why is marijuana use so stigmatized when alcohol, which causes so many fatalities and family grief is legal??

Answer 1

it's all about taxes

Answer 2

Your question is "why is marijuana use so stigmatized". The answer is simple:any behavior that it is illegal or out of the other accepted society norms is stigmatized.
Regarding the reason it is illegal, most of the lawmakers around the world are arguing that prevention of greater harm to society is the reason (in legal terminology: "general prevention"). Legally, no one can prevent anyone from hurting themselves (if MJ was hurting someone). That is why attempt for suicide is not prosecuted. But the theory is that if you begin with the so called "soft drugs" you will most probably end up using hard ones and then you will become a danger to society (commit other crimes in order to satisfy your need).
If that was true, 80% of the people I know would be junkies, prostitutes and robbers, so it is not a sound theory, IMHO.
There is so much more to say about it but it would get too long of an answer...

Answer 3

They won't "legalize" it because it would be very hard to tax it. It is soooo easy to grow in your own home, if it were sold at stores, who would buy government taxed weed?

I firmly believe in the legalization of marijuana. There are many medicinal purposes with it. And the best part, it is an herb. I would rather ingest a plant the big man upstairs provided us then some pill manufactured by some big pharmacy company.

So what if it is illegal, I still use it occasionally for migraines and kidney pain. I am waiting for more people from my generation to get into office, hopefully the whole pot is bad for you stigma will be banished (it's all those older people who think marijuana kills you, WHATEVER! they need to smoke a bowl).

Answer 4

The bottom line is $$. I would like to see it legalized as I would much rather drink some pot tea or eat some pot brownies than drink alcohol. Smoking is still bad for your lungs no matter what's in the pipe. If the Govt would legalize Tetra Hydra Canabanol and let people raise pot to extract the THC, the THC could be processed, purified and approved for sale by the FDA. Then it could be taxed like alcohol. The liquid would have a controlled THC content much like liquor does and would make one hell of a cash crop for those that would want to grow it. Most of all, it would take it out of the criminal environment so people would not get involved with crime just to score a little weed.

Answer 5

I agree the prohibition of marijuana would not make experience, yet equating alcohol with opium, or declaring that's worse than opium, is a procedures obtainable. Heroin, an opiate, is the most addictive substance obtainable -- more desirable addictive than meth even. On hit can hook you. while alcohol is only a difficulty at the same time as that's abused. mainly, those who devour alcohol actual earn more desirable funds, stay longer, have more desirable preparation, and performance more desirable cognitive functioning. an same basically ain't genuine for opium/heroin. With marijuana and alcohol, that's all about the way you employ them. while opium is too profoundly addictive for to blame use, truly at the same time as that's in heroin form. Morphine is criminal for medical applications.

Answer 6

I can have a drink and not get drunk, but I can't have a smoke and not get high. This is like comparing apples to oranges. They are both drugs but not similiar at all.
Mary Jane should stay illegal.

Alcohol cause more fatalities because far more people drink than smoke. So there are bound to be more incidents. Also smokers are more likely to drive about 15 MPH in a 55 when they're high but still think they are going pretty fast.

Answer 7

It is very complicated but it has a stigma because it is illegal. If pot was in use at the level of alcohol then you would see more fatalities. Alcohol has been in use for so long by so many people in cannot be banned. Pot; although popular, is used in relatively light numbers.

Answer 8

Because we spend 70 billion dollars PER YEAR in our "war on drugs". The 1st fatality in any war is truth.
For an actual answer read Jack Herers book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" it will make you angry and ashamed once you read the documented facts. And the facts in the book are well documented.

Answer 9

Money my man money so much money in taxes and bars downtown any city make so much for a town or city that you couldnt make it illegal but i do agree Weed should be legal as the government can make the same money off of taxes and smoke bars as they do Alcohol so all in all its just the messed up place we live in but i have to tell you i wouldnt want to live any where else

Answer 10

Marijuana got a bad image from the Hearst rags in the 1930's spinning sensational stories of "Reefer Madness"-- one puff kept making people into raving lunatics. This is what got it made illegal. Plus it ws associated with Black jazz musicians, Mexican immigrants, and other unsavory types to whitebread America. The logic of marijuana being less harmful than alcohol cannot penetrate a mindset based on emotionalism and lies.

Answer 11

I think Hunter S. Thompson said it best. Every society has their drug of choice, and the only drugs Americans trust are alcohol and tobacco. We've got a long history with those two drugs that dates back to before we were a country. We relied upon them for trade and they were socially acceptable (even encouraged) to use.