Tell me why mary jane is illegal..???

Question

I would like someone to explain this to me.
If it were legal it the gov. could tax and benefit from that money.
Think about the problem it would fix(or at least help fix) in our deficit. BTW, I am a head and I don't use spell-check.

Answer 1

it should be legal..I agree.
btw, thanks kissthegirls...She is my wife..good to see someone stick up for her..

Answer 2

Actually, I recently read an article about a business man from New York who left his job, and moved to California. He bought a shop in which people can LEGALLY come and smoke. In Cali, it is legal for medicinal use of course. But you can get a prescription for it because you have 'anxiety'. You are legally allowed to grow a certain amount to fill 'prescriptions'. I think that's a good start.

Answer 3

some guy decrease back like in the 30's invested a gaggle of money in timber for paper and positioned out hemp is more desirable helpful for making paper. so in an attempt to no longer lose all his funding he made a gaggle of information reals making hemp look as if a nasty drug which will make human beings pass loopy. Its all with the aid of a pair grasping white guy.

Answer 4

Because people are ignorant.
And would rather get drunk and puke everywhere, and potentially get violent and all that **** when they COULD be getting stoned, be happy, laugh a lot, and be too lazy to be violent.
Alcohol is so much worse.
And the guy above me called you a "stupid retarded head"...yet he seems to be the one who has some serious issues with spelling and grammar.
He's probably an alcoholic.

Answer 5

everything is not about money. If it were made legal then 1000s of ppls lives would be ruined. Also the government would spend mad money trying to enforce high mary jane users from breaking the law. tahts why, u , stupid and retarded head, it is illegal.

Answer 6

I have heard that Mary Jane might be illegal because she is not a naturalized citizen and does not pay taxes..

Answer 7

Because people dont know that mary jane has medical purposes can be used to make clothing and books and does not kill people like cigarettes liquor and Tylenol(yes more people have died from tylenol than mary jane) also they want to keep minorities in jail(not neccessarily gov. mainly voters)

Answer 8

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.

The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.

You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

Racism
Fear
Protection of Corporate Profits
Yellow Journalism
Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
Personal Career Advancement and Greed
These are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.
Background

For most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It's not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it's been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.

The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more. This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600's, but did not reach public awareness as a recreational drug until the early 1900's.

America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.

The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.

The Mexican Connection

In the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing's army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.

One of the "differences" seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them.

However, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)

Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). These laws tended to be specifically targeted against the Mexican-American population.

When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator's comment: "When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies." In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."

Answer 9

it was because of tobacco companies, they tried to make it illegal many times, but back then it was known as hemp, and nobody would agree to outlaw it - then they put through to make it illegal under the name marijuana, and because the populace was so anti-mexico then, and didn't know that it was the same plant, it passed, and has been illegal and an issue of contention to this day.
I agree it should be legal.

Answer 10

Well they think its a gateway drug but then I knew crackheads who used after they were drinking,,go figure.Anyhow,,its illegal because a long time ago,,hemp was banned in the USA.It is in your history books.My brother has a movie on the 'puter about that.

Answer 11

The arbitrary decision of those we give power to make arbitrary decisions for us so that we don't have to make conscious decisions for ourselves. By the way, taxing it would do nothing to even scratch the deficit.