Why is alcohol legal while marijuana is not?

Question

No one has died from marijuana overdose but alcohol is probally killing someone right now. Why not legalize it and make some money for the country?

I see alot of people talking about growing it themselves..Do you really believe people would go out side and garden? NO they wouldnt. The only reason ppl grow it now is because they can make money. People dont go an plant carrots when they are hungry. People that smoke cigarettes dont have tobacco fields out back. I guarantee if Marlboro sold marijuana, nobody would be outside growing. Just like alcohol. I don't brew my beer, I buy it. This country runs on everybody else doing it for you. What do you think?

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Answer 1

i live in canada... small amounts are legal here and no one in dying of it here..

Answer 2

Weeds are hard to regulate....It was legal for most of Americas history Illegal after Prohibition and legal again until 1970. The free love generation and war protest made the use suspect, and President Nixon made the drug classification system that included Marijuana. If you look back we have not changed the crime rate at all. The whole drug program has been a failure. The process that has made all the drugs illegal has a degree of prejudice about it. Chinese got opium from the British and brought it with them to America to mine and build railroads the use by white women was growing and it was in all the snake oil remedies. Marijuana was used by blacks and was predominant black thing, the drug was said to cause black men to go crazy and rape white women, not true but it fueled a series of hate crimes and the whole thing was blown out of proportion. The drugs were all over the old west and we grew marijuana for rope now we do not need hemp rope. The people stood up to government for control over alcohol and pot heads do not get agitated enough to fight and things remain the same and the myth continue like bad religion.

Answer 3

There are fourteen states in the US that have confirmed or pending laws on their books concerning the growth and distribution of marijuana. Oregon by far is the most lenient. It's not a dead issue for sure. I wouldn't want the government regulating weed - no way! They would screw it up for sure. ha ha How about changing the penalties for marijuana instead of legalizing it? Get tough on child molesters and murderers and stuff...

I read someone else's answer that I find funny. The people who wanted to legalize alcohol banned together and did something about it. I have to add this to that. The pot smokers got together and well... "and then I got high, and then I got high, and then I got high... dum, dee, dum, dum, dum, dum..."

Answer 4

Simply because alcohol is easily regulated by government which collects huge amounts of revenue from the sales. Where as marijuana can easily be grown in one own back yard or indoors as a potted plant so the government would not be able to have control over the production and distribution. Everyone wouldn't produce alcohol out of their homes but if marijuana was legal it would be growing all over the place and alcohol sale would drop drastically. It's all about money.

Answer 5

Alcohol is harder to be made illegal than marijuana.

Alcohol like marijuana isn't harmful as long it's properly used.

Many people make and do both, but not telling anyone, out of fear of prosecution and also it's not like you need to tell anyone that you make and do alcohol and marijuana in order to make and enjoy them.



Why not legalize marijuana and make some money for the country?

Because it will simplify things and enable the country to make profits, and 'they' don't want those things.

'They' want people to break the laws, the country to lose money, and the politicians (presidents, congressmen, senators, etc) to be weaklings.

Imagine if G.W.B. dare to make marijuana legal and gathered the profit from it to himself and his fellow Americans, the U.S.A. will have another dead president.

Answer 6

Excellent question. I think it should be legalized or alcohol should be illegal. Let's not be hypocritical. They are both drugs. Also, prohibition actually worked. Many fewer people drank, just like fewer people use pot now than if it were legal. I used to smoke pot and I drink on occasion, but I would feel better about myself if I didn't drink and I never smoked pot.

Answer 7

When the question came up in the 30's, we tried to make alcohol illegal, too, because it's a damn good question.

Come to find out, we can't do anything sober in America, and the law was repealed after a few dry years.

Answer 8

Prohibition only inflates and empowers the black market it seeks to destroy. The only solution is to put the power of alteration of consciousness back in the hands of the people. Let the states decide, put the taxes toward rehab and education, and institute strict product regulations. Goodbye criminal drug gangs making money, goodbye overcrowding prisons, goodbye lawyer profiteering.

But this makes sense, so it'll never f&#king pass Congress.

Answer 9

Marijuana destoys brain cells just like alcohol does. In the past I will admit I have used both. Both are bad. People who smoke marijuana are more likely to have memory problems (short term) than people who don't or haven't smoked marijuana. Marijuana can be just as dangerous if you are driving a vehicle....reactions are slower....marijuana has medicimal properties in cancer patients because it takes away the nausea....but that's about it...it might make some one feel good for a short time, but long term it will destroy brain cells....course alcohol is bad too.....I do not understand why alcohol is legal either....obviously someone in higher office enjoys a coctail now & then....

Answer 10

Marijuana is illegal because people have been raised to believe myths and incorrect negative connotations about it. In recent years, studies have been leading to much more discussion on whether or not marijuana is really as harmful as people claim it to be, or if it truly is a "gateway drug".

Answer 11

Because the plants used to produce marijuana (hemp) were competing with the paper industry, and one of the leading newspaper publishers (William Randolph Hearst) led the war to make it illegal. The lies fed to us then continue today, and the government refuses to budge.