Why Is Marijuana Illegal in the US?

Haha i too was curious about this subject. It actually started in the thirties when "Reefer Madness" was created, which im sure your familiar with. In the movie they said that people who smoke marijuana are mentally insane, cereal killers, dangerous, etc. This movie actually had a significant impact on the peoples view on our beloved plant.

 

But I'm pretty sure that only started because the middle/upper class kids were beginning to smoke. People would walk by their house and see some kid tripping out, it scared them because they didn't understand it, and deemed that marijuana use leads to insanity.

At least that is my understanding of history, I might be wrong. I'm kinda high so my imagination is running a little rampant.

 

In the sense that one could kill a box of cereal really high, this just happens to be true.

Serial

 

Wasn't it some Hearst mother fucker who was selfish and had scare tactics propoganda to shut down the hemp industry.

He was just jealous because hemp > trees when it comes to making paper

 

Most of them already know this, and have known it for years.. just like the government has also known full well, for over four decades, that cannabis not only has preventative qualities, but also curative properties, when it comes to cancer and other terminal illnesses.


The 'government' is comprised of a group of people.. some who know for a fact, and have known for years that cannabis is not only virtually harmless, but beneficial.... but those people, also happen to have a financial stake in cannabis remaining illegal. Be those pharmaceutical investments, or prisons etc.

And then there are those who are still actually blind to the fact that it's virtually harmless, particularly when compared to several legal substances such as caffeine, tobacco, and alcohol. They think we're all junkies.. they see a person suffering with anything from a severe case of the flu, to heavy 'unmentionable' use, and immediately believe that person could be 'whacked out' on the devils weed... and they honestly believe it.
Maybe their grandson had an actual hard drug problem, but repeatedly said "it's only weed, it's only weed!".... how many times have we seen that, in our own lives: someone abusing much harder substances, getting into tons of trouble, and trying to cover it up with cannabis, pretty much because they know how tame it is.

Or maybe the believers have just heard the propaganda repeated for so long, and it's so ingrained in their being, that they think it *must* be true.


So you have a large bunch of them making FAR too much money off prohibition, to have any desire whatsoever to change the laws... and then you have another (very skittish) portion of the establishment, with wool over their eyes, who actually believe in the propaganda.

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Those folks with investments in prisons, enjoy having quiet, non-violent, non-drugged-out inmates to produce their, 'Made in USA', products.. versus dangerous criminals, without a care for human life, who may not produce such quality work.

Read in the link below, and see just how... 'quaint', they make it all sound.


https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/workampr.pdf


They are just trying to make prison more cost-effective, they said. They're trying to help prisoners feel more productive and socially accepted, they promised. It's only for the benefit of a happy, healthy society, they assured us.
It was such a pleasant way, to trick the majority of the population (who largely felt they'd never be a part of such a system, and who also assumed it wouldn't effect employment availability), into allowing prisons and prisoners, to become valuable business commodities.




On to the pharmaceutical, health industry....

Do you have any idea how much money there is to be made, by not-curing illnesses?

If you cure someone.... bang! Now you no longer have that person as a patient, to sustain for years on an expensive cocktail, of man-made chemicals and treatments.

That puts a number of ridiculously wealthy, and very influential people out in the cold, and a number of pharmaceutical companies, to boot.


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Pot Shrinks Tumors, Government Knew in ’74​

Raymond Cushing, AlterNet
Originally posted May 31, 2000​

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.
Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29.


The ominous part is that this isn’t the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.


The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book,“The Emperor Wears No Clothes“. In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out — unsuccessfully — to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the “high.”


The Madrid researchers reported in the March issue of “Nature Medicine” that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2 a synthetic compound similar to THC.


“All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma (brain cancer) cell inoculation … Cannabinoid (THC)-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats. THC administration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18. Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats, and survived up to 19-35 days. Moreover, the tumor was completely eradicated in three of the treated rats.” The rats treated with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results." http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/marijuana-cures-cancer-us-government-has-known-since-1974/










To sum up the last above-mentioned study, they injected the brains of 45 rats, with cancer cells.



ALL untreated rats died, before day 18, after their cancer growth was confirmed.




However, those of the rats treated with both synthetic, and natural cannabinoids, many lived over TWICE as long while their tumors continuously shrank..... and three of those rats treated with REAL cannabis-produced cannabinoids, survived while receiving treatment, for long enough, to be fully cured.




