why is marijuana illegal? i mean really, why?
honestly, after being one to highly advocate the anti-drug thing, I learned a little more about weed, and it’s nothing like I thought. I mean it’s not nearly as bad as cigarettes are. It’s not addictive like cigarettes, it’s not as carcinogenic as cigarettes, and supposedly it’s classified as a drug that is “liable for abuse,” which is why it is illegal. UM… aren’t caffine, nicotine, and alcohol all extremely liable for abuse too? and they’re all perfectly legal sooo… I guess I’m just a little stumped by this one.
go to google it holds the answers to your questions better then this does…
because the government doesnt make money off of it
Maybe because it changes you… Unlike any of those drugs mentioned, you get high from it… That or because it’s fun xD lol
If your professor, cab driver, kid’s doctor, store clerk, bulldozer driver, librarian, attorney etc etc etc took a toke before you required of their service, how would you feel about legalizing marijuana in society?
Apply & Repeat the same for caffeine, nicotine etc etc
Personally, I think it’s because it would be nearly impossible to regulate.
Long term marijuana use can impair thinking – especially for those under 16.
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/11/18/marijuana-can-impair-thinking/21043.html
Marijuana was originally made illegal in California to keep Mexicans (who used it often) from coming there. This provoked the federal govt to make it illegal.
the criminals want to keep it illegal because they make too much money,some of this money makes it to politicos who use it to get elected.also the drug companies don’t want it legalised because it would replace a lot of the pain medication they sell.and finally Christians don’t want it legalised because it may turn the odd teenager schizoid
hey michael. what about alcohol. alcohol is more addicting and harmful then cocaine is. and i should know because ive tried cocaine. and i would trust them more if they did smoke some weed before they worked. marijuana is illegal because if legalized it would put a lot of people out of jobs. plus years of brainwashing with false facts doesnt help either
Because that is the way congress voted in 1934. If you have any other confusion about how laws are passed, be sure to ask.
It’s because it is know to have hallucinations effects. Stronger doses prompt more intense and often disturbing reactions including paranoia and hallucinations. Increased usage of marijuana causes hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and paranoia. The THC in marijuana alters several neurotransmitter systems in the brain. THC alters the lipid membrane in all neurons and interferes with the normal functions of these brain cells.
It’s really illegal because Nixon needed a way to silence war protesters re. Vietnam, and most of them smoked pot, so he had Congress pass the scheduling law. Basically ALL drugs (medical and all the rest, too) are put on the schedule. Anything they want to make illegal, they just make schedule I, and bang, it has “no medical value”, and is hence illegal at the federal level.
Every time a new designer street drug comes out, Congress doesn’t have to make a new law to make it illegal — they just classify it as schedule I and bam! Illegal!
That’s the reason.
Because the bulk of the violence caused by the prohibition is committed in Mexico so since most people don’t see or hear about it they don’t see anything wrong with it.
If Al Capone had only thought of that the alcohol prohibition would be with us today!
Here’s what people far more learned than me have said about marijuana:
DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young – “In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. It is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. Marijuana does not meet the legal criteria of a Schedule I prohibited drug and should be reclassified”.
Governor Raymond P. Shafer, Commission chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (“the Shafer Commission”) – “the actual and potential harm of use of marijuana is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior” and recommended that “the possession of marijuana for personal use no longer be an offense, and that the casual distribution of small amounts of marijuana for no remuneration, or insignificant remuneration no longer be an offense”.
Dr. Donald Tashkin, author of the largest study ever conducted into marijuana and cancer – “We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect”.
The World Health Organization – “the gateway theory is the least likely of all hypotheses”.
The Lancet (British medical journal) – “the smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health”.
So that’s the health aspects of marijuana, lets also look at its prohibition:
John P. Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy – “Marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the “bread and butter,” “the center of gravity” for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption”.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton – “The killings, beheadings and bombings in Mexico are due to “our insatiable demand for illegal drugs”.
So, taxpayers pay $40 BILLION a year for the prohibition which *doesn’t* stop people smoking (so whatever “harms” it causes are with us already and always will be) and which empowers the sadistic drug cartels, resulting in the death of thousands of good people every year. We need to STOP people buying from the cartels, and the ONLY way to do that is by allowing legitimate businesses to produce and sell marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. We have to legalize marijuana.
because the government cant make money off it, not any1 can grow tobbaco like the ciggarette companies, not any1 can brew there own alchole and if they do they cant sell it, but any1 can grow weed because its a weed and grows anywhere
It’s due to corporate and political greed, as usual. Hemp was a large and profitable farm crop in the U.S. and still could be. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp, Bibles were printed on it. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp … He wanted to build and fuel cars from farm products.
“In 1619, Jamestown colony law declared that all settlers were required to grow hemp or cannabis. In 1797, George Washington grew hemp cannabis for fiber production at Mount Vernon as one of his primary crops. The 44-gun frigate, USS Constitution or ‘Old Ironsides’, took over 60 tons of hemp for rigging, including an anchor cable 25 inches in circumference. The Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners of pioneer days were covered with hemp canvas. Indeed the very word ‘canvas’ comes from the Arabic word for hemp. Prohibitions of cannabis sativa as a drug arose in many states from 1906 and onward. By the mid-1930s, cannabis, or marijuana, as a drug was regulated in every state by laws instituted through the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act.[2]”
“The decision of the United States Congress to pass the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was based on hearings reports. In 1936 the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) noticed an increase of reports of people smoking marijuana, which further increased in 1937. The Bureau drafted a legislative plan for Congress, seeking a new law and the head of the FBN, Harry J. Anslinger, ran a campaign against marijuana.[23] A part of the testimony derived from articles in newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst[citation needed], who had significant financial interests in the timber industry, which manufactured his newsprint paper.
Cannabis activist Jack Herer has researched DuPont and in his 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Herer concluded DuPont played a large role in the criminalization of marijuana cannabis. In 1938, DuPont patented the processes for creating plastics from coal and oil and a new process for creating paper from wood pulp. If hemp had been largely exploited, Herer believes it would have likely been used to make paper and plastic (nylon), and may have hurt DuPont’s profits. Andrew Mellon of the Mellon Bank was DuPont’s chief financial backer and was also the Secretary of the Treasury under the Hoover administration. Mellon appointed Harry J. Anslinger, who later became his nephew-in-law, as the head of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (FBNDD) and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), where Anslinger stayed until 1962.”