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Why is marijuana illegal?
I've found myself thinking about this recently; why is marijuana illegal? Is it because it's addictive? Well, no, because cigarettes are significantly more addictive, and kill a hundred times as many people each year. I guess it's because it impairs judgment... well, no, because alcohol impairs judgment and it's consumed in large quantities around the world. So it must be illegal because it's bad for you... well, no because you can get prescriptions for it, so it must be medically good. In fact, I've seen someone lose a fever of 103F in ten minutes after smoking a quarter of a joint. So what makes it illegal?
It's illegal because the government can't regulate it. Whenever you buy a pack of cigarettes, the government gets a cut. When you buy alcohol, it's usually from a store run by the government. Tax is imposed on anything you buy at the drug store, so the government makes money on Advil and such as well. However, anyone who wants to can grow a marijuana plant and smoke it, which means the government doesn't have any control over it. If there was a way for the government to regulate marijuana, I guarantee you'd be seeing it for sale on the shelves of every drug or convenience store in North America.
Marijuana has similar short term effects to alcohol, so I think it should be treated as such. Don't make smoking or buying it illegal, but make it illegal to drive while under the influence of it. Have the government grow their own plants, and sell them, so they can make money off it; after all, in some European countries the governments make seven million dollars a year on marijuana sales.
Marijuana is less addictive than cigarettes, less impairing than liquor, less dangerous than cigarettes, and better for your health than Tylenol, and yet it is illegal while these other substances are not. Am I the only one seeing something wrong here?
I've found myself thinking about this recently; why is marijuana illegal? Is it because it's addictive? Well, no, because cigarettes are significantly more addictive, and kill a hundred times as many people each year. I guess it's because it impairs judgment... well, no, because alcohol impairs judgment and it's consumed in large quantities around the world. So it must be illegal because it's bad for you... well, no because you can get prescriptions for it, so it must be medically good. In fact, I've seen someone lose a fever of 103F in ten minutes after smoking a quarter of a joint. So what makes it illegal?
It's illegal because the government can't regulate it. Whenever you buy a pack of cigarettes, the government gets a cut. When you buy alcohol, it's usually from a store run by the government. Tax is imposed on anything you buy at the drug store, so the government makes money on Advil and such as well. However, anyone who wants to can grow a marijuana plant and smoke it, which means the government doesn't have any control over it. If there was a way for the government to regulate marijuana, I guarantee you'd be seeing it for sale on the shelves of every drug or convenience store in North America.
Marijuana has similar short term effects to alcohol, so I think it should be treated as such. Don't make smoking or buying it illegal, but make it illegal to drive while under the influence of it. Have the government grow their own plants, and sell them, so they can make money off it; after all, in some European countries the governments make seven million dollars a year on marijuana sales.
Marijuana is less addictive than cigarettes, less impairing than liquor, less dangerous than cigarettes, and better for your health than Tylenol, and yet it is illegal while these other substances are not. Am I the only one seeing something wrong here?