Marijuana Vs. Alcahol.?

Question

Ok I dont Smoke weed but i used to and here is my question.
So weed is illegal yet doesnt alter ur perception as bad as alcohol weed calms u down and makes u relaxed yet u can still drive but alcohol throws u off balance and gives u tunnel vission and can get poisoned by it so why is alcohol leagal and weed isnt? Also more people die in alcohol related accidents in which i have witnessed (but not involved in) 3. I havent heard of too many marijuana related accidents recently. Have you? Im asking as a serious question so please ONLY SERIOUS ANSWERS. PLEASE

Answer 1

I recently took a Drug Addiction class at the local college. I did my report on "Illegal Drugs and How they got that way". There are 4 documentaries produced by the History channel with a similar title. "Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way". I recommend them to anyone interested in knowing the history behind drugs and the reason they became illegal.

You may be able to borrow them from your local library or rent them at your local video store.

Alcohol is the drug of choice, along with tobacco for the United States. And yes, while alcohol seriously impairs ones ability to think, react etc, it does not seem to matter in the over all scheme of things.

Answer 2

Well I for one am ok with the legalization of Marijuana. I dont have any thing against it and I think enough people do it that it might as well be legal anyway. However, as devil's advocate I might argue that the reason there are not as many weed related accidents is the same reason there are not as many meth related accidents... its just simply because it is not used as commonly as alcohol so you have less chance of it happening. But since it hasnt been legal it is hard to say if that is really the case. Also I think it might also be because Marijuana is more habit forming than alcohol and everyone always claims that there are hardly any side-effects, i'd argue that any time you inhale smoke and ash into your lungs it is going to be significantly more damaging to your system per use than alcohol. Like I said, Im ok with legalizing it, I dont see a huge problem with it, but I think that someone against it would probably make some of the arguements I just laid out.

Answer 3

Man, I've had the exact same question for years. I want to know how to go about getting together a legitamate petition to legalize marajuana. I think the world would be a much better place if pot were legal. Plus the government wouldn't have to spend so much money on "the war on drugs", infact they could probably make money on the deal. Places like Amsterdam where weed is legal, there is a significantly lower crime rate. It really is common sense. But to answer your question. Back in I think it was the 30s, maybe the 20s, there was a movie put out called Reefer Madness. That movie made people who smoke pot look like terrible people, and basically to sum it all up the movie got marijuana illegalized. Just a year or two ago, showtime did a spoof on the movie, But go check it out, go google Reefer Madness, see what you come up with.

Answer 4

No contest. If alcohol is a tiger, marijuana is a mouse. The high on alcohol is so inferior to the high on grass, it is almost laughable to compare the two. One makes you stupid, the other opens up an aspect of your thoughts that is unique and I for one would feel the poorer for not having a glimpse on what your mind can show you. I feel the same way about LSD, mescaline, and MDMA (ecstasy), and nitrous oxide, but those substances are not for everyone and I do not advocate that you should go out and blow your mind. However, you are alive and for your life to have a deeper meaning than the nuts-and-bolts of everyday existence, you should seek some alternatives to the ingrained thought patterns that will tend to ultimately dictate your comfort zone. The only way I know how to do this is to expand your envelope of what is.

Grass is a wonderful substance, to be shared among friends. Alcohol can give you a brief feeling of euphoria as well, but the dues and the long term effects would make it a poor choice compared to grass. In my humble opinion.

Answer 5

The government cannot control marijuana, that's why it's illegal. Think about it, the average person could not just brew quality alcohol easily. But anybody with half a brain can grow some buds if it was legal, and the government would be out some serious cash.
That's my opinion on why it's illegal.

Answer 6

It's also about addiction. Alcohol is very addictive, don't expect that stuff to be made illegal anytime soon...people from hi to lo, gov and civilians, are addicted to it. Alcohol is dangerous, and should be omitted for a perceptive life, just like pot should be omitted by those who want to get the larger, clearer view. But everyone from legislators on down...cannot give it up.

I wondered about this during my days in the Air Force. The USAF is very down on smoking cigarettes, for example. They wanna be "smoke free by 20XX". But I wondered why they weren't taking any stand on alcohol...that stuff has ruined more careers, killed more people in a single evening than what can I even compare it too? How many enlisted and officers trashed their careers, lives, marriages with booze? It's a lot! Tobacco, tho not so healthy either, usually doesn't kill people when they drive after a cigarette, for example. And you don't die in a single nite of smoking, like you can w/ an alcohol OD, and you don't make horribly bad decisions to sleep with your deployed troops' wives after a cigarette (as you might with booze), etc, etc, etc...

Then one day it hit me: the rulemakers will absolutely not give up their booze. Cigs, OK. But you'll never take my booze, and I just happen to be making the rules...

So 1. it's about addiction....rulemakers cannot give it (alcohol) up long enough to ban it. And 2., it's about who is in charge, and their personal preferences. The rule makers always have and always will legalize their own preferences, and ban the rest.

Answer 7

This will be a life long debate in the US. Technically, marijuana causes much less harm than alcohol. But the government knows all, right? It all falls back on the ability to tax, or inability in a marijuana case.

Answer 8

Please understand that all the real jobs have been shipped over seas. The only gainful employment for hundreds of thousands of prison guards, judges, lawyers, probation officers, is in locking up our fellow citizens even if they have never harmed anybody. America, just like the Soviet Union before it, has a prison based economy. The people are happy with it this way. They don't care about facts, they want peppy slogans and holy crusades against manufactured foes. They like the prison based economy. This is a democracy. Its what the people want.

Answer 9

Too difficult for govt. to enforce alcohol prohibition so prohibition was repealed...Govt did not want to lay off all
of those agents so they made Marijuana illegal and made
the war on drugs a continuing employment program...

Answer 10

Actually, nobody has ever died from smoking marijuana. Fact.

There's a Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode about this, it's called The War on Drugs.