Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, doctors and law enforcement to control cannabis use.
The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful.
This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.
Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect.
There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.)
That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.
Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it鈥檚 a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition, dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it 鈥?a war on drugs鈥?(Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)
America loves a war even if it is on it鈥檚 own people.
One of several reason they don鈥檛 legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry,
the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don鈥檛 drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.
The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it鈥檚 possible to get two harvest in one season.
However people don鈥檛 know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country鈥檚 like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.
This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.
If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.
The petroleum industry would also be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it鈥檚 land for hemp production we could create enough bio fuel to supply an area the size of Canada.
Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells).
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)
Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Also check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at
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No Okay, I have ADHD so I couldn't read through the whole thing, but I think I agree with what you're trying to say. I think marijuana should be legalized and I don't even use it. I just think that the government could be benefiting from taxing it and it would be safer because it would have to meet standards in order to be sold. I also think that marijuana is less addictive than things like alcohol and pain pills. I used to smoke marijuana (when I was in high school) like 4 times a day and when I quit, I didn't have any withdrawals or anything. That's not true with alcohol or other drugs, including prescription ones. So I just don't understand why marijuana is so taboo? I understand what you are saying and you have some truths and a good Idea. I have epilepsy and have been forced to take synthetic drugs in order to keep the seizures under control. However, I am discriminated against by society and my family because of the effects of the medication that pharmacy would prefer me to take. I definately do not agree with legalizing drugs, and I also think that tobacco should be prohibited. Drugs are for those that can't deal with reality. Drug using is a <cop> out. Just my thought. You have really done your home work on this one.
Our country has literally "gone to pot" since drugs came into our culture full force in the 1960's.
Drugs have caused lives to be shattered and children to be abused.
Stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power may be the driving forces behind drugs but to legalize more drugs would cause the down fall of an already shaky nation. Sounds like you want the drugs legalized to make your job easier.
We have enough problems with druggies in America. if it was legal, can you imagine the chaos?
there are to many impaired drivers on the road, now.
would you want a surgeon who was high opening your chest?
would you want a plumber who was high installing your plumbing?
would you want a judge who was high deciding your fate?
would you want a cook who was high preparing your meals.
would you want a day care worker who was high taking care of your children?
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