It's worth mentioning that, while the amounts they were treated with seem to be either undocumented, or not widely-publicly-available, from what I've been told their cannabinoid treatment was not even provided in very high concentration..... not nearly the 'equivalent' of the amount Rick Simpson recommends for a human being, in a given period of time, but somewhere between that, and the average tokers intake...



And even so, their reduced lifespans were in many cases doubled compared to those rats who did not receive treatment, and three of the treated rats were cured.






That's like taking several cancer patients... including maybe a cousin, a brother, or a dear Aunt or Uncle..... and instead of surviving for instance, for only two more years, while their tumors continue to grow, causing them increased pain and suffering.... instead of two years of rapid deterioration, with only low doses of cannabinoids, they could be granted three, to four years of slightly, to even greatly increased comfort, with a chance to be ultimately cured. With higher doses, the odds of survival increase dramatically.





But if with higher doses, Auntie makes huge improvements and is cured in only a matter of months.... both she, and her insurance company, wouldn't be handing over nearly as much money to the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, for treatments and chemicals to sustain her condition, over the course of the rest of her life.




Anyway, as much as I'd like to go on and elaborate, this post is probably long enough ....most people contributing to the thread have already hit the rest of the nails on the head (didn't mean to rhyme there ).

 

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nixon basically started the war on drugs, reclassifying marijuana as a class ? drug. Up with heroin and meth[/quote]

So? It was made illegal in the 30's.

The war on drugs is just a name

 

Come on guys. Haven't you ever seen the opening scene of "Pineapple Express"?

Totally what happened.

Summarize what really happened. Rich people were getting scared because they didn't know anything but that was making people behave oddly or it was cutting their profits (lumber), they throw their money at the government, and the government says sure. They sign on for some propaganda movies, and the entire country is terrified of "reefer madness". World war 2 comes around and everyone kinda forgets about weed until the late 50's and early 60's. The Civil Rights Movement had started in the 50s. Middle class kids start smoking weed from all the ethnic minorities. Racism was blatant back then, if the minorities smoked it, they'd be damn sure that their kids aren't doing it either. Again people got scared, Reagan decided it was a good time to disassociate himself with drug use (he was a frequent user) so he starts the campaign everyone is talking about. 40 years later, we're just now starting to understand cannabis for what it really is.

 

I believe Cannabis is illegal because it makes people think, and the government doesn't want people who think and question. They just want dumb, mindless workers.

Also, Cannabis is the nature's most effective medicine and if people were made aware of the truth and stopped being ignorant, it would cure/treat so many illnesses and conditions that Pharmaceutical companies would lose money.

 

IMO MJ has a big problem. It has very rich lobbiests against. Big pharma, Big Chemical and Big Oil. One day prohibition will end and is already on the way. The masses are finally starting to see through the smoke screen and eventually governments will have to follow.

 

Because capitalism doesn't work if the lower class is happy with what they have.

 

Some long ass answers in this thread haha

 

These things mixed together is the same thing I said page 1.

I honestly believe this is a major probability as well as the hemp dissuasion.

 

I think its funny too that this nations constitution is actually written on hemp paper.... It will be legal one day, when enough people finally are able to see through the bullshit that the government and big companies are making up about it and feeding the American people. Alot of people will always trust the governments word and thats exactly what they want, to control us and control what they think is right for us even though they have it terribly backwards by allowing the legalization of alcohol and tobacco. The fact that its a medicine would also like many already stated above put alot of major pharmacy business's and hospitals out of money. Money is honestly probably one of the biggest reasons why its still illegal. Plain and simple the government is just making too much money right now with it being illegal, and the fact that we have to now borrow money from foreign countries because of our stupid ass decisions with war and other CONSPIRACIES just digs us in the prohibition hole even deeper. Especially if we cant get a good freedom activist in the white house (RON PAUL!!!!). Its sad to watch how fox news will actually censor Mr. Paul because they are so scared about him getting into office and breaking this nonsense cycle.

 

Your answer is Harry J Anslinger. Google him.

 

Ron Paul 2012, liberty!

 

because BIG POISON PHARMA wants it illegal.

 

Because the 1% says it is to be so it is
It is always about money
Think of all the shit that would make the world better or even help one person if it were another way
And that will never be because of money
People+money =power we all know this

 

Which costs us $1,716.77 every second. More expensive than Chinese Democracy.

 

Because the old school honkies are still alive believing that marijuana is harmful like they were born and raised. The new school we just waking up and knowing the facts of this wonderful plant.
Oh yea. And this wonderful plant treats over 88 medical problems, that ring said the pharmaceutical companies are trying there best to make I a contraband.