Taking into consideration the factors beneath, why is marijuana nevertheless illegal in the United States of America?
Posted on 11 February 2012 by admin
Question by Warlocks1965: Contemplating the factors below, why is marijuana still illegal in the United States of America?
1. Marijuana is safer than both alcohol and tobacco
http://news.bbc.co.uk/two/hi/science/nature/58013.stm
two. Marijuana has been established to have medicinal value. (wiki has sources)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health-related_cannabis#Partial_checklist_of_clinical_applications
3. The likely tax income of the most frequently used illegal drug.
four. Reducing teen consumption of a potentially unsafe drug (drug dealers never card).
5. Reduction of teen exposure to hard drugs via the black marketplace.
six. Elimination of price to investigate, detain, convict, incarcerate end users.
7. Eliminating drug related crime. (Study a history book about what occurred to the gangsters right after the finish of alcohol prohibition)
seven. There is an organization of police, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens, FBI and DEA agents, and others devoted to ending the war on drugs. Note: following hearing presentations by this organization, only 6% of individuals think the war on drugs should be continued.
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If they government can’t tax it..they will not make it legal
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1) The prison industrial complex. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world because of non violent use of intoxicants.
2) Civil asset forfeiture – police departments love to steal savings, cars, and homes over a plant – or seeds of the plant. Nothing warms hearts like breaking up a family over ones choice of intoxicant.
3) lobbyists for alcohol and tobacco
4) Government will maintain as many ‘wars’ as possible. The wars that cant be won are preferred, because it opens an avenue of endless expanding funding.
5) Government sees no benefit in reducing gang crime. That only means calls for strengthening the police state would find more resistance.
idk dude its hard to explain, i dont think the government is really making money off of it and if their not making money off of it then why should they want it
Because everyone who smokes it isn’t very good at seeing things through to the end, like passing a law. Plus it’s hard to vote if you’re so stoned you forgot what month election day is.
Because the career politicians on capital hill would lose their cut of the profits if it were to be legalize .
Our government makes way to much money off of this and the other illegal substances. There is no way that they are going to settle for less. The government likes the fact that people are subdued by drugs if the people actually thought about what is happening in this country there would be a revolution. They have to control the people somehow.
Why was marijuana outlawed in the first place? Give you a hint, not because of it’s perceived danger to society. First state to pass any sort of anti marijuana laws was California back in 1913. The Hemp And Loco Weed Cultivation Act was passed to make it easier to deport migrant Mexican farm laborers.
It was widely known Mexican peasants used marijuana for medicinal and recreational use. Marijuana was much cheaper than alcohol and didn’t give you hangovers. It was a major part of Mexican and Native American culture. Outlawing weed made it that much easier to establish control over cultures that used it.
Flash forward to the 1960′s and a very unpopular war in Viet Nam. J. Edgar Hoover and the Nixon administration noted that most of the prominent anti war protesters also smoked marijuana. You can’t legally toss someone into prison for voicing opinions that the government doesn’t agree with but you can certainly lock someone up for illegal drug use.
In my opinion the main reason marijuana is still illegal it to maintain better control over certain segments of the population, namely the poor, ethnic and racial minorities and above all malcontents.
If the USA could find a way to control your growth of the plant and tax it, they would make it legal. There is a county in Northern California that has made it legal, they permit it, tax it, their crime rate has gone down, education has not declined since making it legal. The only thing they haven’t done is control the amount you grow. each permit (1 per household) allows 20 planets. But they are growing more. The Mayor said that if the US gov came in and made them stop, the city would fold. They have new business opening up in town and new construction all due to the pot growers. Bad thing is if you are DUI the cops do not have anything they can make you blow into to verify if you are high on weed or not. I don’t smoke, but I would rather have a pot head on the road with me that a drunk. If I could grow it just to make the $ $ I would and I would be happy to pay my share of the tax, but Bottom line, The US Gov will never make it legal because their are to many activist out their that give support to the politicians. Without the support they will not be re-elected. You are just one of many who keep asking the same old question.
My thoughts are that every one of you tokers who post the same question every single day should do some of their own research (i.e. searching for this question) before you ask it.
It’s asked and answered here every day like clockwork.
If you potheads would stop trolling for vindication of your abuse and actually take some action, then maybe we’d stop hearing what you do and how proud you are to do it and there’d be some actual reform.
1. Marijuana use is only consider by a minority to be safer than alcohol or tobacco. The same majority consider alcohol and tobacco an unsafe drug and it is highly regulated as such.
2. The medicinal value of marijuana is still in the evaluation stage and few have seen any real value.
3. More money is generated from fines, possession, and sale of property from users and dealers than would ever be generated by taxing the product.
4. Teens still still have access to alcohol and would have access to other drugs now illegal even if the drugs were made legal to adults and not teens.
5. Black marketeers will always have ways to lure teenagers into the market for hard and soft drugs.
6. The investigation cost and prosecution cost relative to already paid employees is minimal in relation to cost effective means to initiate fines and dispose of seized property. Most of the time a profit is realized and that profit is used to strengthen police endeavors.
7. Crime will always exist.
8. Some police, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens, FBI and DEA agents along with a few citizens have not viewed the entire picture or have set themselves on a selfish mission that will not benefit the people who are opposed who now represent the majority.