alcohol would be illegal and marijuana would be legal?
2006-12-01 01:29:29 · 23 answers · asked by Bruza 17/uk 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
no, actually marijuana wasnt illegal , until, hmm im thinking it was the 1940's,,, and since alcohol has been around, in all civilizations since the begginning of recorded history, it would be hard to introduce marijuana before it ,,,
2006-12-01 01:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by dlin333 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana has been around longer.
I Don't think it matters which came first in making one legal over the other. Marijuana is illegal and will rmain that way until they can find a way to tell when someone is under the influence. With alcohol we have breathalizer tests that can dertermine how much they have had to drink. We don't have a similar test for marijuana. It is too hard to regulate and know when someone is "high."
Also, if marijuana was legal, it would be easy for people to grow their own. They would grow their own instead of paying for it in a store. It is much harder and time consuming to brew your own alcohol.
2006-12-01 09:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people have been smoking marijuana long before they they started drinking alcohol and is smoked by more people around the world than people using alcohol. the only reason it is banned is that when people smoke weed it makes them more aware of the world and whats going on it make them look at things in a different perspective which is dangerous to most governments if all people smoked then it would be harder for governments to turn them in to consumers. it causes no social or criminal problems you don't see people smoking weed and getting violent . Alcohol has lots of social and criminal problems but it is legal its one way of controlling the population after people drink it make there brain less active and dumb you cant start a revolution if your drunk. so governments are happy with that.
2006-12-04 21:23:31 · answer #3 · answered by rocco s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana has been around for ages, and prescribed on the NHS in the 50's & 60's for medical use.
i know drinkers and smokers and belive me the smokers are much more relaxed and tend to be merry all the time, while the drinkers get moody and aggressive and out of control too. Yes legalise it and sell it in shops and take it off the streets !.
2006-12-01 09:49:13 · answer #4 · answered by Richard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
No! I dont think it would make any real difference. The problem or should I say the central issue here is that both of these substances are mind altering drugs.
**I'd even go further & say "the big problem" we have in our society is that mind altering drugs are nolonger used in the appropriate sacred manner they were designed for. These kinds of substances were once used in a very respectful & carefully thought out way. In the very distant past mind altering substances from natural plants (such as paoti, magic mushrooms, coca leaves, chat or cat) were used in rituals & ceremonies for a variety of rites of passage.
To help young people become adults in the tribe but today in our modern society we have lost the value associated with these rites & so the mind altering substances are used without any direct connection to there original purpose, The drugs & use of the drugs are disconnected from the rituals and so the young people have become disconnected from themselves as a result. i.e. Out of balance, out of control.
There is no transition from the child state to an adult state, the drugs just leave people in a more wild and confused condition than before. The mind altering substances dont help them grow up but keep them in a wild child state. You cannot legislate on how to grow young people up? how to make them adults. Adults are often a part of the problem not the solution.
**These are very complex issues and the answers are often not clear cut in my opinion.
IR
2006-12-01 09:49:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
weed was around a long time before alcohol... and if it were bought up before the trading standards, alcohol and tobacco would be banned substances.
its only because of the revenue generated by alcohol and tobacco that we are allowed to buy them. and its taxed so highly because both are incredibly damaging to the person, and cost the NHS a fortune in care and repair...
and you are legally entitled to grow your own tobacco and make beer and wine free from duty... i suppose you can grow your own weed... but thats in the same category as distilling moonshine...
and smoking weed can't kill you...you smoke too much, you fall asleep... you chug a bottle of Jack..you wake up dead... alcohol poisoning... alcohol abuse eventually kills thousands of people a year... and so does smoking tobacco.
but think of this; weed is natural, so is handrolling tobacco (GV) neither have been shown to cause (cancers) what does casue cancer is production ciggarettes, ie ready rolled.
they have dozens of chemicals added, and no one ever tested them on a public trial... cancer rates went thru the roof from the 1940's why? we stopped rolling our own, and bought ready rolled..loaded with formaldehyde and saltpetre...
i smoke weed, and i use hand rolling tobacco, and ive been doing this for over 30 years... and im healthy.. my friend is an alcoholic, shes in a mess... schirrosis of the liver, the swollen fat saggy face, the memory problems, and the violence... all down to her drinking... and although i do drink, its a bottle of Newcastle brown once in a while... and yes, i enjoy getting stoned, i dont like getting drunk, i dont like throwing up, i dont like the total lack of judgement and control, and i dont like feeling like death warmed up after a night out on the town...
they will legalise weed, but not until they can find a way to tax it, and calculate what is a safe level... until then, we can legally drink ourselves into an early grave... we can buy tobacco so cheap that we can afford to get cancer...
2006-12-01 09:42:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cannabis products have been around for a long time and were used during the early colonial days so the question rather misses a point. They have both been around for a long time.
The laws were primarily the result of racism, ignornance, and nonsense. You can read a good (and funny) short history of the laws at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
2006-12-02 19:54:08 · answer #7 · answered by Cliff Schaffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly. I believe marijuana is illegal mostly because of a strong lobby by competitors to hemp. Remember the "reefer madness" movie?
2006-12-01 11:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by conklinmichael 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cannabis was cultivated in England in 400 A.D in east Anglia
in a place called old buckenham meare the first ever recorded use was in 2700B.C in 1563 they passed a law that all land owners with over 60 acres grow cannabis crops or face a £5 fine, it was not made illegal in Britain until 1928
2006-12-01 10:01:03 · answer #9 · answered by ste l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
marijuana was around before alcohol, so was lots of other drugs, like opium etc but alcohol seemed more manageable and could be monitored easily
2006-12-01 09:31:45 · answer #10 · answered by willows 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