2006-12-01 05:07:44 · 13 answers · asked by keith s 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
You're about to fall asleep, but you have a KILLER headache. The stress from work has been hard for the past 2 weeks. It's just building up, and building up.
You have to get to sleep, and you have choice, do you take a tylenol, hope like hell it does something, and try to go to sleep?
Or do you spark up as joint, take a few mins out of your day to loke it, watch the stress and pain melt away, then float on into bed with a smile on your face?
At this point, it's in a lot of rich peoples interests that marijuana stay illegal.
2006-12-01 05:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Bojangles 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dupont - the US is the only advanced country that does not have hemp farms.
In the 30s there was farming but Dupont and a couple other companies saw that hemp was a more versatile product than what they had.
These companies pressured the Gov into making hemp illegal. pot is part of the hemp family although commercial hemp doesn't have enough THC to get you high, but in plant form you can't tell the difference.
Pot is still illegal because the Gov likes the money it gets from big business.
crazy mama must have smoked a lot of pot because that is a brain damaged answer. Alcohol destroys brain cells, ever heard of a black out (no short term memory)
2006-12-01 06:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by al p 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is little logic to what is legal and what is not. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are addictive and legal drugs that the body does not need and still responds to. For that matter, we are discovering more and more food additives that may be at least mildly addicitive as well.
Part of the issue is sheer moral outrage. A lot of our worst laws were passed at times of national outrage- some of the drug laws, the Patriot Act, Prohibition, etc.
Part is sheer tradition. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffine have been used for so long by so many people that it is tough to work up a good hatred of them. in fact, Prohibition probably tainted the issue so muchwe may never be able to enact laws against most booze.
Now, we are seeing more and more that cigarettes are being demonized, and outlawed more and more every day. It will be interesting to watch the covert battle between the health-minded masses and the well-funded pro-smoke forces.
Quite honestly, however, I think your premise may be flawed. Comparing two different complex chemicals like this with different delivery systems and a bewildering array of concentrations and formuals is pretty tough for science to do.
Even looking at social damage would be tough since it would be so much like comparing apples and alligators.
2006-12-01 05:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All about business. In order for marijuana to be legal, it actually has to go back to the UN to be overturned. Your alcohol lobbyists made sure of that in the 1930's after prohibition ended and America needed a new scapegoat.
Diamond Dave: there are countless medical studies done by OUR OWN GOVERNMENT that have found psychological and physical benefits of marijuana. Saying that there has never been is completely false. It was ok to send to our boys in Viet Nam, when the military developed their own strain.
2006-12-01 05:23:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
In the 70s they almost legalized pot
So just look at why prohibition was ended, and then look at why the move to legalize pot failed.
2006-12-01 06:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by Todd R 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tradition and custom, that's it, no logic at all.
And diamondave, alcohol is phsyically addictive, pot isn't, it's as simple as that. Families are detroyed and people die from alcohol, pot doesn't kill.
2006-12-01 05:15:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact human beings are nonetheless procuring into the theory the "war on drugs" is achieving some thing of social import. the US is particularly quite backwards in this situation while in comparison with places like Canada, quite a few places in Europe, Australia and others. issues are changing even although. think of Prohibition.
2016-12-13 18:04:33 · answer #7 · answered by mudsir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the long term memory damage of pot at relatively small doses.
Moderate use of alcohol are not damaging, but even light use of pot damages both long and short term memory, reduces motivation and the damage can take years to reverse...if it reverses.
2006-12-01 05:57:49 · answer #8 · answered by crazymamaca 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I wonder if the Bible has anything to do with it - cultural conservatives may have a harder time arguing that something Jesus did (both drinking and turning water into wine) should be illegal.
2006-12-01 05:17:19 · answer #9 · answered by Gerty 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Both are detremental to the body. Do not be fooled that Pot is any better for you or any less damaging.
Alcohol has been a part of society since there has been society. Alcohol, in actuaity, in small doses is NOT bad for you.
There is not an instance that shows that pot has ANY beneficial uses except for the ability to increase appetite in those with nausea.
2006-12-01 05:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by DiamondDave 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