Why, the most Harmful Substances like Tobacco and Alcohol are still legal in countries that are against drugs?

Question

They are very well known for producing and inducing decease and ultimately painful death and between them they cause millions of deaths worlwide per year against other illegal and natural substances?
Are tobacco,alcohol, the arm trade, pharmaceuticals,oil companies,banks and other monopolized activities the big winners nowadays?
Is it perhaps because of tax revenue and also because politicians and their supporters both consume alcohol and tobacco too?

Bear in mind that illegal means you can go to prison for it, but would it solve the problem?
Because they are legal also makes them the cheapest available and accepted drug too I´m afraid!

Answer 1

They're too meshed with society now to eliminate them. Back in the 1920s the US tried to get rid of alcohol, and that made bad things happen (mob and such). Trying that now would create massive feedback, and probably lots of drunken rioters. People would NOT give up their alcohol, let alone cigarettes.

Although making them illegal along with the rest of the crap is not a bad idea.

Answer 2

Your a prejudiced man or woman and that i dont even understand you yet i strongly dislike you. Marijuana isn't bodily addictive like tobacco and alcohol, that's mentally addictive meaning it is going to become greater of a habit than something you go with, and has on no account killed a single man or woman. Alcohol and tobacco on the different hand kills hundreds of thousands of folk each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days so the debate on those issues isn't even comparable. An alcoholic can die if he/she is to stop because of the fact the withdraw indicators are so undesirable, alcohol will become a necessity interior the bodies every day recurring. Marijuana isn't needed for the physique, human beings say human beings get addicted because of the fact people who smoke it smoke it to top off their time and it wouldnt be annoying to stop in any respect if there have been greater issues to do in an afternoon. Marijuana would not therapy yet severely eases discomfort for those with persistent illnesses. i'm hoping you get maximum cancers sooner or later and you hit upon out the annoying way that marijuana is the only substance that makes you sense greater effective so which you will exhibit regret to all and sundry you have been a ***** to.

Answer 3

When it comes right down to it, the ratio of pot users that suffer ailments from their habit is larger than the others. But no one will admit to it in the dr.s office. The typical question is, "Do you smoke?" not "What do you smoke?" There are hundreds more chemicals in marijuana than a plain cigarette. I know of several individuals who have died or are currently suffering the ill effects of it right now. Any legitimate research into the subject here is considered unethical and illegal.

As for alcohol, many individuals operate vehicles under the influence of drugs (including weed) its called OUID. Happens all the time.

I'm sure tax income has a lot to do with it. But the argument that weed (natural substances) is less dangerous is false and clearly goes against all logic. When it comes right down to it, its all about kids. Why would I, or anyone else want them to have to deal with any more drug use issues. We have enough problems here with prescription drug abuse. Now the largest drug abuse problem in the US. This is not conjecture, as I see the effects daily in my line of work.

Answer 4

It is because of tax revenue, and also due to the failed prohibition of alcohol in the US in the 1920s... as long as the majority of the people do not want these substances illegal, they will remain legal. the only reason drugs are illegal is because people who use them are in the minority.

Answer 5

one of the biggest "think tanks" in the united states is the heritage foundation -- it has contributed money to the campaigns of two bushes and a reagan. its cheif funder at its inception was joseph coors. coors brewery continues to contribute heavily to give policy makers a good conservative handout.

the heritage foundation was key to making policy for the reagan administration and its war on drugs and the governments sale of drugs. the just of it is there are huge profits to be made by people selling drugs illegally. corporations are the big winner in everything -- even the drug trade.

here is some information on the reagan administration and their sale and transport of cocaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contra%27s_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US

Answer 6

The drug war is a government run business to support defacto regimes and uprisings in select 3rd world countries.

Answer 7

and the answer is.....TAX $$$$$$