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Get your facts straight.

It’s been banned since the 30’s.

I can’t directly quote etc, but I have heard a lot in the news and health field that it can cause or at least exacerbate existing mental illness. Other than that I dunno why it’s illegal.

I dont really care for weed but why are cigarettes legal even though they cause cancer and weed isnt but no one has died from it yet?

skyy wrote:
I dont really care for weed but why are cigarettes legal even though they cause cancer and weed isnt but no one has died from it yet?

Cause, America has a long tradition with tobacco, and big tobacco likes money. Besides, Weed makes you wacky, but tobacco just makes you live several years less.

Marijuana is safer then tobacco.

lol. No it shouldn’t be legal.

The 1937 Marihuana Tax Act made possession or transfer of marijuana illegal throughout the United States under federal law, excluding medical and industrial uses, in which an expensive excise tax was required. Annual fees for the tax were $24 ($337 adjusted for inflation) for importers, manufacturers, and cultivators of marijuana, $1 annually ($14 adjusted for inflation) for medical and research purposes, and $3 annually ($42 adjusted for inflation) for industrial uses. Detailed marijuana sale logs were required to keep record of marijuana sales. Selling marijuana to any person who has previously paid the tax is $1 per ounce or fraction thereof; however, it is $100 ($1,406 adjusted for inflation) per ounce or fraction thereof to sell any person who has not registered and paid the special tax.[17]

Mandatory sentencing and increased punishment were enacted when the United States Congress passed the Boggs Act of 1952 and the Narcotics Control Act of 1956. The acts made a first time marijuana possession offense a minimum of two to ten years with a fine up to $20,000; however, in 1970, the United States Congress repealed mandatory penalties for marijuana offenses.[3]

either way you slice it, it was illegal before 1961.

Oh, alright then. Anyway, I don’t think it should be illegal.

So basically it is illegal because the government cant keep track of it for taxes. And i rather be wacky for a couple of hours than dead or in chemotherapy for lung cancer

skyy wrote:
So basically it is illegal because the government cant keep track of it for taxes. And i rather be wacky for a couple of hours than dead or in chemotherapy for lung cancer

No, the tax was just to make it harder for all the good stoners to get there fix, it wasn’t the reason. I think I’ve heard it had to do with the temperence movement wanting pot gone after they had gotten alcohol.

I think alcohol should be illegal and weed legal eventhough i dont really care for neither. Alcohol causes death weed doesnt but yet its still illegal. Maybe i dont understand because so many people get put in jail for something thats not even that serious

skyy wrote:
I think alcohol should be illegal and weed legal eventhough i dont really care for neither. Alcohol causes death weed doesnt but yet its still illegal. Maybe i dont understand because so many people get put in jail for something thats not even that serious

We tried making alcohol illegal. It was a resounding failure.

Breaking The Silence wrote:
I blame Harry Aslinger for his overthinking and stupidity.

Making alcohol illegal will never happen because its a world wide accepted thing.

But it did happen… Failed miserable, was legalized later.

I think this government is backwards seriously. Sometimes i hate the sight of alcohol because ive seen what it can do to people while weed on the other hand just relaxes people and cause them to think they are thinking deep

While I do agree that it would be good to rake up the tax money from the legalazation of marijuana would be nice but some of the facts you stated are wrong. Studies show that smoking marijuana is 50-70% WORSE for your lungs than tobacco smoke. Also marijuana does permanent damage to your braincells. There is no way to regrow brain cells. I’m aware that marijuana can be ingested orally as well but that can lead to liver damage as well. On addiction, blunts contain traces of nicotine which can give you an addiction to marijuana, pot is usually laced with other drugs which can lead to addiction, finally marijuana gives you an emotional dependency. This is not a chemical addiction. Once you get high you feel good but when you come down you feel strung out. So then you get high again to feel better. Then eventually you are getting high just to feel normal. So when you feel strung out after that you fall really hard. That is my two cents.

rowass(the great) wrote:
While I do agree that it would be good to rake up the tax money from the legalazation of marijuana would be nice but some of the facts you stated are wrong. Studies show that smoking marijuana is 50-70% WORSE for your lungs than tobacco smoke. Also marijuana does permanent damage to your braincells. There is no way to regrow brain cells. I’m aware that marijuana can be ingested orally as well but that can lead to liver damage as well. On addiction, blunts contain traces of nicotine which can give you an addiction to marijuana, pot is usually laced with other drugs which can lead to addiction, finally marijuana gives you an emotional dependency. This is not a chemical addiction. Once you get high you feel good but when you come down you feel strung out. So then you get high again to feel better. Then eventually you are getting high just to feel normal. So when you feel strung out after that you fall really hard. That is my two cents.

To avert the lung damge, there are always vaporizers.

I dont smoke, but I know that the reason it cant be made legal is because its a weed and can be grown anywhere there is dirt. So basically no one can make money out of it. Meaning the government would get no profits. Something I read by Noam Chomsky.

Tony Lopez wrote:
I dont smoke, but I know that the reason it cant be made legal is because its a weed and can be grown anywhere there is dirt. So basically no one can make money out of it. Meaning the government would get no profits. Something I read by Noam Chomsky.

Not very logical of the goverment, they could just tax growers and consumers like they do with tobacco, and make a fortune.

See but with tobacco you need a special kind of soil and there is chemical processes involved. Also the government would never know if someone was growing that stuff or not. They just cant tax at random.

Tony Lopez wrote:
See but with tobacco you need a special kind of soil and there is chemical processes involved. Also the government would never know if someone was growing that stuff or not. They just cant tax at random.

Yes…. They would know, there would be giant weed farms, and farm companies would grow it.

Personally I think it should be legal despite some potential side effects. These effects are far less serious than many Over the counter meds and common prescription drugs. I think that if we were to be less hypocritical in our stance toward drugs we should make the Partnership for a Drug Free America adds on TV sponsored by Lunesta, Enzyte or Viagra or a billion other pharmaceuticals. Also if you look at the history of the drug laws enacted in our country you would find that many were in response to anti- Mexican, Chinese or African-American feelings prevalent in the time of their drafting.

Weed farms? Lol for what? Weed can grow anywhere, why would you buy it of a 3rd party when you can make it yourself.

Tony Lopez wrote:
Weed farms? Lol for what? Weed can grow anywhere, why would you buy it of a 3rd party when you can make it yourself.

It can, but there would be masses grown at the farms to turn a profit.

Breaking The Silence wrote:
because it will be made illegal. and the fines will be so heavy that you will see it easier just to buy from the market rather than make it yourself.

Sure, we cant get everyone but just think of all the people who would actually buy it. Some people are impatient to wait for things to grow.

LMAO, so theres your answer now you know why its illegal. Because the government knows people will just end up growing them themselves.