Will marijuana ever be legal?

Question

Why do all you little hippies think marijuana will ever be legal?
It will never be legal. Our lawmakers are in the interest of saving lives, not jeapordizing them. Yes marijuana may be safer than alcohol, but you cannot tell me that a high and drunk person is a safe person. We have enough trouble with all the drunk irresponsible people. Now make them even more impared and we have even more problems. All I know is I am nervous enough driving my kid around with all the idiots on the road and I for one would fight to keep another drug off the street. Keep it illegal then if people want to use they will be more likely to use caution when doing it. Even you airhead potheads should be able to see the reason in this.

You got it civilian.

The rest of you please read the adition to the question and try to get your airhead brains to understand what I am talking about.

Answer 1

sgt,i think these dope smoking losers need instruction ,like a military draft...only thing they be smoking their is their own asses,,,,pot,never will it be anything,alcohol is bad enough,,,but the boot camp will pasteurize these long hair men of pot,cheers

Answer 2

No one is saying that marijuana is 100% safe - but it's certainly on the same level as alcohol. At least if pot is regulated and taxed it will be more controlled, like alcohol is. Not to mention the fact that all of the billions of dollars from the pot industry tax could be used to better our society instead of keeping it in the black market and making dealers rich.
Pot probably will be legal eventually, as many states are already allowing medicinal use of it. If the government really wanted to protect it's people then they would ban alcohol and every other thing that could possibly be bad - including cigarettes. But, that wouldn't be such a "free" country, now would it?

Answer 3

I'm more afraid of people driving while using their cellphone! Now that is scary!

Attention! Don't go calling all of us airhead brains just because we responded to your question. You give the military a bad name, and Abu Ghraib did a fine enough job of that. At ease.

Where I live, meth is a MUCH bigger problem. I'd rather they did pot than meth anyday!

Answer 4

confident, even with the undeniable fact that it replaced into throughout the time of the previous time of immigration. that's no longer criminal no longer because of the fact of well being themes, yet because of the fact the immigrants have been bringing it over to united states of america and inflicting problems with it. It replaced into extra common as cannabis ingredients.

Answer 5

I am neither little nor a hippy, but thanks for the bigotry, anyway.

It is obvious that you have never read any of the most basic research on that subject.

First, the marijuana laws were absolute lunacy from the very beginning. Marijuana was outlawed because "All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy" and because of the fear the heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana - exactly the opposite of the modern "gateway" myth.

Just FYI, the "gateway" myth -- the current justification for the marijuana laws --arose in 1951. Harry Anslinger, then head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was up before Congress asking for more money to enforce the marijuana laws. (It is worth noting that, in 1937, when marijuana was outlawed at the national level that Anslinger recognized himself that the marijuana laws were hopelessly unenforceable. That is why he went with the Reefer Madness campaign.)

Unfortunately for Anslinger, the head of the Federal addiction research program testified just before him and said that all the reasons given to outlaw marijuana in 1937 were completely false. It didn't do any of the things that Anslinger had claimed in 1937. Anslinger had the rug pulled out from under his funding request. In response, he made up the gateway myth. In doing so, he directly contradicted all the known research at the time -- as well as his own testimony from 1937. Nevertheless, it became the justification for the marijuana laws ever since.

It should also be noted that the gateway myth has become so thoroughly discredited that even top government officials are now admitting that it is nonsense.

Second, this is an issue that has been studied to death. There have been numerous major government commissions over the last 100 years and they all concluded that the marijuana laws were based on the worst kind of ignorance and nonsense and should have been repealed long ago. They all said it should be legalized.

Over the years, I have asked the top government officials -- including every one of the US Drug Czars -- if they could name any significant study of the drug laws that reached a different conclusion. So far, nobody has been able to come up with one. In fact, it quickly became apparent that none of them even knew about the studies that I cited.

These reports studied the problems you mentioned. They all concluded that those arguments were nonsense. For one thing, marijuana is not, and never has been, a significant hazard on the road. They all said that -- even if you assumed what you believe is true -- the marijuana laws still cause more problems than they solve and, at best, are a waste of money.

Alcohol wins all the prizes for hazards on the road -- by orders of magnitude over all the illegal drugs combined. Alcohol accounts for about half of all deaths from auto accidents, homicides, fires, and drowning, and about half of all domestic abuse. It is also associated with about two-thirds of all sexual assaults on children. According to the US DOJ it is the only drug with any real connection to drug-induced violent crime. None of the illegal drugs is even close.

We tried making alcohol illegal to combat those problems. It only made matters much worse, and it also triggered the biggest teen drinking epidemic the US has ever seen. Prohibition started in 1920 and by 1925 arrests for public drunkenness and similar crimes were setting new records. Prohibition was passed with a campaign of "Save the Children from Alcohol". It was repealed with a campaign of "Save the Children from Prohibition".

In short, the evidence against the current marijuana laws is so overwhelming that drug officials don't even attempt to debate the subject anymore. We have tried to set up public debates with them. They stopped showing up in 1995 when it became apparent that they had not read any of the research and could not answer the most basic factual questions about the subject.

If you want to read the research, you can find it at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer

You can find a good short history of the marijuana laws at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm It is quite funny.

You can find the best overall review of the drug problem ever written at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm If you haven't read this book, then you simply don't know the subject.

You can find the full text of the major government commission reports at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/studies.htm The collection includes the largest studies of the subject ever done by the governments of the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, just to mention a few.

You can find the full transcripts of the hearings for the Marihuana Tax Act at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm

You can find additional histories, along with hundreds of original historical documents at htp://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/history.htm

Over the years I have found that two things are universally true of people of your belief.

The first is that they don't know anything about the subject. Ask them any series of simple factual questions and the best you will get will be a blank stare. I have proven that more times than I can count -- which is one of the major reasons no one of your persuasion ever shows up to debate the subject.

The second is that they really don't want to know anything. Their ignorance of the subject is deliberate. Like, for example, I have given you links where you can find the history of the topic, along with the most comprehensive studies of the subject ever done. My bet is that you won't read any of it. You will tell me that the information is wrong, and/or biased, and/or out of date -- even though you couldn't name the titles, who wrote them, or anything of what they said.

How can I be so sure of these two characteristics? I have seen them at least a thousand times before.

In 1973, President Nixon's hand-picked US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse completed the largest study of the drug laws ever done. At the end of their study, they said that the real drug problem was the ignorance of the people who had never bothered to read the most basic research. In a perfect illustration of their point, Nixon refused to read his own report.

The problem is still with us. Now go pull a Nixon and show us that you will refuse to read the best available research on the subject. It just proves my points.

Answer 6

Hey....aren't you the guy they based the Col. Frank Fitz character on in American Beauty???

Answer 7

MAYBE IT SHOULDN'T BE. BUSH IS AN OLD REEFER ADDICT AND IT MIGHT ENCOURAGE HIM TO START BLAZING A BIG FATTY AGAIN.

Answer 8

i eat it for a side salad

Answer 9

one day

Answer 10

If only they figure out how to tax it.......*