why is it illegal?

i seriously have no clue why pot is illegal. People who smoke it smoke much less than people who smoke cigarettes. And last year when i saw smoking every other day i got straight A's in school. So my questions is, why is pot frowned upon by our society?

 

society = sheep.
sheep = stupid.
pot = free thinking

a shepherd (government) cannot allow free thinking on his sheep now can he?
= pot illegal

 

societies minds been pioisioned by corporate lies
many industries have spent millions to demonize it..

canabis's only fault is in that its...too good
universaly
its too usefull for too many things...and it does what it does too well..it would hurt so many inferiur products that are already well estrablished

 

Because it will make young white women listen to Jazz and date black people.

 

cause of maybe 50% single teen mothers in my area

 

Pretty much

Tobacco and Alcohol lobbyists (they'd make shit all from it) + The Religious Right Wing (and the right wing in general) + Propaganda that's still taken as truth by a lot of people = No legal dope.

 

Mexicans.

Thats the short answer, Im not telling the whole god damn story..... again.

And no I'm not racist towads mexicans... The people that made pot ilegal were.

 

because 1/2 the pplk in the world are too scared to try it n decide for themselves
wherever its takin votes recently its come so close if it failed like 1% more woulda passed ..it wont be illigal much longer

what the legalization thing needs is a really wealthy patron and a big ass project to grow several thousand acres (maybe alot more i dunno) and refill the oil resserve with hemp oil
we really need to have hemp legalized really really soon or shits gonna get bad
im guessin we better be plantin a hrell of alot really soon & puttin up with seeds awhile till we got enough to plant all the feilds were gonna need when its legal
& very lil of that wil be for smokin (medicinal/high)
just the industrial use once legaly utilizable will make the demand sizeable in a hurry


the purple mountains magesty will reffer to the kush

the thing is though..we need to get a crop going like now..
and start settin up seed banks

 

because the government makes so much money busting people with it

also a major reason:

pot causes lazyness. if it was legal, millions of people would smoke it, eventually becoming lazy and not making enough money. we would become a poor country with a shitty economy. all the countries that have it legalized have like no money lol.

 

bullshit
its costing us millions housing non violent pot smokers in jails
how much are they making exactly? we..taxpayers are spending to house ppl who have done nothing wrong..


ppl who smoke are in no way lazier, the economy is crumbling as we speak and legalizing such a useful benificial and renewable resource as herb would only help the economy greatly
it maybe the only thing that coulkd save it in fact

 

Soaringeagle '08!

 

it's a well known and well documented fact that smoking weed causes lazyness lol and plus i know because it makes me lazy sometimes. if it's never made you lazy, that's kinda weird. but everyones different, so that's very possible i guess.

 

what causes laziness is...the need to hide the smoking..sitting indoors doing nothing..
open those doors and let every1 smoke without worry and ppl are far more likely to go out and do things

very few ppl i know could fall into the lazy stoner catagory
but in areas where smoking openly is more the norm ppl are much more active and get more done
ofcourse creatting an environment where millions of ppl have to sit in darkened rooms for hours hiding the fact they smoke will create a lotta ppl who get lazy...
its not the cause of smoking..but of sitting and smoking...not being able to just walk down the streeet puffin away
if coffee was illegal coffee would make coffee drinkers lazy too..


well documented facts are not all they appear

 

I came across this link a while ago. It adds some historical stuff to why pot is illegal. http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html . Its kind of long but it adds perspective and it tells the history of the prohibition.

 

I have to dissagree. When I am sober I am far from motivated and way more lazy than I am when I am stoned. As a matter of fact I smoked today for the first time in like 2 weeks and cleaned my room for the first time in 2 weeks after I got good and stoned.

 

that was your first time in 2 weeks tho. if i smoke every day for a long time eventually it starts to get to me and i become lazier. i never work out as much as i used to.

 

i can see where you're coming from soaringeagle. i agree that people wouldn't be as lazy if it became legal, but eventually i think some people would lose their motivation to go to work every day lol

 

I must have worded it wrong. I have been smoking for 4 years. But for the past 2 weeks I hadnt. then today when I did I got motivated to clean my room.

 

Opium was the first substance made illegal back in the early 1900s
That was banned because of constant reports of asians using the drug to seduce white women into having sex with them

Since then more substances have been deemed illegal, of course weed, lsd and shrooms etc fall into the category of hippy and antigovernment associatives
Mainly it was racism, much like asians and opium, but instead african americans and mexicans

 

really?
and what exactrly is your motivation to go to work every day?

how exactly does pot make u less motivated to eat?
ya work so u can afford to live..u need to eat to live, pot reminds ya to eat..
when your outta food and outta weed ya goto work

motivation

if i had the urege to smoke more then i can currently afford to..i got motivation to earn more


how can u believe the anti weed hype and still smoke weed?


1 thing weed may teach you though..is ya dont need to drive a porche to be happy
sop in that it can lower your ambition to have more then ya need

but, it teaches ya to share as well, so u make sure those around ya have all they need