Why is marihuana illegal?
155529
Its not illegal...\nIt maybe illegal in the US and thats because of voting for the wrong people
434337
Well in a free society, where your freedom ends where mine begins, there is no justification for banning marijuana at all. You know all the arguments. People die from alcohol, while nobody has ever died from marijuana. Marijuana does not normally cause violent mood swings as alcohol often does. There are dozens of good reasons to legalize it.\n\nAlso, if you legalize it, the DEA would be free to spend more resources stopping meth labs, and crack houses, and heroin, which are the drugs that truly damage society. There are millions of people in the USA who are chronic pot smokers. They'll never stop. They pay taxes, they obey the speed limit. They are not criminals, but criminals benefit from selling dope. Why not legalize it and put them out of business?\n\nI know many people who smoke marijuana on some level. Either every day, once a week, or maybe once a year. I know for a fact that the laws have nothing to do with their decision. Their 'pot-intake' would not change if it was legal.
455222
Heres a link to an article on the "conspiracy"...Otherwise known as the real reason pot is illegal.\n\nhttp://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm\n\n\nPeace
605014
Marijuana is illegal for political reasons. It has nothing to do with safety.
797756
Not comletely legal...and even if it were federal law over rides states...haven't you seen the med marijauna in CA??\n\nIt's not now...but we are still working on it...\n\nThe government can't keep the lie up much longer...people know that marijuana is not nearly as harmful as they try making it out to be.\n\nI am more concerned with my son trying harder drugs than pot...in fact I would be more angry if he come home drunk than if he come home high....but I would still be pi**ed!
998855
i can answer that in one simple word....MONEY...the government makes way too much money off of marijuana busts to make it legal...i know its fucked up but thats just the way it is.. marijuana is the only harmless drug on "Schedule I" (others include: LSD, opiads, methanphetamines...etc. (look it up). \n\nschedule I means....supposedly: "it has no medicinal purpose at all"... so therefore there can not be any government funded research on the subject to advocate its' legalization...\n\ni could go on forever on this debate but its tiresome to type that much, i really wish it was legal as i'm a "fan" of it...lol....\n\ncontact me if you care to hear anymore of my opinion...
753109
The cotton industry used its power via lobbyists to pressure congress to make hemp/cannabis illegal. This was done years and years ago. \n\nAlso, you will notice that alcohol is enjoyed by the wealthy. Attend any high class function and the expensive liquor will be flowing! \n\nThat my friend is why Marijuana is illegal.
194897
Why WOULDN'T pot be legal?  Lets talk about what is legal and what is not legal... Alcohol is legal - People can get drunk all they want.  The fact is when people get drunk, they often get violent, and alcohol is a leading cause of family violence.  With weed, the worst thing people do is get the giggles and crave fast food.  Pot is not like other drugs (IE coke or other chemical drugs).  Pot is not physically addictive.  Its a natural plant from the earth, not processed in any way.  How can a PLANT from God be illegal?
419312
lol...you just wanna smoke....but jokes a side I agree....sadly Marijuana has to major enemies...namely the Alcohol and Tobacco industries.....in fact those 2 substances are proven that they WILL KILL YOU and yet they are perfectly legal to take.....it is big business......just to see how potent this issue is.....for example if the state of California legalized and took control over the distribution of marijuana it would solve their financial problems in one stroke!
1045113
Because state medical marijuana is just another lame excuse for dope-heads getting high.  Stop that crap...smoke salmon.
591400
c - d - e - f\n\nShould never have been illegal to start with, just got that way because of Hearst publications resenting the hemp industry back in the 1930s
948299
Well, marijuana isn't hallucinogenic...at least not normally.\n\nMy theories are a) racism b) the cotton and pharmaceutical lobby/taxation\n\nRacism--- Marijuana originally was a drug for blacks and just like Jim Crow laws, it was another way to stick it to 'em.  If you look through history, drugs only become illegal in America when associated w/ a minority group.  Take opium for instance...was enjoyed by Americans until the Chinese came to Cali to build the RR.  White men became worried that the Chinese men were seducing white women in their opium dens...so, they made it illegal as a mechanism of oppression.  \n\nLobbyists- Well, hemp is a wonderfully strong material and much more durable than cotton...and marijuana being herbal and something you could grow yourself means that pharmaceutical companies can't profit on.  \n\nThere is no good reason why marijuana is illegal, especially for medical use when oxycontin/morphine which can be deadly and is highly addictive is widely used.  It is so hypocritical.  Marijuana has been proven to treat glaucoma, and is a great pain reliever/appetite stimulant for cancer patients.\n\nFYI:  Teen drug use is lower in Amsterdam where everything is legal than is in the US.  Makes you wonder who are laws are trying to protect because it sure isn't you and I.\n\nGood question, by the way.
1123550
I don't think marijuana should have ever been illegal, I think it is just as dangerous as alcohol.  I think the issue was and always will be that alcohol was consumed by "white men" and marijuana was consumed by "Native Americans."  When we took control of what now is the US we shunned all Native culture, and marijuana part of that.  Currently Marlboro cigarettes already owns the rights to produce "joints" should marijuana be legalized.  I think it's about time that people changed their attitudes on this subject.
1129278
Well.. I am Dutch and I could ask the same question for my country. It is tolerated for more then 30 years in the whole of the Netherlands (so not just the city of Amsterdam), but still not legal. That's mainly because of pressure from other countries and the European community, even if we have the lowest amount of harddrug addicts because of our drugpolicy.\n\nI find it completely ridiculous that it is still illegal to smoke a plant!\n\nSo, if it is still not legal here after such a long time of tolerance, I don't know where you come from but if you are Americain I wouldn't bet on a quick legalisation.
750149
Because ILLEGAL means NOT LEGAL.
512143
Because they cannot arrest everyone.  And the only reason marijuana is illegal anyway is to keep kids from smoking it.  It's really better for you than alcohol.  Most people I know smoke it, and those who don't are cool with it.  I know a bunch of cops that smoke too.
1102075
because its not legal