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I have smoked marijuana probably 5 times in my life. That was when I was in high school, and everyone around me was doing it and they would pressure me to do it with them. I never got any effects of it, so it has been nearly 20 years since I have done it. I would much rather drink and get drunk.
Let's refresh our memory and who brought us Prohibition, and what it caused.
Just another way of government running our lives for us, creating criminals to fill our jails and run our streets, just like the days of Al Capone and Prohibition. Started by the Progressive era Democrats in Congress and the Senate. Woodrow Wilson actually vetoed it and it went back through legislature and in 1920, you had an illegal profitable business venture. Not unlike today, just on a bigger scale. Gangs and crime. We spend so much taxpayers dollars, chasing the Dragon. Controlling a persons life, is not Liberty.
Marijuana laws began as a way to 'control' the Mexican immigrant population. Hmm.. controlling Mexican immigrants... does that sound like a progressive democrat thing to do? Sounds more like a republican talking point to me.
It was also a state thing at first and on a federal level was not technically illegal until much later.
I think your marijuana history is a bit off. You got the right idea that it's not the government's job to control our lives, though.
I believe that if medical marijuana is to be legal that it should be produced under carefully licensed and controlled facilities and dispensed at regular pharmacies as every other controlled drug rather than what we are seeing in Colorado and California.
Marijuana laws began as a way to 'control' the Mexican immigrant population. Hmm.. controlling Mexican immigrants... does that sound like a progressive democrat thing to do? Sounds more like a republican talking point to me.
It was also a state thing at first and on a federal level was not technically illegal until much later.
I think your marijuana history is a bit off. You got the right idea that it's not the government's job to control our lives, though.
No. Marijuana laws were put in place under pressure from the wood pulp industry and paper production.
Allowing Marijuana to be made into paper would kill the wood pulp industry.
Having been raised a mentally abused christian fundamentalist I'll say I did more for my mental stability smoking pot than any doctor or psychiatrist could have done with prescripton meds.
Ultimately, there's only one reason pot is illegal.
Ultimately, there's only one reason pot is illegal.
Government interference.
Yes, to keep a long answer short; because the government can't profit off marijuana. Pot is a plant and anyone can grow it, so it is very hard to tax. It's like you and I trading some potatoes for carrots in our garden. The government doesn't get their share.
However there is some history to why hemp and marijuana really were banned in the first place and it was based on paper, oil and pharmaceutical companies not wanting it legal.
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