Why is marijuana illegal in usa?
The goverment can only make money off of it if it is illegal.
It can't be taxed because its to easy to grow.
We have people in prison for mary j and we spend tax money for them to stay in prison.
USA is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Freedom i should be able to put what i want in my body if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
Marijuana releases stress and relaxs you.
Pills that are legall do the same.
Could it be they might be scared of the alchohal business going downhill come on no hangover, no bad taste.
Prisons our full and are more full because of drugs.
Prisons should be full of people who hurt people.
You don't do anything if you smoke weed but i can't afford to do anything anyways.
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Control exists only through laws. More laws equal more control.
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Why is it illegal in almost every other corner of the world? I do agree that mandatory jail sentences for marijuana are a little stick and are just filling up jail. The UK has the right idea with just fines for simple possession. Two reasons its not legal are that we would look bad to the rest of the world and it would be impossible to regulate in a contutry this size without costing more than could be made from it.
You're right about the alcohol lobby, wrong about the taxation. The alcohol lobby knows that once marijuana is legal, the bottom will drop out of their market. The mob is also involved because legal grass will also take a huge chunk out of their income from selling it illegally. But the government could easily collect millions of dollars in taxes if it were legal. As soon as it's legal, a lot of cigarette manufacturers would shift machinery to producing joints, which would be sold in packs at a much lower price than loose weed today. Each of these packs could be taxed the same way cigarettes are today. As far as growing it themselves, you could do the same thing with tobacco, but how many people do you know that are doing that?
So combining alcohol lobbies and drug mob lobbies with irrational hypocrisy of people who have been told all their lives that marijuana is dangerous without ever doing research to find out the truth, and you have a product which is much less harmful in social costs and does much less physical damage than alcohol, but booze is legal and grass is not.
I dont know either. Yuor probably right. But incase you didnt know marijuana becomes more and more decriminalized in the states. California for example, you can have possession of 28.5g and only get a $100 ticket and NO jail time. Same if your selling it. Go to www.norml.com and you can look at the state by state laws. One day it will be legal. Only a matter of time.
Lets see mary j is illegal because it hurts people.
Last week a coworker who went out to burn one a lunch was so stoned when he came back that he ran down a fellow employee on the fork left.
Smoking weed is ok if your not at work, but most smokers I know want to have the right to be stoned all the time.
The tawdry tale of marijuana can be traced to William Randolph Hearst, the "journalist" who whipped America into a war frenzy after the obsolete "battleship" Maine blew up in Havana Harbor.
Hearst was an outstanding anti-Catholic at a time when anti-Catholicism was all the rage in America. He was in California, so he could not see the wonderfully white Catholics whose ancestors lived in Ireland and Italy and Austria.
He saw Mexicans. He hated Mexicans. And one thing that the Mexicans did in the early 20th Century, as they do to this day and, God willing, always will do, is smoke marijuana. Outlawing marijuana gave Hearst and his cronies a tool to roust chicanos and ship them back across the border.
Make no mistake that marijuana is not a purely good thing. It makes you lazy, and can affect judgement. Alcohol is bad, cigarettes are bad, so why add another vice to the legal pile? I think it should not be legalized, but rather decriminalized.
I heard that it was originally outlawed because cotton farmers couldn't deal with the competition from hemp.
My state, as far as I know hardly ever jails someone for possession unless it is with intent to deliver. The laws are very slack on pot. The only good that would come from legalizing the stuff would be for the users. The prices would come down. The rest of us don't want to put up with the actions of people high on pot in public. Worse than a drunk, which is bad enough. What do you want legalized next? heroin?
Our Federal Government made pot illegal in 1937. I've always believed they did it to boost alcohol sales after prohibition ended. Now, there is so much emotion tied up in the drug issue, that rational thinking is immaterial. But, America somehow feels that free citizens are supposed to decide for themselves how they wish to live, with the exception of "drugs". We are free to behave like rutting animals, be drunk 24/7, eat until we weigh 500lbs, abandon families, or be spokespersons for pedophiles. We can gamble away our families' security, promote terrorism, or preach that God is revealed in pigeon droppings on the sidewalk. Pretty much anything goes- except smoking pot- which humans HAVE been doing for thousands of years. And by the way, I haven't smoked pot since the 70's.
Well, I think enough studies have been done that show a definite link between marijuana and mental illness. A new one has just even come out.
I guess if you became mentally ill, then you might do something to impact others. So it is against the law
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