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i'm a responsible adult....i have a job that i show up to on time every day, i dont drive drunk or stoned(except an occasional late-night munchie run to taco bell), i dont kill, beat, or hurt anyone...so why, if i want to get high after work, cant i just get high? (without worrying if im going to get caught)
how many marijuana related accidents do you hear about each year? how many deaths or beatings resulting from being high? but alcohol? tabacco?
whats the deal?

2007-02-06 07:38:11 · 13 answers · asked by turtle.racer 2 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

its not a gateway drug. dont be retarded. am i a junkie? no, but i've been getting high for years. just because some people choose to pursue different drugs does not mean that weed made them do it jackass

2007-02-06 07:45:00 · update #1

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The fact that your breaking the suggest something to me, could it be that is some way that you are rebelling in your own way against the government or in general authority? The fact that you broadcast on a national website that you break the law, may be an idication that you feel you will not get caught.

All that aside, Mariguana is illegal, not matter how much you disagree with that you still have to obey the laws. Because if you do get caught any judge is going laugh in your face that you disagree with that law so you should not be held accountable.

Yes you do not hear about many Marijuana deaths, but it breaks my heart while I watch friends and reletives ruin their lives because of Marijuana. My cousin resently got arrested for doing
Marijuana. Marijuana is illegal for a reason and I would examine your reasons for doing drugs because there might my an underlying problem here besides breaking the law.

2007-02-06 07:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by superchic1989 2 · 0 1

because all the old people who grew up thinking marijuana was bad for still believe it because that is what the government taught. people in the 1980's and 1990's were told, by the governnment, that marijuana causes lung cancer, which UCLA has proven false. mariuana is not that harmful and many cities want it to be legalized, like oakland--see link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States . I believe that all drugs should be regulated for safty, taxed, and be legal; I believe people need to be more educated on how to use drugs safely and explain in detail all the bad effects drugs will have on you. the constitution reads the war on drugs and corresponding laws to be illegal.

"In June, 2005, Jeffrey Miron, a libertarian economist and Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University and more than 530 distinguished economists, including Milton Friedman, a nobel prize winning libertarian economist, called for the legalization of marijuana in an open letter to President George W. Bush, the United States Congress, Governors, and State Legislatures of the United States. The open letter contained Miron's Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States report, which stated an estimated $7.7 billion in government expenditures on prohibition enforcement would be saved if marijuana were legalized and an estimated $6.2 billion would be gained if marijuana was taxed the same rate as alcohol or tobacco."

2007-02-06 07:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Marijuana was made illegal in 1937 after a campaign by the Hearst newspaper chain and the head of the Bureau of Narcotics Henry Anslinger.

Anslinger wanted to expand his jurisdiction and the size and budget of his department,. Hearst ran stories about how Mexican workers in the southwest were getting high and raping "white" women. It worked, as America is a racist nation.

Since then, there have been numerous govt studies, the most notable the LaGuardia report (1947?), giving pot a completely clean bill of health.

Now, the "drug war" is a major industry with 100s of thousands of people depending on it for their livelihood. It serves no other purpose.

2007-02-06 07:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 1 0

Marijuana is illegal because the government can't control it or tax it. It's easy to grow and almost anyone/anywhere can grow it in their backyards or homes.

If the government could find a way to make money on marijuana or tax it then they would legalize it.

Liquor and cigarettes are legal because most people don't know how to make their own and the liquor and cigarette companies/lobbyists give big money to the government. Also, there are high taxes on liquor and cigarettes

2007-02-06 07:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dragonrider 1 · 1 0

The answer is depressingly easy, it doesn't jive with the military, industrial, congressional complex that you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to recognize and would have to be slightly naive not to. Racism made it illegal (already been covered antiblack antimexican). Ignorance keeps it illegal.... that and the lumber industry. Check out Ed Rosenthal's "Why Marijuana Should be Legal"

2007-02-06 08:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by gustav_e 2 · 1 0

Hey rukidding, can't that argument be applied to alcohol and tobacco?

It was just that when they started legalizing a criminalizing drugs, a lot of perceptions about pot were different from the facts.

2007-02-06 07:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 1 0

I don't know, I'm a Republican, and I think we should legalize it. Tax it, wrap it up and sell it at the corner 7-11. Kids will get it anyway, why not regulate it, and the hemp can be used for so many things.

2007-02-06 07:42:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

It is not legalized for everyone for the government nor any company is making money on it.

Remember to asking such questions brings out those ignorant propaganda loving people who will believe anything that is told to them, or they see on TV.

2007-02-07 03:09:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Its illegal because the government made it so. They passed the laws to persecute against Blacks and Mexicans.

2007-02-06 07:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Because Da MAN is uptight and stoopid, but you can still swizzle my dizzle, mah vizzle!

2007-02-06 07:48:19 · answer #10 · answered by Timothy S 3 · 0 0

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