Why is pot illegal? Genuinely, what is the logical thought process behind governments keeping a substance proven less harmful than alcohol illegal when they could reap millions in free tax revenue?
Why is pot illegal?
Why is pot illegal? Genuinely, what is the logical thought process behind governments keeping a substance proven less harmful than alcohol illegal when they could reap millions in free tax revenue?
connected to schizo, easy
not illegal where I am brother I get to partake in the comfort of my own home or the public if I please. Godspeed to you though, or you know you could just move out of whatever shit hole you live in state or country you live in.
It will be harder to exploit people if the masses give up alcohol. Billions of dollars in alcohol sales, marketing, hospital bills, police (DUIs), towing services, bars, clubs, breweries, pizza parlors, restaurants, etc. The system needs alcoholics to exploit for revenue at the expense of people's health, happiness, and lives
Simple solution: don't drink. I never understood why people NEED alcohol. Stupid monkey see, monkey do neurotypical pieces of garbage.
>grow plant in home
>all tax income negated
Noooo, not like that!
making your own alcohol is just easy and maybe cheaper depending on what equipment you use for growing. Seriously all you need is some yeast juice and a ballon to do it yourself. The argument that too many people will just grow it themselves just seems stupid when most people cant even keep a house plant alive.
I don't know about all that, there are countless types of spirits out there. Not just hard liquor, beer and wine, but also all kinds of liqueurs and stuff like that.
But I don't disagree, I think there would still be a giant market for weed, even if everyone grew their own.
>I don't know about all that, there are countless types of spirits out there.
I know that I'm just saying the barrier to entry for making alcohol is probably lower than growing weed.
There was a product that was famous during prohibition that was just a cube of concentrated juice that housewives would leave it out and it would turn alcoholic. It was extremely popular during prohibition but went bankrupt after alcohol was legal again. Anyway, the point of this story is that if people have no options they will still find workarounds and settle for the cheap and low-quality shit if it's illegal the same applies to weed.
Exactly. Government is wishing they could ban alcohol too but the chemical substance is too easy to produce and also it has too many practial uses that could be used as a loophole to acquire it in copious amounts (which would be a lot more dangerous for dumb people to consume it as is)
Pot was heavily restricted in response to the student and hippie movements of the 60/70s. Obviously they can't arrest you for protesting but they can heavily and unnecessarily restrict the substance which is popular among those groups
>less harmful means it is good
I'm all for weed, but this is a shitty argument. It's along the same lines as
>it's natural
Yeah, so is poison hemlock, but it flat out kills you.
Also, smoking it is dumb as fuck. People should be dosing it either via valing or by edibles. Infact, smoking anything is idiotic as fuck and why tobacco should be illegal.
>muh tax
If anything, we need less taxes, not more. We literally went to war with the British over a 2% tax and to tell the monarchy to fuck off.
Retard antimexican campaign a century ago
>Why is pot illegal?
It's pretty well documented.
Originally because hemp markets threatened the paper/textile business.
Then later it was associated with the negro (jazz cigarettes) and drug laws were used to abuse blacks.
A little later it was associated with hispanics (mari-"juana") and drug laws were used to abuse immigrants.
Much later it was associated with the anti-war flower power movement (whites had always been the main consumers of cannabis since America was founded) and laws were used to abuse Korea/Vietnam protestors.
Okay blah blah blah I've read a US history textbook before. Allow me to rephrase the question then: why is pot STILL illegal? Are we as Americans so retarded that reports of "marijuana turned me into a bat and I flew around the room" and "marijuana makes naggers rape white women" from a century ago still influencing our policy? If more than 50% of Americans support federal legalization then why is it still illegal? Really feels like our elected representatives represent jack diddly squat and just sit around with their thumbs up their asses on Capital Hill all day.
>Really feels like our elected representatives represent jack diddly squat and just sit around with their thumbs up their asses on Capital Hill all day.
That is the real reason, yes.
>Really feels like our elected representatives represent jack diddly squat and just sit around with their thumbs up their asses on Capital Hill all day.
You just figured this out? Protip: it has been this way since the 1850's.
Boomers are still the majority voting bloc. If they don't like something, it's illegal. They're too old to change, plus they're spiteful. If young generations want it and enjoy it, then they go out of their way to stop it. Whatever the Greatest Generation did wrong to make those horrible useless fucks, we need to make sure a generation that rotten is never created again. They more or less ruined the planet and stripped it of its resources for short term profits.
ITT: college students living in their bubbles
All substance who alter the mind should be banned. Alcohol, caffeine, psylocibin, nicotine, industrial sugar, psychological ""medication"", cannabis, LSD, others drugs, etc
We should strive to achieve a total clarity of mind free of any mind altering substances
Your mind is the result of various substances.
Produced by my body, yes. Not consumed for recreational or so-called "spiritual" purposes
Makes little difference. The best moments in life are not ones of clarity, even when sober. Joy makes the mind unclear and vulnerable.
>The best moments in life are not ones of clarity
Nope
>Joy makes the mind unclear and vulnerable
I agree
Yet life cannot reproduce without joy, despite what fascists might think. Whether they enslave themselves or others makes little difference.
That's not enslavement, but liberation of mind
You sound like a hippie
It's not unusual for attributes to disguise themselves as their opposites. Hatred as live, enslavement as liberation and so on.
Except that this time it's real. The liberation of the mind requires the cessation of external mind-altering substances, as well as the most perfect control of one's emotions to achieve mental clarity. I understand that hippies and junkies refuse to accept this reality because they are influenced by these substances, but don't be afraid, it's for your own good
Meaning is fundamentally material. It's why exercise helps against depression. Your clarity is a meme. Fear disguised as understanding.
>the most joyous moments lack clarity
>no
>joy makes things lack clarity
>yes
What did he mean by this
You are not human
Originally
I wish coca leaves were legal. I don't even want to turn it into cocaine. The real Coca-Cola must've been awesome.
Its legal in columbia and IIRC Peru so theres your next vacation trip
>my nerdy white ass hanging out with south americans handling a precursor to coke
i'm not a druggie or an alcoholic, never have and never will, but yeah, i always wondered why weed is illegal but alcohol isn't. you hear all the time of people dying from alcohol, whether it's poisoning or drunk driving. it destroys your liver too. my parents smoke weed and all that happens to them is that they get a bit giddy
it's just another of society's retardations i guess.
it annoys me that alcohol is not even categorized as a drug. it's the ultimate brainwashing. and that alcohol use is so common. let's start shaming alcohol drinkers as being what they really are: more hardcore drug junkies than weed smokers.
It's not illegal. Hasn't the entire country legalized it yet?
>Hasn't the entire country legalized it yet?
>the country
do you know where you are you retarded homosexual? this isn't a country
Oh please, if you aren't American, you do not matter. Cry me a river Britbong and then visit a dentist.
>npc is living stereotype
lmao
>thinks there are two options, either one is american or british
lmao
There is no logic behind that.
The correlation between illegality of a drug and its actuall measurable harm potential is 0.25 or 0.26 depending on the study.
"Drugs without the hot air" from David Nutt is a good book about the topic if you are really interested.
A lot of it is the Pharma companies not being able to make money off the weed and at the same time the governments making money off "fighting" the weed growers. It's all fucked from everyone's real moral perspective and the lack of change on the issue shows the lack of genuine legitimately of the government.
it's more harmful to society than alcohol