Why Are People Against Marijuana?

Question

I understand that marijuana is bad for your health...but aside from that, why are people so against it? When I smoke marijuana I at no time feel like jumping out of a window, driving recklessly, having sex with people I don't know, or shooting my dog.
My friends and I will sit in a living room and laugh and make dinner....I am more likely to do stupider things while I am sober. So....why is marijuana so "bad" to some people???

and for the "gateway drug" argument....I've been smoking weed off and on for 3 years and have never had the desire to try a more serious drug? same with all of my friends..?

Answer 1

hey richard...do airline pilots take shots before they fly?do you see doctors drinking beer before they go into the ER???no, why would marijuana be any different?

weed needs to be legalized to save this country billions of dollars a year, and make it one step closer to actually being a free one that it claims to be...

Answer 2

I think most of the problem is that there is very little unbiased information about it.

People who react negatively simply because "It's a drug". There is great fear of any substance that is capable of altering brain function, and for good reason. Letting a mind-altering substance into one's body effectively gives that substance complete control over your behavior, and therefore it is a dangerous thing to do (for both you and society) if the effects cannot be predicted. Since there is no unbiased data on the effects that marijuana has on behavior, addictiveness, etc. people have to assume the worst, and assume that the effects it has are at least potentially devastating.

It's a matter of society saying "We don't know for sure, so we had better stay away just in case".

The problem is that this attitude can steer people away from legitimate uses of something, or even legitimate *study* of something. After all, if everybody assumes it is bad, who will bother to do or publish research saying otherwise?

The reason people are against Marijuana is that they have steered clear of it out of caution for so long that the original overcautious assumptions have started to seem like outright facts, and until scientists can do some research on the matter in order to reveal the truth (Good or bad), the assumptions will probably continue to rule people's reactions.

Answer 3

if marijuana isnt a problem, then it would be ok for an airline pilot to smoke it on duty? how about a long haul truck driver? train engineer? marijuana, like alcohol, dulls the mind. and while you havent moved on to harder drugs, everyone that has taken harder drugs, has started with marijuana. if you just take a few tokes, you are likely not going to have a problem, like having a beer on the way home from work. but when you smoke a few joints in a short period of time, you do start losing inhibitions and doing things you would not otherwise do. there have been a number of train wrecks where the engineers, and signalmen were smoking that harmless little joint, too bad about the people that died in the wreck. i am not excusing people who drink and drive either, but you cannot claim that marijuana is harmless, or doesnt make you do things, because it in fact does. many jurisdictions allow minor penalties for recreational marijuana use, and some allow medical marijuana. but how many times have people with a joint or two, run from the police because they knew they had the drug, and didnt want to go to jail, even though they live in an area where that small amount would have gotten them a ticket at worst? and when they run, they endanger the lives of everyone around them, themselves and the cop included. what would you think if that idiot ran from the cops, and in the process ran down your mother, father, sibling, best friend? all because they didnt want to get a ticket for that harmless drug? think about it.

and for those of you who think that people high on marijuana are not obnoxious, guess again. i have been around people who have been drunk, and have been high. they are BOTH obnoxious as hell.

Answer 4

It has already been proven to provide significant health benefits to Cancer and AIDS patients including pain management and appetite increasing benefits. It has also been proven to help with glaucoma. There has never once been any proof that marijuana causes health problems even remotely close to those of alcohol or cigarettes.

Strangely, these two are legal. Why? Because the government can tax it. If they made pot legal, we'd just grow our own and that would be a big NO-NO for the greedy bastards on Capital Hill.


People are just too lazy to actually do the research. If they did, and stopped regurgitating the government's biased opinion, they'd find there are more benefits than harms when considering marijuana.

Answer 5

Bonny rocks with her answer. Has anyone ever heard of an obnoxious drunk? Of course. Anyone ever hear of an obnoxious stoned person? Of course not. It's a very wonderful little drug and should be decriminalized. Period.

Answer 6

maybe the same reason people don't like smoking cigs or drinking alcohol? i am thinking it might be something to do with the smell or how people act when they are on certain things. i know i don't really like being around drunks because they are obnoxious - maybe stoners are just as obnoxious?

Answer 7

If it could be guaranteed that people would use it responsibly, then there should be no problem. However, historically and currently our two legal drugs cause many problems and adding more won't help.

Answer 8

Bonny, above me, is spot on. What's more, if it works fine in Holland, I can't see why people think it won't work here.

Answer 9

I don't like any drugs. It's mind altering and I am against that. You can do what you want, but I will never support it.

Answer 10

It is the first step to using harder more dangerous drugs.