Why is marijuana use so stigmatized when alcohol, which causes so many fatalities and family grief is legal??

ken y

it's all about taxes

jim

$$$$$....The federal & state governments make billions of dollars every year taxing alcohol. They're talking out of both sides of their mouth. Alcohol(&tobacco) is bad for you, don't do it. But they profit from the resulting consequences. Hypocrits !

Miss Crickett

I have asked this for years! It should all be illegal!

T-bone

God made pot, man made beer. which one do you trust?

pink_angel

Because the people who make the laws are drunks, not potheads

watcherofmankind

It is due to the stupidity of the law makers.

Holbrook

Because the Kennedys could not get rich off of it like they did alcohol =)~(That is how the Kennedys got their money in the beginning running illegal alcohol during Prohibition) =)~...I think manly because it can be produced at home and the government can not tax it...it is the same way with home made whiskey, Moonshine, it is illegal...Free the Weed!!!

Lab Runner

Money my man money so much money in taxes and bars downtown any city make so much for a town or city that you couldnt make it illegal but i do agree Weed should be legal as the government can make the same money off of taxes and smoke bars as they do Alcohol so all in all its just the messed up place we live in but i have to tell you i wouldnt want to live any where else

Tracy

Alcohol fatalities is the easiest of all alcohol related problems. It makes you hear voices to kill ppl, men spend their paycheck on it and make their kids do without, you can't withdrawl yourself...etc.

kissybertha

Because big bro hasn't quite figured out how the can profit from it yet, see people can grow there own and not buy it so it can't be taxed. the Sh*t in our cigarettes or more toxic and more addictive.

to protect and serve

back in the 1930's it was illegal.however police couldn't enforce it so well so they dropped it.

Old Guy

The bottom line is $$. I would like to see it legalized as I would much rather drink some pot tea or eat some pot brownies than drink alcohol. Smoking is still bad for your lungs no matter what's in the pipe. If the Govt would legalize Tetra Hydra Canabanol and let people raise pot to extract the THC, the THC could be processed, purified and approved for sale by the FDA. Then it could be taxed like alcohol. The liquid would have a controlled THC content much like liquor does and would make one hell of a cash crop for those that would want to grow it. Most of all, it would take it out of the criminal environment so people would not get involved with crime just to score a little weed.

DASHLOC4ever

It is very complicated but it has a stigma because it is illegal. If pot was in use at the level of alcohol then you would see more fatalities. Alcohol has been in use for so long by so many people in cannot be banned. Pot; although popular, is used in relatively light numbers.

izaboe

watch the movie GRASS, narrated by Woody Harrelson. this is exactly the topic. it's a conspiracy, man!!

Jeff

I think Hunter S. Thompson said it best. Every society has their drug of choice, and the only drugs Americans trust are alcohol and tobacco. We've got a long history with those two drugs that dates back to before we were a country. We relied upon them for trade and they were socially acceptable (even encouraged) to use.

FascFiter

Marijuana got a bad image from the Hearst rags in the 1930's spinning sensational stories of "Reefer Madness"-- one puff kept making people into raving lunatics. This is what got it made illegal. Plus it ws associated with Black jazz musicians, Mexican immigrants, and other unsavory types to whitebread America. The logic of marijuana being less harmful than alcohol cannot penetrate a mindset based on emotionalism and lies.

i think that it should be legalize

mskissis

They won't "legalize" it because it would be very hard to tax it. It is soooo easy to grow in your own home, if it were sold at stores, who would buy government taxed weed?

I firmly believe in the legalization of marijuana. There are many medicinal purposes with it. And the best part, it is an herb. I would rather ingest a plant the big man upstairs provided us then some pill manufactured by some big pharmacy company.

So what if it is illegal, I still use it occasionally for migraines and kidney pain. I am waiting for more people from my generation to get into office, hopefully the whole pot is bad for you stigma will be banished (it's all those older people who think marijuana kills you, WHATEVER! they need to smoke a bowl).

Bones

Because we spend 70 billion dollars PER YEAR in our "war on drugs". The 1st fatality in any war is truth.
For an actual answer read Jack Herers book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" it will make you angry and ashamed once you read the documented facts. And the facts in the book are well documented.

Stormin' Norman

alcohol use is legal because prohibition was a disaster!

I love weed

Karina Sandra

I donÂ´t no.

songndance1999

I can have a drink and not get drunk, but I can't have a smoke and not get high. This is like comparing apples to oranges. They are both drugs but not similiar at all.
Mary Jane should stay illegal.

Alcohol cause more fatalities because far more people drink than smoke. So there are bound to be more incidents. Also smokers are more likely to drive about 15 MPH in a 55 when they're high but still think they are going pretty fast.

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