Should people be allowed to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco?

Question

I mean, why are they allowed and cannabis and cocaine are not? What is the logic?

Answer 1

What is the logic? - Who told you laws are logical. They are not in this case.

Answer 2

People should be allowed to put whatever they like into their own bodies. I would recommend watching the documentary "In Pot We Trust", but you sound righteously dumbfounded already (as you should be).
There is no logic to Prohibition, as has already been proven, but by hiding behind "keeping it out of the kids' hands" the law is able to rake in loads of funding from fines & confiscations, so there's no need to see reason & quit now!
Any intelligent person knows that there have always been & always will be those who seek to change their perception of reality through use of mind-altering substances, so the penalties already in place for those caught using them are a great cash cow for the federal government.
A drug is defined as any substance that when altered by man causes psychological changes.
The lowly coca leaf was not addicting when chewed, only when it ceased to be a plant did it pose a threat.
However, the only alteration needed to activate the THC in marijuana is heat.
Cigarettes & alcohol are far more damaging than these two things put together in their natural states, so I'm with you on this one!
Especially when people are suffering or dying, why deny them a substance that alleviates that suffering? At the very least, regulation should fall to the individual states, not the federal government!
The War on Drugs will always be a losing battle for the "good guys" because people can't be coerced into not wanting the drugs.
But they'll always win because of the amazing revenues this War creates.
I think some of these laws & indoctrinations are still in place simply because most people can't even imagine a world where marijuana is regulated by the state & taxed just like alcohol & tobacco. To most, things have always been this way, why should things change? Unfortunately, many people don't think beyond the idea that these things were "made illegal for a reason". If they thought past that pseudo-logic, they'd realize that federal government has created an underground of criminal activity upon which it can feed itself- all for our own good.
CHOICE- WHAT A BEAUTIFUL RIGHT.
Blessed be!

Answer 3

$$$$$. It always boils down to money. The government can tax alchohol and tobacco. They could do the same thing with cannabis and cocaine, but they've spent so long telling everybody that the stuff is evil that they can't backtrack from that stance without losing a lot of face.

Answer 4

i do no longer smoke tobacco nor weed and that i hardly drink, yet it fairly is a private selection that all and sundry could desire to have the potential to make for himself/herself as an person. i do no longer think of it may be the employer of the government what we do to ourselves as long as we are no longer harming all people else, so so some distance as i'm worried they're out of line to limit any drug. i'm no longer keen on the belief of a "nanny state". a central authority could desire to be excited by protecting the rights of electorate (this is why i'm for regulations against under the effect of alcohol utilising and smoking in public or around infants, via fact those issues do impression others), however the government should not be making ethical judgements for those that in straightforward terms subject them and no one else.

Answer 5

Its merely the health risks, and speed and intensity of the addiction that seperates cocaine and other illegal drugs from tobacco and alcohol (excepting of course persons with the gene for alcoholism).

You can destroy somebody's life damn quickly by hitting them with one dose of nearly any illegal drug. I've had lots of family members give up smoking or drinking, but friends I know who use "harmless" marijuana are still buying it up ten years later...

Then there's also the health issue:
http://www.wctu.org/marijuana_-_cancer.html
http://www.hilbert.edu/DrugsHealthRisks.asp

Note the words "When alcohol is abused" under alcohol on the 2nd website... the other substances listed lack the conditional statement... of course, that's not saying much with the way Americans drink now-a-days.

Answer 6

because drug users had access to these drugs before the FDA could package and market them ... so pot and cocaine are stuck with a social sigma, and the drug companies wont touch them

... if a scientist walked out of the jungle today with a plant no one had ever heard of called cannabis it would be hailed as the new miracle drug

Answer 7

Jesus, wow lets legalize coke so everyone is fuc&ed up and can't do anything and hey why not pot so everyone is stone and society does jack ****. Alcohol and Tobacoo are ok in the social norm because of taxes and moderation. There are studies done that show people who smoke pot over a period of time lose functionality and coke jesus wtf. your an idiot