Why won't the government legalize marijuana?

Well, I Just have to ask. It bothers me so much to see how people hate pot so much. For one, no ones EVER ODed on it, No ones ever DIED from it unless they were stupid enough to go do something stupid, Everyones always happy and peacful on it. I just...

hate how they can aprove Alcohol and not WEED!!! each day people die from alcohol, for so many reasons... But pot... When do you EVER see anyone seriously hurt except for getting tackled by a cop for having it and trying to run???
It shows that Weed isnt that harmful, But the Government wont have it because so many profits can be made from it and so many people would actually have money.

I feel that if everyone smoked weed that EVERYONE would be happy and peacful.
If you have something to say that has to put me down, than dont bother because I will never give up a fight about my opinion.

If anyone can really answer me...
WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE TO TAKE SOMETHING AWAY AND PUNISH YOU FOR IT WHEN ALL IT DOES IS MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD?!?!
IS HE SCARED THAT THERE WOULDNT BE A WAR BECUASE OF THE PEACE? THERE WOULDNT BE ANY MONEY GOING TO HIM FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT DIE BECAUSE OF SOME STUPID CRAP THAT WENT ON?!?!?!

I dont know what im talking about. im just really bored and had to talk about something.

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peace

well I think marijuana should be legal its less harmful than alcohol and has medical use,but I can see one thing why they wont legalize the sh** other than the money issue Longterm use of marijuana can be harmful psychologically and physicaly on the mental part it can cause slow reaction of the brain and you can have bad control of your reflexes and motor skills longterm use can cause schizophrenia,dementia,psycosis,and severe paranoia,memory loss.for as much as I like weed those facts are true and the very reason it causes all of these things is another reason why the government will not legalize it.Yes for most people its a peaceful drug but its that small percentage of people that go crazy on it and kill somebody that gives the government a reason to keep it illegal.I think 1 day it will be legal but I think it will be a couple of years from now.

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i suport u on this they where going to ligalize it in texas if we got this one governer but eventually there r goin to ligalize it dont worry

cause bush is president

umm... there is alot of money to be made with the drug. think about it... if the gov't legalized it, the money saved could help our schools, public systems, etc. the reality of the situation is that although there are many that dont do any type of drugs there are many that do and taxation would not be such a bad thing. you pay your taxes when you smoke your tobacco or drink your alcohol. its no more of a gateway drug to cocaine or heroin as beer is to harder liquors. prohibition did not work in the past and your starting to see the times when the prohibition of now is needing change. its a personal choice i have made and its yours not too. its just sad when our one of current country's best money maker is in the pharmaceutical industry and they know what it is capable of so its kept illegal because they don't want you growing your own medicine. i understand the risks cause i am baked right now as i'm writing this but at times its the only thing that solves that stomach pain or killer headache. well i'm all out of stuff to ramble on about.

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Pot has been called a drug ... well it used to be classified as a plant, in the 50s society was brainwashed into believing if you smoked it that you may cut someone up with a big butcher knife... hard to understand how its illegal when the true gateway to all drugs is alcohol there is so many facts on how horrible the drug alcohol is but it seems the legalization of weed for cancer patients , people in chronic pain, is rapidly growing... so the facts are it is a medicine and has many beneficial factors...Im still looking for the benefits of being a drunk... not that im a drunk I hate drugs including alcohol... I like flowers one inpaticular and it works for all types of problems.but imagine it legall half the prisons in the US would be empty the government would loose money from probation, all the med companies would loose money society would be far more happy , less arrest for assault and battery, domestic violence etc. if you take someone really mad smoke a j with them they will be laughing at themself , the worst case sceneerio they will get the munchies... peace to all , I got the munchies now...

pot does not give you cancer. lol my mom smoked it when she had cancer to help ease her mind off the chemo, and she was against pot until that. anyways, the only side effect I can think of is that it lowers your immune system (but not to the point of cancer) just Pneumonia. Hell though, I love pot and I pray that soon it'll be legal. And you were right about everything you wrote. I think it's just the way the gov't makes money for schools, roads, etc. Like they arent already. and Concreteman's also right, I seen on t.v this teen killed his mom and dad, then told cops he did it b/c he was high. That def didn't help in keeping pot legal. The boy was just using it as a reason to try to get out of trouble. But, now he's also making people like this pot head miserable, always having to hide when smoking. and crap like that.

its our choice as americans to be able to smoke weed if we want just like its our choice to drink alcohol and smoke cigs which are worse than weed and legal. weed is the #1 cash crop in the U.S. and if the government made it so that people could only sell it to them, they would make a shitload of money selling it over the counter like cigs.

weed has been proven to halt breast cancer, and is being used as an alternative to chemo now. amsterdam is moving in the right direction.

hell yea I support you 100% they should legalize weed I mean more people die from drunck driveing then getting high

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the main reason that marjiuana is ilegal belive it or not if you look into it like most drugs the hate origionaly stemded from rasism I hate to say it but its true look it up but it is still illegal to this day for many resons one the goverment makes looks of money from it not only by busting people with it but by how they use the funds for it I don't want to go into it all just watch the flick

