This just accured to me....why the hell did they make it illegial?
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This just accured to me....why the hell did they make it illegial?
As far as I know it was cos of the British in Egypt or something related to that...as far as I know..
hm no, well it was made illegal in different countrys for different reasons surely? i heard in the uk it was because they made some pathetic link from cannabis to harder drugs, but thats just what i heard from some random unreliable source in my head.. lol
All the shit about brain damage and psychosis..
I read a while ago that it was to do with World War I, soldiers were just getting high instead of doing their duties, so it was outlawed for that main reason..
I haven't got any other ideas about it, or know for sure so maybe you could look it up on google or something!
Why is Marijuana Illegal
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stori...naIllegal.html
my english teacher is going to love this thanks!!
I am writing a paper on it and it is now 3 years. Some skint facts seem to be on these messages. I would direct you to http://www.jackherer.com and read his stuff online. If you are American it was a conpiracy of bankers, chemical and oil companies that held the government so they just passed a law in the 30's, appointed a son in law to lifetime enforecer and killed their competition.
As to the Brit part, well it was really Spain that brought the first evil drug laws. They were imposed on the Phillipines. It was for opium. The US took the Philipines in the Spanish American war and inherited the laws. They found out opium was imported from Hong Kong and therefore an international problem and did the first big international meeting (called for by a Catholic priest in charge of the law, I think the bastard was from Wisconsin!) in Hong Kong. That is where the Egyptians forced them to add cannabis to the drug agenda. It was competing with tobacco and cotton and had to go. The meeting went on to Zurich and etc. It was there that Anslinger, son in law to Mellon Bank (funders and holders of Dupong, Rockefeller oil and banks, Hearst papers and more, the same guy is Secretary of the Treasury, talk about insider stuff. There is so much more makes me sick.
I still can't believe the world we live in today - it's sometimes so blatant someone is fucking us over and for some reason I can't be bothered to fully explore. How is it that you can die from alcohol and tobacco legally but marijuana is not legal - EVEN where it grows naturally!?!
And I'm sure this has been argued a bazillion times on here and in places across the world but someone WANTS it to be illegal just so they can make a fat profit. Anyone else agree??
It doesn't make sense, the way we approach cannibus (cannibis).
Think of what would happen if we threw all the Dogs in jail.
Or Pigeons.
Or Lithuanian-Americans.
Or Salmon.
Or Pine Trees.
Or Corn stalks.
Or Rosebuds.
Or Cannibus (Cannibis).
Doesn't make sense to ban an entire species from the Earth (or, most countries).
I'm not 100% sure why MJ was made illegal, but I know that the 30's government made a propaganda film known as "reefer madness." If you have seen the film, they claim that MJ leads to insanity, wild sex orgies, among other b.s. shit. So I am guessing, as someone said, they think it leads to physcosis and mental illness.
I think the main reason government keeps it illegal, despite all of the facts and reports about hopw benificial MJ really is, is because they know anyone can grow it, and make profit from it. They don't get tax cuts from peoples private crops. They don't make any money from it, so why should anyone else.
MJ is also widely used as a medication as well. If they were to legalize herb and let people grow it to help them, the government will lose big time money from regular prescription drugs. They lose money, they get a wage cut, now those greedy fuckers can't do that now can they. They'd rather have money than knowing that they can help people without any ill side effects. Then again, that is how most of the world works.
I'm done :D Peace
Or Cannabis, that has to be the best ever lol:D
LOL @ "Dogs in jail"
All smokin' blunts and playin' poker, having riots, biting others.. they live the dream!
Oct-05-2005 16:18
Nochowderforyou
I'm not 100% sure why MJ was made illegal,
Check out that link posted on post #5.
"all mexicans are crazy," lol, that's funny. "we were just trying to get them high senoir, you know, see things how we see them", the mexican said.Quote:
Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
"george washington had fields marijuana" - slater from dazed and confused
that is some insider shit, you've done your research. be sure to email a finished copy of your story. [email protected]Quote:
Originally Posted by ArtRollins
I think Art may post it, here. :confused:
it's just too good to be legal, I mean what cant you make with it besides food(oh I forgot hemp seeds are the most nutritional food in the world)clothes,gasoline,oil,rope,sails,paper pulp,you could produce fibre board much stronger then any wood could ever be,plastic hemp panels are 10 times stronger than steel. it would compete with so many established patented industries and nobody would ever be able to patent hemp a plant. the govt. just used the getting high shit as an excuse and whats stupider then that is that the variety of hemp that you make all these things with has virtually no thc at all you could smoke a pound and nothing at all will happen. I mean they never banned all the other kinds of poppy flowers just because 1 variety happens to be a good pain killer. but the people took it hook,line and sinker, which is unbelievable because at the time the whole countrys economy virtually revolved around it in farming. basically millionaires developed patented ways of making everything hemp produced only they now owned the rights. providing a monopoly for a few select rich while the rest of the country suffered in the great depression.
indeed@beachguy
its all about money...the goverment wants its cut...
It first got banned so all of the politicians could keep it for themselves and smoke it. Just look at our current state of governmental affairs, they HAVE TO BE stoned....
