Why is marijuana not legal but alcohol is and it kills people just as much as marijuana?

Shauna

Because they couldn't make prohibition stick. I think one day they will legalize marijuana. Plenty of other countries have...we're just behind.

IslandGuy

koz the govt is not making any big bucks out of weed, like they do with booze. that's why.

bbq

actually marijuana has never killed anyone and generally when they say marijuana was involved its because alcohol was too. have you ever known a stoner to get all riled up and crazy ? i think not !!!!!!
and as far as your question goes - i have no idea. been wondering myself for years

smartypants909

What a stupid question- marijuana does not kill people.

Handsome Devil

too much money is made by it being illegal.

Richard G

because the goverment couldn't tax it....
everyone would be growing their own

Paul I

money ,money ,money.Hemp was declared illegal about the same time Dupont started making paper from wood fibre.Since paper used to be made from hemp,this cleared the way for a no competition market on the process.

mrnorwood55

you have to understand one thing, the government don't want it legal, because they stand to make more money by capturing the people who does smoke and sell by finding them, and on top of that the government can't get any tax money from the sale

GibbardJunkie

Well, years ago, many American officials believed that alcohol lead to a better living. Marijuana to most Americans represents gangs and urban fighting etc.....so, since our ancestors drank, we do too. Great question though....hope I helped

catwoman

i don't know. i need a drink

ally

the interesting point to make is that alcohol actual kills more people and is more detrimental than marijuana. marijuana is one of the least addictive substances out there and is in fact effective at treating adverse symptoms resulting from chemo and hiv treatments.

kapute2

you tell me and we'll both know. I think marijuana should be regulated the same way alcohol is

Super C00L

Because the government has not found a way to make money from it yet. If they leaglized it, they would open the flood gates to other street drugs.

They can do it with alcohol and cigarettes by taxing it more. The reason for making substances illegal have nothing to do with the death rate. If that were the case, cars would be illegal, because they kill more people every year than every drug on the planet combined, and I am not including impared driving accidents due to substance abuse.

If I were King, I would legalize it all, let the weak minded kill themselves on their drug of choice. Eventually people would realize that they are responsible for what they do to their own bodies, not the government. It's ironic that the government tells us what we can and cannot do to our bodies except when it comes to abortion, then "It's a woman's body and she has a right to choose"... but it's actually affecting the rights of someone else, the baby.

For the guy above me, there has never been a marijuana overdose in the history of recorded time.

Laughing Man Copycat

I don't think marijuana has ever killed anybody ever...can someone document has there ever been a marijuana related death?

Because all the best marijuana is grown outside the U.S., I bet that if white southern farmers grew good weed instead of tobacco in the early days of this nation, it would be legal today.

fatkatn

There was a time when you could buy marijuana in the drug store.Then the religious & political groups had to stick their 2 cents in, as usual. Just think how much money could be made in taxes if they legalized marijuana.
I've never seen anyone try to out run the law or get really violent who was smoking . They're all too busy snarfing cheetos, LOL,but we all know the horrible things that happen when alcohol is involved.
They tried prohibiton of alcohol and it was a disaster, but I think legalizing marijuana is a good idea.People do it anyway and the government could make money off of it like they do with alcohol & cigarettes. People are never going to give up all of their vices anyway.

shadowproof9

Alchohol is by far worse than pot, in nearly every aspect. There's no reason why alcohol should still be legal.

donthatemecauseyouaintme

It does not kill near as many people as alcohol. It is illegal because in the 1920s some guy and I can't recall his name, but he decided it was time to make it illegal. Hence we had movies like Reefer Madness and soon enough marijuana became illegal. I believe it has stayed illegal thanks in large part to the alcohol and pharmaceutical companies. They do not want to compete with a legal marijuana because they know they would lose. Prozac and all these other anti-depressants would lose in that battle, so they, along with alcohol lobby the government to keep it illegal. Thanks and have a nice day.

averysplan

well first I wouldnt say that marijuana has killed anyone. you cant overdose on it, the worst side effects are sleep and the munchies. but I would say the reason is that alchol dates back way before weed. so the poloticans were proboly alchoholics so that law was easliy passed. but over time our legal system has become more complicated and times are differnt, now that we know how those things can hurt you it is froned apon. its just harder to pass laws.

Sherrie

Both can cause bad effects with over-use and lack of responsibility. There definitely is irony in allowing alcohol to be legal and marijuana, not. Do I think that marijuana should be legalized? Yes. However, it will be the cause of more deaths because it does impair your judgement whether addicts would like to admit it, or not. I know first hand.

So, Hey! Why not allow something else that results in more deaths. That's okay, right? Hey!!! Let's cloud ourselves with something else...that's okay, too.

In either case, people hate life so much they don't want use either with moderation.

Humans should have free will to do what they want, this is true. Marijuana will continue to be abused by youth that don't understand the efftects it can have, or simply don't care.
Same with alcohol.

Money will always be in the mind of the government whether they say they have good intention in either case, regardless.

