Why is pot illegal?

[Guest]

Pot isn't any more or less dangerous than alcohol- both are equally dangerous. In a perfect world people would act responsibly under the influence of both and remain at home or in some other safe environment while intoxicated or high so they wouldn't pose a threat to innocent people. However, people often drive while drunk or high, exposing innocent people to irrational thoughts and actions. How realistic is it to think people will remain at home after getting high or drunk until it wears off fully? It's not realistic and that's where the problem begins. Alcohol is bad enough and people are stupid enough drunk- they don't need the added effects of marijuana. It's not a case of legalizing it or not legalizing it, it's a case of people's inability to control their own actions. It's similar to the idea that anarchy would be viable if all people were responsible and intelligent enough to control themselves. We all know that isn't the case. I know that when made illegal during the Prohibition years, alcohol became and even bigger problem in society and people acted even more irresponsibly than they previously had. There's no clear cut answer. If people had acted responsibly in the first place, alcohol would not have been made illegal thereafter. It all comes down to restraint. Some people can't control themselves and the rest of society suffers.


And my first post had nothing to do with why or why not pot should be legalized. I hate when people throw around facts and figures without actually having the resources to back them up. It's dangerous because someone might read one of the posts in which someone said pot doesn't impair you and then smoke, get in the car, and get into an accident. Hearsay and personal experience do not count as facts.

 

[Problem Child]

I saw an interesting show on PBS about this. They said that during prohibition, pot was legal. In fact they said it was sold, very cheaply, at drugstores, in pre rolled cigarettes. The thing was, it wasn't fashionable among white wealthy people. The people who were buying it were slaves, and others of foreign descent (god I hope thats the pc way to say that). Eventually, those in power decided that pot was "Making black people go crazy", and that there would be some kind of uprisng in the streets. It was made illegal very quickly...and here we are. I was stoned when I watched it (as I am now and every darn time ya'll see me) so forgive me if my memory is hazy.

There were no slaves in the U.S. during prohibition beck. I forgive you though- I know you're stoned.

 

[Laurel]

Pot isn't any more or less dangerous than alcohol- both are equally dangerous.

Ah, thank you. So you think alcohol should be illegal?

What do you think is more harmful to society: a useless drug war that costs our government billions of dollars & gives criminals a steady income, or the occasional drug-related accident?

Do you believe in mandatory government-enforced curfews for all citizens, for our protection of course?

Your views on personal rights scare me. You are the type of person that is going to get this site shut down, because "someone might see this stuff and rape a woman! Not everyone can act responsibly, so we should censor and limit the majority!"

You should move to Iran. You'd like it there.

 

[Problem Child]

The war on drugs is lost.

Drug use is climbing again (albeit slightly)

We tie up military forces guarding our borders, and raiding foreign drug labs.

We have one of (if not the highest) rate of incarceration per capita among industrialized nations, with about half the prisoners incarcerated on drug charges.

Our police departments have become swaggering, kevlar-suited hit squads that kick doors down and go in shooting.

We have made the drug industry highly profitable. So profitable that organized gangs who derive their money from drug sales control large sections of our inner cities.

Citizens found in possesion of marijuana have their homes and property unconstitutionally seized in drug raids. What has happened to the 4th amendment in this country?

We practice utter hypocrisy by glorifying alcohol and simultaneously villifying marijuana- the most benign drug on the planet.

We deny sick people a toke on a joint because of our misguided hypocracy.

We make illegal the growing of a crop that would supply us a great deal of useful fiber and oil, while at the same time saving our forests and giving farmers a new source of income because we believe we can change legislate human behavior.

We are stupid as fuck.

 

[Laurel]

*bows at PC's feet reverently*

I'm not worthy!

 

[Sampson]

DRUGS!!!!

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[p_p_man]

Thanks Samson...

...I found the site interesting and informative (does that sound patronising - don't mean it that way).

Just saying thanks...