Very interesting
First of all, it would have cut into too many big businesses. Booze, fibers, timber, medicines, whole lot of big bu$ine$$e$. Second, the people who used it were mostly minorities. Third, it is basically undetectable without a lab test. Until the cops get a pot sobriety test that works in the field (like a breathalizer) they can't risk high drivers (no matter that pot smoking drivers have a good record of staying out of accidents). Fourth, pot's too easy. The government would have a tough time getting their cut (taxes). Anyone able to keep a plant watered in their back yard can grow pot. No way they could find them all to tax. Lastly, is the "sin factor". You can't have fun without "paying for it"! Sex= VD, Aids and pregnancy. Booze= hangovers, cirrosis of the liver and the "shakes". Meth= meth mouth, addiction, rapid aging. Driving fast= tickets, accidents and using up gas at a high rate. All "fun" things have to be "paid" for with the risk of bad consequences. Pot is the exception, no hangover, no addiction, in fact, it's good for a lot of medical conditions and it's FUN. Our Puritan mindset government just can't allow us to have "free fun". So of course, we have to have it illegal and a jailable offense. Fun without bad consequences, is unthinkable. :eek:
Wow, I never knew everything that made marijuana illegal was just because of a few mens greed and lies.
i dont think art will post a book he has spent 3 years writing
it drives me crazy when people say shit like "how can u ban nature man!" or "god put the plant on the earth, how can it be illegal!".
What bullshit. If the plant WAS dangerous, or had a terrible effect on social order, or whatever, then it SHOULD be banned, nature, godly or whatever.
The thing is, cannabis isnt any of these things, but hey, at least its easier to get away with than all the other harder drugs.
It wouldnt be a very far removed world from this one where cannabis is so illegal that there isnt any ANYWHERE, now THAT would be SHIT!!!!
Prescription drugs should be made illegal. Even WITH a prescription. Properly prescribed prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA.
Cannabis ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs
that would never happen because the government owns the drug companies. that's also why weed is still criminalized, because they don't own the weed farms, and ppl would grow their own, thus losing money for the government. no business would do anything if they lose money.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGB1013
It posted porn. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by smokingskeleton
brits and the chinese, started it for U>S> brits were trading cheap indian opium for silk and tea, the americans wanted chinese trade so they started an international opium commission 1901, By helping them with their notorious opium problem, we thought we could impress upon them our moral concerns. the first meeting of this group was january 1909, in shanghai, 3 u.s. delegates went, 1 a protestant minister, second was some ambassador, third was dr hamilton wright, the man responsible for international narcotics laws as we now know them, source drug crazy by mike grey
Burn the Witches!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm Crow
somebody someone i dont think art will post a book he has spent 3 years writing
Yeah, you're probably right. Let's just ask him to submit a rough draft, 10000 words, or more.
Make proscription drugs illegal!!! are you ****ing insane? i dont know anything about leading causes of death but how about the number of LIVES SAVED and the number of people with dreadful afflictions whose lives are made liveable only by the grace of modern medicine.
Next time you take a paracetamol or whatever, think about how silly you sounded, and stop sounding off just cos youve got to be a little discrete with your joints....
but what about things like Zoloft that made my mom's anxiety even worse and lead to her getting diabetes, or the millions of other pain killers and anti-depressants that are abused by the majority of our country.Quote:
Originally Posted by misty116
It's just like Tomato, Tomahdo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue
Good point, misty116. But I think whoever said it didn't mean it quite as literally as you think.
Perhaps they simply meant that, if health risk is the deciding factor in whether or not a substance should be legal (as many Anti-drug campaigners seem to think) then there should be a ban on many prescription drugs aswell as marijuana. If this were the only criteria for deciding the legality of a drug then marijuana would be legal and most prescription substances would be banned. This highlights out the hypocrisy in the current regulation of drugs, both legal and illegal, and the biased fashion in which many drugs are treated. :)
There are some new medicines out now. They all have characteristics of Marijuana. I mean, you're not wrong, modern medicine is beyond comprehension, but many prescription medicines would be obsolete, if we legalized Marijuana.Quote:
Originally Posted by misty116
I'm certain that it does more than what the government currently believes (which, by the way, can't be anything other than wonder-at-kannibis) and they should spend more money on "pot-testing" than missile testing.
But, right now, because of some nasty people, Our Nation has to spend money on Defense-testing.
Myantidrug:
I am very sorry about your mother anti, but i am hopeful that her case is the exeption rather than the rule. It may be the case that for someone else, perhaps with another condition, Zoloft is a total cure.
One would hope that it is only a small proportion of companies, people, or whatever that are motivaated by greed.
Ghosttoker:
i am aware that possibly, the person may have meant what you say, but then he should have typed that. I was merely opposing what appears to be a knee-jerk over-the-top opinion.
Beachguy:
the thing is, testing pot does take place, this is where such legendary strains as G-13 come from, it just costs about the same for a whole years research as it does for say, the ammunition dropped in a very short amount of time around the world.
I feel a bit like i am opposing every one here!! im sorry if that is bad, but it is good to get your opinions out and about....
Banning something never ever worked in the history of history - what thing which has been banned has actually been 100% enforced - nothing.
So why fuck about with all this criminalisation of everyone who wants to smoke a spliff - and if we can smoke tobacco then we can smoke marijuana. Yes it really is a few greedy/stupid/domineering bastards who have locked up the weed and made the people into sheep.
The police just do what they're told, your parents, families, all those people who think you are doing something bad have been brainwashed. But maybe this is life - we just gotta somehow fit in and if you ain't at the top you just have to follow the rest.
I think they may decriminalise it in the future but could you imagine going into work stoned? Yeh sure you might be in a chilled out state, ready to sit down and do what you have to but your boss will still think you've done something wrong.
Let's just start our own fuckin country!!
One would hope that it is only a small proportion of companies, people, or whatever that are motivaated by greed.
sorry misty but this is a consumer based society, greed is the motivation
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Originally Posted by misty116
I know that testing goes on. We should further it.
zoloft is not a total cure. it's an anti-depressant which is never a cure. besides, those effects have effected a large percentage of it's usersQuote:
Originally Posted by misty116