The History of Marijuana: Why it was Outlawed

Marijuana was outlawed in 1937, to mostly a religious outpouring.

"Smoking marijuana might cause you to fall under the influence of listening to jazz! I believe that it was even said on the floor of Congress that marijuana had to be banned because smoking it might make a black man look at a white woman twice. And let's not forget that U.S. Treasury Department funded documentary film, called, "Reefer Madness!" So marijuana was outlawed as devil weed in 1937."
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Why would the government outlaw a drug that kills... ZERO people? Because it's moral? Because it's right? Because to control the population why legalize something that won't put pending death on people? Why not, in the same thought process, have cigarettes and alcohol which kill thousands of people every year?

Besides, a man on Jack Daniels' will think about killing you, and a split second later may actually TRY to kill you. It only takings a little bit to change the inhibitions of a completely drunk person. On the other hand a person on marijuana, even if they think about killing you, will most likely only use the energy to get off the couch for a hamburger.

What's the difference here? Marijuana is probably the only drug that you can turn your back to, and not fear getting stabbed or shot. Crack? Cocaine? Alcohol? Speed? You can almost expect an attack if someone is angry at you under the influence of one of these drugs. Cigarettes? You can EXPECT to have to become addicted to the nicotine, and keep choking down the various chemicals that are in them.

On that point, marijuana is only slightly, mentally addictive. So if you smoke it everyday, and stop, you may feel a little in the dumps for a few days, but things will get back to normal very quickly. There are no physical withdrawls to pot, unless you want to call 'moving around more' a withdrawl.

Jim Stillman wrote in this article :

"The basic Federal statute regulating cannabis is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, which describes drugs as being under one of five classes or schedules. Cannabis is considered a "Schedule I" substance, one that has a high potential for abuse, no accredited medical use, and a lack of accepted safety. (One may, and many have, questioned that description of cannabis, but that's where the law is now.)

In United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, decided in 2001, the Supreme Court held that "medical necessity" was not a defense to a prosecution for the producing and distribution of cannabis to ill persons. The Court said that Congress had made cannabis a Schedule I drug and that was that!"

So what is so bad about marijuana? It won't kill you. Why is it a Schedule I drug? It may increase your waist size, but with a country full of overweight people it may show you just how many... May 'recreationally' use this product.