Can someone please give me some reasons marijuanna is illigal....?

Question

Also some facts about what it does to you

Answer 1

Smoke some and decide for yourself. Call it experience.

Answer 2

This comes from back in the day, so forgive me if it is not concise.

1) Hemp and Marujianna are the same plant different parts of the plant. Hemp comes from processing the leaves and stalks of the plant, Cannabis comes from the buds of the plants.

2) The belief why Cannabis is illegal, rests on two pillars, one is that when physcologist in the nineteenth century where around visiting Mental asylums and Opium dens they noticed that Cannabis was also being used. Hence they associate dope with harder narcotics and lunacy. The other theory is that the American Lumber industry in it's youth was losing out to the hemp plantations. The Lumber industry lobbied hard and managed to persuade government that Hemp and its associate Cannabis where bad, (see films like refer madness). They won and the growing of hemp was outlawed.

3) On the upside of dope, it makes you extremely relaxed and heightens your sense of colours and sounds. Also it can through you into fits of uncontrolable laughter. Dope can open up your mind, so you start having great ideas, only problem is in the moring you can't remeber them or look at the scribbles and find they are just rubbish. On the down side prolonged use will make you parinoid and can cause mental health problems.

4) I disagree with all those that say dope is a gateway drug, personally I think if you look at all those who have moved on to Heroin or Coke, you'll find the first drug they took was nicotine.

These are my personal opinions and I am happy to be proved wrong.

But as The Late Great Bill Hicks Said: "Marijuanna shouldn't be legal, it should be compulsory. Imagine a world full of happy, hungry, fucked up people."

Answer 3

This is an interesting topic, i did some stuff about it in history well i'll give you a brief timeline thingy:

7000-8000 B.C.
First woven fabric believed to be from hemp.
1619
Jamestown Colony, Virginia passes law requiring farmers to grow hemp.
1700s
Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
1884
Maine is the first state to outlaw alcohol.
1906
Pure Food and Drug Act is passed, forming the Food and Drug Administration. First time that drugs have any government oversight.

Ok my fingers are tired. There have also been alligations that marijuana use can lead onto other drugs.
If you want more on the timeline of marijuana send me an email.

Answer 4

The Federal Government (for those of us in the USA) says it is.

Oh... and boys and girls... HEMP is NOT Marijuanna...

Interestingly, there HAVE been campaigns to legalize Marijuanna... and some of the STRONGEST opposition has come from PACs founded and paid for by the GROWERS !! They don't want to pay the taxes, OSHA oversight, union rules... etc. I'd LOVE to see some actual data from someone who can SHOW that corporate America has prevented MJ legalization...

I don't recall what it's done to me... I've only smoked it a half dozen times

Answer 5

Why is marijuana illegal?

MJ is no big deal by itself, it becomes problematic when you drive, operate heavy equipment or try to focus such as in school. Marijuana is going to slow down your internal body clock. Time to you will move slower and your reaction time will be extended greatly. Say you are driving a car and the car in front of you stops at a stop sign. That means that if you are high and cruzin' along you will see that person in the cross walk, but won't be able to react until you've already hit them if you weren't paying attention to start with.

You can drink alcohol and have it typically be out of your system in 10-12 hours, or it burns out of your system at a rate of .02% per hour. Be drunk at 3 times the legal limit (at .08% BAC) and in 12 hours after your last drink, you should be sober and in 8-10 hours, OK to drive. Some MJ and in 72 hours or 3 days, I can still arrest you for driving under the influence if I have the driving observations because your sample will come back dirty.

So unless you can afford to not drive or do anything for 3 days at a time, go ahead and smoke weed.

MJ is already commercially available for RX reasons, the active drug THC is been in pill form for a very long time. Don't let anyone who says that it does X, Y, and Z for terminal patients or the benefits of medical MJ. They are after the THC and don't want the pills because they want the smoke and they want to be able to sell it. A good portion who get med MJ sell it because it is not illegal for them to possess which is half the battle.

To the person who spoke of Hemp, the question was about MJ being illegal. There was never a remark made about Hemp and it's benefits.

Answer 6

Logically, the are no valid reasons why marijuana is illegal but alcohol and tobacco are not. It's illegality has more to do society's morals than anything else. Alcohol is far more damaging to health than marijuana ever has been or will be(not counting skunk which is genetically modified marijuana, and is dangerous). The 'War on Drugs', has achieved none of its aims for the cost of billions of dollars and untold misery. All it has done is to make the criminal supply of drugs a worthwhile enterprise, because as soon as a drug is made illicit then the the supply goes down and the price goes up. Prohibition in the US was equally foolish and ineffective.

Answer 7

I'm not sure. I do know that a lot of the people I know who smoke it on a regular basis are a bit over paranoid. I've only ever smoked it a couple of times. I know that it is associated with schizophrenia.

The first time, I made the mistake of mixing it with alcohol and I was so sick. I spewed all over myself and somehow became suddenly stone cold sober. I had to walk home perfectly aware that I was covered in sick.

The second time, I smoked a joint that had sat on the mantelpiece for a year. I don't know what kind it was, but it made everything turn sickly yellow. I laughed at everything. Now you'd think that was fun, but it felt like a possession. It felt like a devil inside me making me laugh. It was scary. I'll never touch it again.

I don't judge people who seem to get their jollies from smoking the stuff. I just know that it ain't my poison.

It's illegal for a number of reasons. The main one is fear of the consequences of a workforce made lazy on the stuff. There are good reasons why it should be legal, like pain relief for those with untreatable pain. It should be legal but not generally available.

Answer 8

It is seven times more carcinogenic than tobbaco when smoked (in other words it will give you cancer seven times quicker than a cigarrette).

It is proven to have a depressive effect on people with a tendency towards mental ilness (a great deal of the population)

It leads to degenerative memory loss and concentration issues when used a lot.

It stinks.

Most dope smokers I have mixed with in my life have become lazy compulsive liars.

We are a society which is moving to ban smoking tobbaco, and warning of the dangers of drink. Why would we then make another drug legal.

Answer 9

To explain briefly, It all goes back to William Randolf Hearst of the famed newspaper chain. He routinely published anti-marijuana articles in the early part of the century. At the time, marijuana was the drug of choice for blacks while whites typically drank alcohol. I was an easy way to discriminate against the black minority. Also when marijuana was banned, there was no distinction between hemp and marijuana. Why do you think Canada grows so much Hemp and the U.S. doesn't.

Answer 10

Strains are now stronger than ever due to engineering of the plant. If you are a teenager you are at a higher risk of developing schizophrenic tendencies. This is of course if you are a heavy user.

I dont like it but everything in moderation I say. You have to try things in life or you will be forever wondering.

Answer 11

Because it messes your head up. They would ban tobacco too if it wasn't aleady so widespread.

The issue of tax is a bit of a non-starter as it costs the government more on the NHS than they gain. Or at least it will do over the next 60 years or so.