Why does smoking pot make me a criminal? (apart from the small fact it's against the law.)?

Answer 1

It's that small fact that makes you a criminal. Unfortunately.
The definition of criminal is one who commits a crime. Like it or not, smoking pot is a crime, therefore...

Answer 2

Pot is only illegal for the governments personal interest. We ALL know that alcohol can be WAY more destructive than pot, yet alcohol is legal and pot isn't. Why? Because if pot were to be legalized, they would have to tax it. That would arise the problem of untaxed pot being sold, etc. Also, if legalized, they will lose millions and millions of dollars of bail money, and different fines of the sort. So basically, the government will keep labeling you as a criminal if you smoke pot, because if you had the freedom to do so, they would lose a lot of money.

Answer 3

Medical

Compared with other licit drugs, especially alcohol and tobacco, cannabis is a relatively harmless drug and certainly the evidence to date suggests that the medical risks associated with cannabis use are significantly less than those associated with alcohol and tobacco use. Legalisation of cannabis would thus correct an anomalous situation where a less dangerous drug is illegal and more dangerous drugs are legal.

Cannabis may have a much greater therapeutic potential than either tobacco or alcohol. Cannabis preparations or derivatives could potentially be used to treat a variety of disorders and the legalisation of cannabis would enable proper investigation of its therapeutic potential and perhaps the utilisation of cannabis as a commercially viable crop for medicinal purposes.

Legalisation of cannabis would enable governments to control adequately both the tar content of cannabis cigarettes and also monitor the cultivation techniques used to produce cannabis crops so that uncontaminated and high quality cannabis preparations were available for sale. As long as cannabis remains an illicit substance, it is impossible to minimise the content of harmful substances in cannabis preparations or to monitor or control the amount of active THC in preparations. Legalisation should therefore not only ensure a cleaner crop but also reduce the health risks associated with ingesting an inadequately purified substance.

Social

The criminalisation of small-scale cannabis use means that users, often persons who are otherwise law-abiding, come into contact with wholesale dealers in illicit drugs. The advantage of the South Australian expiation notice system is that it effectively decriminalises the cultivation of cannabis for personal use, thereby going some way towards undercutting the black market which has developed around the recreational use of cannabis. Further mention is made in this context of the separation of small-scale dealing and use of cannabis from large-scale trafficking and the associated criminal activity, especially in the heroin market. The danger therefore is that the current policy may expose users to `hard' drugs and more serious criminal activity.

Hmm.

Actually, I'm more in favour of having Marijuana illegal, but not really bothering to enforce it, except for some of the large scale operations.
Similar to what we have now, but p'raps without having any criminal records for users.

The reason being is that the two legal recreational drugs - alcohol and cigarettes - do infinitely more damage than all the illegal ones combined, which is a pretty compelling argument against legalising more.

On the personal note, I have a lot of friends who are pretty heavily into it, and they just don't seem to get off their backsides all that much. One of em passed up the opportunity to waterski last weekend for no apparent reason. Gah.

Those that use it on an infrequent basis are fine, those that don't... well, they're kind of like alcoholics I guess.

So... bascially I'm in favour of having it legal in everything but name. And nabbing a big time distributor now and then.

Answer 4

If you truly believe the law is inappropriate write and lobby congress to try and change the law. That's what I do. A person who smokes pot is not a criminal in my eyes, even tho I don't smoke it.

Answer 5

What you or anyone else thinks about a law, it still is a law.. if you break that law, it makes you a criminal.. there are laws that are against sin and there are laws that allow sin.. I.E. adultry and homosexuality are sin but both have been decriminalized by law, and homosexuals are trying to get special priviledges by forcing laws in thier behalf.. There are laws against self destruction, which is a sin, that are for your own good. Dope of most kinds is destructive so it is illegal,, when you grow up you will realize why it is illegal

Answer 6

Easy.

You disobey the law, you get charged.

You obey the law, you don't get charged.

We as people of a government must do what we say we follow. If you disobey what you say you follow you're a hippocrat and a criminal in some cases.

Just like saying. Why does me murdering someone make me a criminal? Even though it's against the law, we as a society said we weren't going to do this, and I still did it. I disobeyed the rule and I do my time. (Not that I did murder anyone)

Answer 7

I do not see it as making you a criminal, however, smoking pot will eventually melt your brain or kill you. I saw this happen to a friend of mine and it took about a year for him to go down hill and die. He first went completely bunkers. Don't smoke pot. Criminal or not. Do not smoke it!

Answer 8

Ain't it weird. An why it the only other thing on the planet that has homeostatis besides humans???
You know on the seventh day God didn't do anything? Thats the reason why!!! Lol, its the most underated natural resource on the planet. From clean burning fuel to the most nutritious seed on the planet.

Answer 9

maybe it just makes you a small criminal

Answer 10

Move to Amsterdam dude