american drug war the last great white hope

I beleive that the reason the goverment doesn't legalize marijuana is because they can't tax it. I mean think about it, the government has always hated what it can't control, and you all realize how easy it would be to simply grow a pot plant in the corner of your room. And on a different note, I do not consider marijuana a drug. When I think of drugs I think of chemicals, and needles and weird white stuff you sniff up your nose. Alright let me say this. Flower. Now when I said flower I bet everyone who read this thought about a different kind of flower. You know why? Because the word flower is vague. Because there are so many different kinds of flowers because flowers are plants and are a part of nature, just like marijuana is a plant and anybody that know's anything about marijuana knows how many different kinds there are. Marijuana is all natural, and someone says it causes cancer and is addicting and dangerous, thats bull. Science shows that Marijuana has worked to put Cancer into remission. And dangerous? Alright, we'll say its dangerous, like riding a horse is dangerous. On a horse your perfectly fine unless you try to do something stupid while on the horse, then yes you have the possibility to get hurt, but are you going to blame the horse and try to make that horse illegal because you decided to try and surf on it? Only if your a complete moron. And yeah its possible to overdose on Marijuana, but you know how you do it? You have to smoke your own body weight in Marijuana, thats the only possible way to O.D on it. And I won't lie to you, I can't smoke 173 pounds of marijuana by myself, I don't honestly know anyone who can, but if you can and you do, then that goes back to being stupid again.Marijuana like anything in like has its ups and downs, its goods and its bads, and personally, I just think the government, and ignorant people, are just focusing on the negative. And if you people want to live your life focusing on the negative in everything, you go right no ahead, but I want to live a happy life, so don't try to ruin that for me.

I dont know for sure but I had heard that it was because they do not know how to tax it. and also that the beer companies from awhile back did not want it to be legal because it would cut into their profit. I have always thought that if the whole world would get high at the same time then there would be peace on earth. I agree with you 100% . They try to blame it all on pot when alcohol is proven to do more harm.

it is becaus ewe can grow it easily. much easier than tobaco. so that is why. the government is doing that for the money

the reasson I think (and I'm white and not racist at all) is because the white man didn't think of it in the first place back when there was slaves and so they made it illegeal back then and the white man did invent alchol so thats why it is legal but I have often said the same thing alchol ruins peoples lives because its addictive plus it imparess your judgement more than when your high and even so when your really drunk you can move when your way way high you cant move

It provides no cure, only relief. No need to rely on mind altering drugs when they only cover up symptoms.
Would you like to meet drivers on the road smoking it and are loaded, three sheets to the wind?

How about a doctor who says, Hey man, I can't remember how I should treat you for that.

FAU: Maybe you should chief up sometime...possibly go back to grammar school or read a dictionary and learn how to spell STUPID

im tired of seeing idiots commenting when they dont know anything about it themselves
it became illegal because in the 1930s large corporations decided to make up lies about it so they can make more profit. weed has other uses like using 4 times more paper than trees and so on preventing corps from making profit in most cases and u cant patent something that grows because people could grow their own too. prevented corps making 80% more profit
so thanks to bad journalism it became illegal
weed has been used medicinally for thousands of years, there was no reason for it to become illegal

lol dont listen to what people tell u, its all misleading information
you need to do your own research and see for urself

These are some of the comments I have copied from a forum

-pharmaceuticals are known to kill more people than illegal drugs

-marijuana is the number 1 cash crop in the world
it serves as a natural medicine and has many other uses
thats why they prohibited it so big companies can make more profit
thanks to bad journalism

-can also help aids patients, aids diminishes appetite
have them smoke a joint and they regain their appetite counteracting the illness

-no one can die from smoking cannabis and has been no known deaths compared to everything else including alcohol, tobacco, etc..

I myself have asthma and smoking opens up my airways making it easier to breathe with no side effects
when medically legalized in my state I look foward to becoming a patient for prescription marijuana. 12 states have already legalized it along with other countries in the world and more following
my job is to educate people that are not aware of the plants uses

re-legalize!

-I did most of my research through websites, books, magazines, and the news
norml.org
high times magazine
etc..

- theres more to it than just getting high
and I believe legalizing it would make this a better world to live in

-God bless the whole crop!

- and for people that dont smoke, you dont need to smoke it to support it

-all the better reason for the government to legalize..
couple reasons why it should be legalized:
-will be removed from black market and stop empowering gang members
-medical reasons
-would be sold like alcohol, remember alcohol was once prohibited too (in stores away from children, have to be 21+)
-would be a law that you cant drive while intoxicated on weed
-prison population would lower (prisons are overcrowding with nonviolent offenders)
-keep patients from being convicted
-would provide millions of jobs for people
-would make us an independent country (fuel, etc.., debt free america)

people with an addiction (including hard drugs) shouldnt be thrown in jail, they need help
theres more people in jail with mental illnesses than there are in mental institutions

the list goes on

- the War on Drugs is a failure, its a war on its own people. policies need to be changed
we pay billions in taxpayers money to keep the war going and neither side is winning
thats just a waste of our tax money
I wonder what they do with all that money..
those greedy bastards just sell drugs back onto the street, you can even check urself on that
there was a time when there was a cia operation transporting drugs overseas into america
the government also provided Rick Ross with plenty of heroin to go around, course making money from it

the truth must be exposed, theyre dirty work must stop!

-Of course we can do something about it, we all just need to unite
screw the federal government
remember slavery?
if no one stood up im pretty sure it would still be going on
people were tortured, beaten, killed and thrown in jail but that didnt stop them standing up for their rights
eventually slavery was abolished
same with alcohol prohibition
eventually became re-legalized

- its like theres some kind of conspiracy going on
I sense the government is up to no good and trying to control us.
credit cards, money, and now they have chips that can be implanted in skin for uselful reasons but if in the wrong hands well were pretty much fuct
they hiding the truth from us
its dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
they got theyre privacy but we dont. they want to know everything were doing on our leisure time

get up stand up!

- marijuanas not anti-establishment because its illegal, its illegal because its anti-establishment

all facts stated have been double-checked and confirmed
want to learn more?
norml.org
americandrugwar.org
hightimes.com
lets all make this a better place to live in!

weed may be a drug but so is a hydro and is just addictive so if we can't smok weed then why can we get hydro's that is stupid !!!

weed may be a drug but so is a hydro and is just addictive so if we can't smok weed then why can we get hydro's that is stupid !!!