Since it was criminal violence that ended prohibition, do we marijuana smokers need to kill to change the law?

Answer 1

Criminal violence hasn't put an end to the 'war on drugs' thus far. In fact, it's been used to promote the insanity further and waste more tax dollars, needlessly increase the non-violent offender prison population, virtually nullify the 4th Amendment, and generally decrease the effectiveness of law enforcement with regards to dealing with actual crimes against people and property that involve real victims.
So the answer is no.
For other alternatives see:
http://leap.cc
http://www.drugpolicy.org

Answer 2

no, and good luck getting the potheads to rise and revolt! the thing to do is to promote hemp and it's 1001 commercial uses that could change the world, because hemp really does have the power to change the world but since since the Dupont Corp was thwarted at the turn of the century from patenting chemicals made from hemp, a smear campaign has made marijuana the whipping boy of hemp, so make hemp legal and commerically feasible and marijuana will follow, after all, hemp has been used for thousands of years in the rest of the world and was used heavily to colonize our country and in the grand scheme of things hemp and marijuana has only been illegal in the last century. The smear campaign worked so well that it is hard to imagine that the world depended on hemp for so very long until recently

Answer 3

I am not sure that killing people will help. But yes pointing out that banning anything for which there is a demand just feeds organized crime is a place to start.
The real issue you will have is most of today's lawmakers do not partake of marijuana the way those in the days of prohibition did of alcohol.

Answer 4

The problem is in the drug of choice..... Smoking pot, prevents the user from having enough motivation to do anything about the laws..

Few people understand, that pot is the answer to our nations problems...

Oil can be made from the seeds...
Numerious medicinal remedies.
Clothing and other materials made from its fibers.
Stop the cutting of the forests to make paper... (even the words of the constitution were written on hemp paper.)
And as far as crime... Violent crime rates among pot users are much lower than that of any of the other illegeal drugs..

It is not as damaging to the body as alcohol and ciggaretts are.

And above all....On pot, you dont care about your other problems..... It does not lead to depression like alcohol does...


Most people dont know the real reason it was outlawed in the first place... We can thank one person for that.. William Randolph Hurst...
To quote wiki:"Hearst also sympathized with Harry J. Anslinger in his war against marijuana. His paper empire (he owned hundreds of acres of timber forests) was threatened by hemp, which could be regrown yearly. He published many of the stories that Anslinger fabricated, aiding the anti-marijuana movement that eventually led to its prohibition in the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act."

The prohibition was done so one man could make money by making paper from trees instead of hemp.....

Another example of the news being created and used to allow the wealthy to profit more.

Answer 5

I just wish all those who partook in the 60's and 70's and know the truth about marijuana would come to their senses and make it legal.I know Congress and the Senate have to be full of ex-smokers or current smokers. The electorate need to be realistic and when a candidate admits that he used it, so what we all did back then.

Answer 6

NO! We just need to stop smoking long enough to motivate ourselves to change the laws! Excuse me while I go hit the bong and not care that I'm breaking the law,lol. Seriously, I smoke pot and never even thought about killing to get a point across...don't think less of all us bakers because of this question!

Answer 7

Actually, it was a constitutional amendment that ended prohibition.

If you think killing someone is going to motivate politicians to change federal laws that INCREASE what you are allowed to do, you have seriously underestimated politicians.

Answer 8

Who's gonna do the killing?
When I smoked weed, either I was too lethargic, too silly or too paranoid to do anything except lay around, listen to music, think about wierd sh*t, and when the weed was laced with something, like I said, paranoid.
And not a paranoid that makes you hurt someone or something, but paranoia that makes you run and hide. lol
Kill somebody about weed?
Get real. lol

Answer 9

Did you miss the crack epidemic? That approach doesn't work.