I can name countless reasons how alcohol is worse. there has never been a recorded death due to marijuana use, yet alcohol related deaths are a top cause of death in this country. People get drunk & start fights. People smoke pot & eat a lot. Drinking problems have ruined so many families. I'm sure marijuana use has effected families as well, but not like alcohol does. It causes so many health problems too. Sure, smoking anything is bad for you, but not compared to the problems alcohol causes. I just don't understand how a plant that does not have to go through any processes before using (besides air drying it out a bit) is illegal, yet a leading cause of death that has to be processed to be able to use it is legal. who agrees?
2007-03-15 05:20:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Ok, for the people that say pot makes you lazy & unmotivated-true for some, but-i know many people in high paying jobs in executive positions with much responsibliity that use pot & do not have any problems related to this. Also, yes there are DRIVING related deaths due to pot, but i'm not talking that. I'm talking more overdose, you cannot overdose on marijuana. alcohol on the other hand....and NO I am not a teenager. Personally I think it's only illegal because the gov. makes more $$ off of it that way-they bust the dealers, get their money from court costs, then resell the confiscated goods back to the streets. If it was legal they could only tax it & not make money both ways.
2007-03-15 05:36:48 · update #1
Our laws are not based on what is morally right or wrong, but what the people who wright the laws want or will get them what they want.
When pot became illeagal, most all the white people that smoked it were hippies so an attack on weed was an attack on hippies and non-whites.
Do a little research and you can find lots of reasons that people want pot illeagal that have nothing to do with whether it's good OR bad for you.
2007-03-15 05:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by Ajax 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If Marijuana was legalized.....
#1 Both pharmactical and health insurance companies would be out of business because you would have more people who wouldnt need to buy all these pills and more people who would just smoke marijuana instead of going to the doctors for every little thing. Our country is turning into a pill pushing nation, no one knows all the side effects of all these pills yet, if they do they dont care cause they are still pushing the pills.
#2 The government cant regulate taxes on it.
#3 You would have more intellectual people asking questions which means they cant be easily brainwashed by the government.
2007-03-15 05:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by italianmami7447 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I have even posted questions like yours. You don't need to smoke Hemp to get high...eating it will do the same as smoking. One of the big reasons why Big Business doesn't want hemp (the ORIGINAL name of pot) legalized is for the fact that Hemp has a million and one uses...including that it is easy to grow. You not only can get a pain killer while calming your stomach from hemp...but you can make clothes that are much stronger than cotton and that are easy to take care of. You can also power your car from hemp but unlike corn the fibers are easier to make ethanol. It takes less plants to create it and because the plants can grow close together you get more productivity for your land and the plants mature in one season. You can also make durable paper that doesn't yellow like paper made from trees. The word "marijuana" is actually a slang word from Mexico which was used to disguise the word hemp so that legislatures could make it illegal.
The medical community is trying to tear the plant apart, but I personally hope it doesn't work because all the big pharma will do is make it expensive for people to get medicine that would help better without all the added cr*p they put in there.
2007-03-15 05:42:17 · answer #3 · answered by hera 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
consider this: HEMP is illegal. It was made illegal late in the depression when it was poised to reemerge on the textile market to compete with cotton. Cotton only grows in warm climates but hemp can grow nearly anywhere. In bad economic times having a prime industry shift out of a region could be an economic disaster. So, under a mis-leading, foreign name, with false facts, a tax bill was quietly pushed through that effectively made sure that threat was removed. the 70 year prohibition had nothing to do with THC it was about money.
2007-03-15 05:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by Alan S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree but its all corporate America over and over again. Basically hemp is a crop which is very versitile in industry and the big companies did not want people to grow their own products that make them high so by removing marijuana, beer sells more and beer companies make more dough. To produce beer at home is not as economical as just buying at the store however mj can be mass produced in only two seasons so no need to buy it. Plus beer makes you want to go out and spend more money but mj makes you just want to sit and do nothing.
2007-03-15 05:30:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know, it's really unfair. I can't stand alcohol, but don't feel like I can safely risk smoking pot now that I have kids. I had to use it medically when I was pregnant, too, being allergic to other antinauseants, both my son and I would have died without, my doctor says. (was throwing up 30 - 50 times a day without it)
2007-03-15 05:27:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana is illegal because this way the government, politicians, law enforcement agencies, smuglers and their employee get a lot of benefits. There are a lot of money (hence power) and beeing illegal it is not accounted for, besides the law enforcement receives great budget and political support.
2007-03-15 05:55:39 · answer #7 · answered by stormcow05 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can fix the problem by getting politicians to support legalization of marijuana. When I was in college, we had the pleasure of attending a debate between the editor of High Times and the former head of the DEA. The former head of the DEA argued that he agrees prosecuting people for marijuana is a waste of time, but the only way to change it is to get the policy to change. Unfortunately, all the potheads are too lazy to organize this movement :)
2007-03-15 05:24:56 · answer #8 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it was used to rid the south west and south of migrant workers in the depression era to allow for more jobs for 'Americans'.
since the propoganda 'facts' are based on government information, they can't back paddle on it.
there are so many medicinal uses being found for the cannibinoids, yet, things like cocaine are still legal to prescribe... so... what, snort two lines and call me in the morning?
2007-03-15 05:51:37 · answer #9 · answered by bilko_ca 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thats what the government wants. Soon cigarette smokers wont be able to foot all the taxs placed upon them and the lawmakers will figure a way to legalize and tax marijuana
2007-03-15 05:25:06 · answer #10 · answered by sicphuck 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