How Is Alcohol Legal But Marijuana Not?

Discussion in 'General' started by Emo Steve, Aug 7, 2007.

  1. Alcohol and marijuana can both be abused. Most would say that a person under the influence of alcohol is more dangerous than someone under weed. How is alcohol legal but marijuana illegal?
     
  2. alcohol WAS illegal, people just bitched about it enough to have it changed back to legal. i think it's kind of the same story with weed, get enough people to bitch about it, and it'll be legal again!
     
  3. Because marijuana is just to perfect. Its illegal because the Govt wanted an excuse to get rid of the illegal aliens and have a reason to rile up the citizens. The textile, oil, and pharmaceutical companies would loose millions if it became legal, or if it wasnt illegal in the first place.
    Alcohol on the other hand, doesnt have as much benefits so it doesnt threaten any other industries. People love their booze and prohibition proved that. There is more profit to be made with alcohol because you can patent recipes for it, but you cant patent a plant.
     
  4. individual strains would be patented if it ever became legal. any artificial altering of species can be IP, just like it is for GM crops.
     
  5. It's illegal because of racism. As simple as that. During the "beat generation" there were alot of black jazz artists that would smoke pot and play music, racists in the government came up with stories that they "negroes" would seduce white women with pot and steal them from the white men...there is more to it but I'm lazy
     
  6. alcohol is legal because of the breathalyzer.
    cops can't prove you're stoned


    case closed
     
  7. its illegal because they wont admit they are wrong and are holding on to the false facts thta they have been holding on to for years, they are too stuborn
     
  8. marijuana is illegal becuase of propaganda
     
  9. why are minorities and women payed less in jobs than white men? it's just the way the world works
     
  10. marijuana is illegal because people get high and dont do anything about it

    people got drunk and faught prohibition because they were drunk and felt like doin somethin
     
  11. In my opinion. It's illegal cause they make to much $ on it. At least with alcohol they get a lot of that $. How would they ever make $ off of bud if it's legal and everyones growing it? You really can't make your own alcohol except beer and moonshine. Beers difficult to make and moonshine is illegal in a lot of states like mine. MJ on the other hand anyone can grow it if you can grow a houseplant. Just like why would the government introduce acid to the street hippies in the 60's? So they can make it illegal, and of course people figured out how to make it, so the gov't makes $ off of it and even puts the 'deadbeats' in jail while they are at it.. :D
     
  12. this is an old debate that's been going on forever... and yet still i do not have an answer for you americans.
     
  13. If marijuana were grown in huge greenhouses, sold in convenience stores like cigarettes are now (20 or 25 joints per pack and also sold in packages with say 10 grams or more which could be for for pipes, bongs and whatnot) and were priced and taxed like cigarettes people really wouldn't have to grow because they could just go to a convenience store and buy a shitload of joints at the very affordable price of about $5.00 for a pack.
    Both the government and companies growing and processing the marijuana would make billions per year which would create thousands of jobs and raise the economy.
    If that happened and industrial hemp was also legalized the economy would surely skyrocket, and the American government would save 10 billion per year because they would not have to needlessly enforce it anymore.

    There would be no downsides if it were completely legalized.
     
  14. Marijuana could be capitalized on big time...

    I'd love to make a career selling legal marijuana:devious:. It's a 5+ billion dollar industry already...think about how huge it would be, if legalized.

    It'd be the new tobacco...
     
  15. Because you touch yourself at night


    But theres a lot of different reasons. It wasnt as popular as booze when everyone was bitching and moaning about prohibition, so it was left illegal when they re-legalized alcohol.

    Racism, as said before... Rich white Republican bastards made up crap about those 'damn negro jazz musicians' seducing their beautiful young white daughters with weed, and all kinds of shit like that.

    Too easy to grow, so the government knows they'll have a hard time making everyone pay taxes on it.

    The list goes on.
     
  16. not too many people make thier own booze... WHICH IS TAXED

    not too many people grow thier own tobacco, WHICH IS TAXED

    but if growing pot was allowed,,, everyone would grow thier own, and the gov. cant tax it

    it all falls down to the allmighty dollar,

    and besides with it being illegal the county ''COFFERS'' make a killing each time they catch someone with just a gram. on them,,,:eek:

    it sucks but it's true,,,,:mad:

     
  17. because alcohol doesn't kill people and marijuana does...oh wait
     
  18. Weed is the biggest cash crop in America.
     
  19. You got it all about right... but it's because cannabis hemp would be so profitable that it's illegal. It would replace, ruin, or revamp some-odd 50,000 corporations and create the largest industry ever known to man... again, as it was for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years.

    But of course that would take the control of the world's money supply out of the financiers of the Federal Reserve and World Bank and put it into the hands of every country on the planet that can grow and produce hemp products... a lot of countries.

    The relegalization of cannabis will be the greatest era in human history.
     

  20. Shit, we need Weed growhouses on the moon. Real Space Weed (patent pending). With the low gravity, imagine how huge the plants would get. We're talking larger than really tall trees here on earth. Ship that back to the stoners of the world, and it could finance space settlement and exploration for centuries to come :D
     

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