I'll tell you what the government should do with their money... teach responsibility with both marijuana and alcohol to instill good judgement in the minds of people.
People do have to be told what to do, or they'll keep on making bad choices. But, hey! Marjority doesn't care, anyway!!!

Dave of the Hill People

Basically, our nation's bad experience with Prohibition is the reason alcohol is still legal. Were it up to the medical profession, alcohol would be illegal as well.

But my guess is that the policymakers of today are saddened by all the bad effects on our society caused by legal alcohol, and they fear that legalizing marijuana will lead to similar bad effects. They think "two wrongs don't make a right." Obviously, there are lots of inherent differences between marijuana and alcohol that make grouping them together counter-intuitive, but my guess is that's the way the geezers who run our country have been taught to think.

Our nation's long history of drinking and getting drunk probably also plays into it. Our Founding Fathers didn't toke the spleefa the way they drank the wine and beer. Marijuana, on the other hand, has culturally been connected with anti-establishment types, so why would The Establishment want to do them any favors?

Pleiades

People have been asking this question for a long time. Neither has to kill or ruin lives. Really, why not just meditate and save your body and mind and money?
I think it is just a "can of worms" that no politician wants to risk his/her support over. The people-in-power won't act on it so no grass roots (sorry) action ever gains ground.

AND JUST THINK OF THE TAXES!!!

All things in moderation and none of it while driving or operating machinery, Right?

OK, let's let the oil companies grow the mary jane, rigtht next to the ethanol corn, compensate them for the losses in income from green vehicles....

mattinhoustontx

marijuana doesn't kill anyone

it's illegal because the pharmaceutical industry pays lobbyists to wine and dine lawmakers to make sure that Americans don't find out the truth about it

Gothic Rose

I have not heard of anyone dying due to marijuana but you hear of many due to alcohol so that is a good question.

njgreenbudd

Because the politicians, lawmakers, judges and police of our nation are all drunks, they get the spins when they smoke weed so they prefer to just stay drunk.

Alcohol is actually a toxin , not a drug , it "impairs" brain function rather than alter it. You can easily die from alcohol in one night, I'd like to hear of anyone dieing explicitly from using marijuana.

KIB

Listen People! This isn't tough. Marijuana has Tetrohydrocannabinal or THC. Your brain cell becomes a host to THC. It does not leave and keeps building up in the brain. If it took you 5 Mags to get high the first time and you keep it up soon you will only need 1 to get you high but you won't know it. Then you become a Mushhead! How much of a mushhead is only specualtive depending on your use. One must understand that it affects the way you think. Use the brain you have left to decide what that affect might be!

Alchohol destroys brain cells but does not become part of the cell. that can be stopped/reversed by going on the wagon (or stop drinking for you know nothings out there.)

plezurgui

Because members of Congress passed a bill and the President signed it making marijuana illegal. Exactly what their reasoning was I don't know, but I think basically it amounts to the fact that the US could not stand 2 addiction problems as bad as Alcohol.
For those folks that defend marijuana, you are wrong. Marijuana use can ruin your life or kill you. Driving impaired by marijuana has killed people, not the marijuana directly but in auto accidents. It has been shown that marijuana does damage to brain cells. My goodness, I don't have enough good functioning ones as it is, I don't think I need to do anything that would hurt the ones I got!
Last, and certainly not least, marijuana is illegal. Using marijuana can get you fired from your good job and keep you from getting a good job or career. Get caught with too much and go to jail, not a good idea.

ken y

this question is getting old

x66red66x

Probably because people choose to drink because it is legal.If marijuana was legal you would see more deaths related to it.

Elaenor Maw

Alcohol is worse, it make people very fat and act stupid, it makes me laugh they ban smoking in pubs when people are killing themselfs drinking loads of alcohol, I would rather be a smoker any day to being a drunk.

420Bob

Well, with mis-guided nonsense spouted by folk like x66red66x! I dont think so. Are we talking about cannabis or crack? Unfortunatley the majority of the UK public are so missinformed and biased (because if they dont use it then why should others?) that they will never allow its use even for medication. The fact that cannabis does help in cases of cancer, cystic fibrosis & MS aswell as asthma is beside the point to most of the public, they'd much rather watch bigbrother or x factor then listen to what they percieve (because of the spoon feeding biased media - who are in bed with the big pharmaceutical companys who would loose out if cannabis based medicine was available!) to be druggy propaganda. The hypocracy and irony would be funny if it was n't true. I'm not saying its a wonder drug. but I'd rather use cannabis then spend a fortune on codiene and risk liver and kidney problems because thats what some trumped up over payed politician who has never had to work to live thinks is right. Like Christ said 'It is not what enters a mans mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of a mans mouth, that is what defiles him.' Lying politicians will burn for ever for wanting to persecute me for having a burn. The perceived problems of cannabis are caused by prohabition which has pushed cannabis into the arms of criminals. We need to end prohabition and smack idiots who blame thier problems on a plant. I have been self medicating for 2 decades, in that time I gained a degree and set up three business of which two are still running, I have no criminal record & have never been arrested. I also passed my driving test 1st time and I was still a little high from the night before, I've never had an accident in the 15 years I have been on the road.

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