Marijuana is far less harmful a substance that tobacco, yet someone can light up a cig and expose me to second hand smoke that causes cancer in a bar, but a substance that a Harvard Study found that helps cure cancer is illegal?
Something doesn't seem right to me.
Link to Harvard Study Report - http://www.recklessts.com/THC.html
2007-11-06 08:56:55 · 9 answers · asked by amgolf27 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Good question... My answer is because they make more money off of it being illegal. They say they cant tax it.. Well they can tax the hell out of cigarettes.
People would grow it themselves and they wouldnt be able to make money off of it.
It also helps people with AIDS, people with cataracts, cancer, glaucoma, and dementia.. Many medical uses , you would think they would do something about it.
2007-11-06 09:03:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Diseases and other harmful substances make the world go round...sounds crazy but think about it. It's the harmful things that are legal because they help keep the cycle going.
Alot of doctors would be out of practice if everybody was healthy. The government doesn't want us to make marijuana legal because THEY know that it's something that's pure and helpful in curing diseases such as cancer....so instead they give us cigarettes. They figure cigarettes will give us that same oral fixation as marijuana (which it doesn't) but at the same time, bring us to a slow death (which they don't want us to believe it to be entirely true). Cigs won't necessarily kill you right away but they won't help cure anything either. It's all about politics and money....and it makes perfect sense.
I'm all for the "real" thing...
2007-11-06 09:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by simply-e 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question. its true that marijuana can help people recover from cancer because it helps them not throw up. some hospitals do use it though. although it can help people recover from cancer, i do think that it is good that marijuana is illegal outside of hospitals. people would abuse the substance and it would be a deadly combination with alcohol, which most adults drink everyday. if people had easy access to marijuana, many would die. The combination of alchohol and marijuana is deadly because since it helps you not throw up, if you drink too much alchohol, the toxins wont be able to come out of your body.
2007-11-06 09:04:44 · answer #3 · answered by dsfsdf 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the alcohol and tobacco lobbies
they don't want the competition
the stereotype created by Nicholson and Fonda in easy rider
2007-11-06 09:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by michr 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because the government is absolutely corrupt, and it would mess with a lot of power and money issues. it would kill many other industries (that should be killed) and the system would be ruined. this world is doomed. that's the way it is. ya'll should visit www.infowars.com to see first hand.
2007-11-06 09:08:53 · answer #5 · answered by spiritmolecule 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because from my personal experience, people who smoke pot on a regular basis are kinda stupid
and i would rather be around 2nd hand smoke than a bunch of high morons
just my preference anyways
2007-11-06 09:01:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
because any moron in any part of this country could grow it very easily.making it hard for the government to tax you for it cause if it was legal and sold in stores no one would but it.
2007-11-06 09:02:28 · answer #7 · answered by mr. y 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because to legalize it would mean it's quality would be determined by government standards which we all know are the highest quality...
yes I have a straight face...
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2007-11-06 09:01:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And alcohol can kill you but that's legal too.
2007-11-06 09:00:32 · answer #9 · answered by Ktcyan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