How we view pot?

Question

Ok, I'd like to ask a serious question and that is why do most people view marijuana as a harmful drug and something that should be labeled as illegal? You should really either have tried it or seen or had an experience with someone on it in order to claim it as something bad, not take peoples word for it. People lie about everything, even your parents lied to you since you were little, even if a white lie like the Easter bunny or Santa.

I will start off by saying yes I do smoke marijuana, pot, trees, weed, that sticky icky whatever you'd like to call it I smoke it. Now while I don't do it every day of every week most will say once is enough and that it's illegal and will make you retarded, mess up your lungs, make you lazy and all types of things. First of all smoking pot is no more dangerous than if you were to actually go out drinking or were to go outside to have a cig....

Drinking I consider more dangerous than pot because drinking leads to being very unfocused, quick mood changes, very impaired vision, liver cancer and from what I've seen in my friends never me, but it leads to a lot of dumb decisions. Then cig's discolor and rot your teeth and will probably give you lung cancer a lot faster than if you were to smoke pot. Yes smoking pot does give you the urge to become lazy but it's called an urge, meaning you don't have to give into it. I know people who have become lazy and don't do anything but sit in the house and play video games and smoke, but thats cause they are weak minded. The only way pot is harmful to you besides the fact that it slows your reaction time, so try to avoid driving and can cause lung cancer like cig's is if you are to weak minded....

Marijuana is just like an legalized drug (Cig's and Alcohol) and that is if you are too weak minded to handle them or anything to mind that then you will eventually become addicted, whether to illegal drugs, legal drugs, drinking, eating, not eating and so on. I myself had quit for about a year, smoked, quit again for another 2 1/2 years and now currently am smoking again, but the point is it's not a dangerous drug, unless you make it one. Therefore it's not the drug that is the huge danger but rather that the danger is more in your head and your willpower.

So why do people view it as such a bad drug?

Answer 1

1) It is a gateway drug that leads to the more 'harder' drugs.
2) It involves smoking a plant, which increased your risk of cancer. There are 20X more carcinogens in pot as there is in tobacco.
3) It greatly alters perception, more so then tobacco or alcohol. Studies have shown that pot users have increased crime rates, lower IQ's, etc. Just google some statistics.
4) Lack of ability to control. Anyone could technically grow thier own plant. It is much harder to grow tobacco or brew alcohol.
5) Psychologically addicting. More so then alcohol or tobacco.

I think that is reason enough to keep it illegal.

Answer 2

you need to read the emperor has no clothes by jack herer. it will answer all your questions about why it was made illegal. it's all politics, and nothing about health or public safety.