Website review: Why is Marijuana Illegal?
rxreed discovered this in Drugs
•273 reviews since Jan 27, 2005
drugs, marijuana, history
•blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/wh...
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Fjool rated 7 months ago- A very well written and informative history on the prohibition of cannabis.
- MusicAddiction rated 7 months ago
- Very necessary! I wish more Americans could see this page. I wish Congress and the Executive Branch would take a look at this site!
- girlsetsfire rated 7 months ago
- Know your history!
- ShawtyIsA10 rated 7 months ago
- dumb question but good answer
- BuyAbsinthe rated 7 months ago
- OMG i learned all this but from my own separate google search here and there a few years ago... This is a great article because it sums it up, but ive read some things that arent exactly said the same... nevertheless i hope one day the truth can spread wide enough to reach the majority !
- Nuskrad rated 7 months ago
- According to Harry J. Anslinger, marijuana turns black people into incredibly violent pacifists who don't know their place in society. Seems like a good reason to ban it to me!
- AvangionQ rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "You'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with: * Racism * Fear * Protection of Corporate Profits * Yellow Journalism * Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators * Personal Career Advancement and Greed * These are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal." ... [REPEAT POST #1] The War on Drugs is a miserable systematic failure ... lost tax revenue in the billions per year - rather than the government getting a cut of the profit, thousands of non-violent drug offenders wasting in strenuously overcrowded prisons, increases in street level violence directly connected to gangs and drug enforcement, etc ... so long as the demand for alternate means of self-medication persists, the War on Drugs will continue to be a wasted wasteful effort ... [REPEAT POST #2] The current statistic of the $42 Billion figure doesn't include the money we're wasting in keeping non-violent offenders incarcerated in jails, thanks largely to the get tough on crime laws. At a time when our dollar is going into freefall and government spending is causing us to borrow billions from China, we can no longer afford our extravagant spending - we would be much better off legalizing these drugs and then taxing them to regain some lost revenue. Worse yet, the Federal War on Drugs is an unconstitutional violation of the 10th Amendment - Congress doesn't have the legal authority to enact laws that should be dealt with on a state level. Worse yet still, most doctors and scientists agree that marijuana has some medical benefits, is non-addictive and overdosing does not directly lead to death. As a side note, Hemp - a related plant of marijuana which is currently illegal - has numerous economically viable textile and agricultural applications. Lastly, the War on Drugs has done nothing to stem the demand for these substances and due to their illegality, has directly led to a rise of organized crime. Have we learned nothing from Prohibition? Its time to end this failed endeavor known as the War on Drugs ... [REPEAT POST #3] The United States is currently over 9 trillion dollars in debt, meaning that every American citizen owes over 30,000 in tax debt. On top of that, our Dollar has dropped dramatically in value - so much so that the United States Dollar no longer the currency of choice for global transactions. Eventually, someone's gonna call in the loan and we're going to enter a fiscal crisis when the government will be unable to pay the debt - which will lead to other countries calling in their loans in a panic. While we have some time and before we force ourselves into the next great depression, we have to figure out our largest fiscal expenditures and cut them from the budget entirely. Ending the War on Drugs, legalizing and then taxing these substances seems a prudent financial decision to getting us out of the debt hole that we've recently acquired ... [REPEAT POST #4] Its unlikely that we'll see a change with this Presidency - looking forward to attempting to convince the next president elect that these numbers don't lie ... [ADDENDUM] I could go through my blog finding more and more of these news articles, but things aren't likely to change until 2009 ...
- yukonwags rated 7 months ago
- Well for all those who are arguing this is a logical fallacy (and no, this article isn't an argument of logic, just a history).
Why is alcohol legal after prohibition? Shouldn't it have stayed illegal because of the harm it causes and also as it was criminalized under false religious pretenses? It was repealed because it made a nation of criminals who went to underground bars and gave incredible amounts of power to organized crime for bootlegging.
Any of this sound familiar for some other drug? - Well for all those who are arguing this is a logical fallacy (and no, this article isn't an argument of logic, just a history).
