged a one hundred dollar an ounce tax on any commercial hemp transaction, which made American hemp noncompetitive. All hemp used by America had to be imported, that is until 1942 when our supply was cut off by the war, and the Government started it's "Hemp for Victory" campaign.

The plan called for the planting of three hundred thousand acres of hemp, and for building seventy-one processing plants... a strange position for our government to be in only four years after taxing it to death. As the end of the war drew near, the government's position on hemp flip-flopped yet again. Over night this war time wonder plant had once again become the demon weed from hell...

On November 2, 1951, Congress passed the Boggs act, increasing the penalties for all narcotics violations. They also included marijuana on the list of narcotics which was the beginning of a whole other problem. All of a sudden our jails were filling up with middle class kids caught smoking pot. Now there was a whole counter culture revolving around smoking pot, and by the mid seventies everyone was thinking it would only be a few more years till the government came to it's senses and repealed the marijuana prohibition. They must have been pipe dreaming.

Every study done on marijuana since the 1944 Laguardia report suggests that legalization is the only way out. In 1996 there were six hundred thousand Americans arrested on drug charges, of these, eighty six percent were for simple possession. Of the one million six hundred thousand people in federal and state prison, twenty-five percent are there for drug violations. This immense expenditure, capturing, prosecuting, and incarcerating, not to mention funding "the drug war", and the loss of revenue through billions of untaxed drug dollars is not a sane situation by any standards.

Answer 5

the government canines wont get as lots investment if it grew to become into criminal and no the fbi isn't looking at this is the nsa and what i'v found out first hand only each and every week in the past so is the polk county sheriffs place of work

Answer 6

Smoke is inherently toxic. Smoldering tobacco, wood, marijuana always produces poisonous compounds and tar. When you inhale smoke you are pulling these compounds into your lungs. Over time this will damage your lungs. With tobacco smoke, it is not a single cigarette that kills; it is the cumulative damage cause by all of the cigarettes that the smoker smokes. Marijuana lacks the nicotine of tobacco, but you would still be inhaling all the other junk. This could eventually lead to the same kinds of damage as tobacco (i.e. emphysema, lung cancer, etc.).

Answer 7

Yeah, I don't get that either. It is a plant and god did make it. Why else would god make weed. It was meant to be smokin or else he wouldn't have made it.

Answer 8

It would be to tough to regulate and tax. Anyway, pot was made illegal by companies like DuPont in the 20's I think because hemp was such an inexpensive alternative to plastics and cotton.

Answer 9

I agree in the sense that it should be legal. Why should government dictate what we put in our own bodies? If that was the case, alcohol and cigarettes should be illegal!
As well as pop, artery clogging foods, air pollution, etc!!!

Answer 10

Many people may not have died from it, but they sure have fried a few brain cells doing it. Do you know that smoking 1 marijuana cigarrette has the same damaging results as smoking an entire pack of regular cigarrettes. That can't be good.