Why is pot *really* illegal?

5  2017-09-02 by Iamgoingtooffendyou

28 comments

Would it still be considered a competitor to nylon or other materials?

Hemp is actually starting to make a comeback. There are a lot of products that come from the plant. But I do not have an answer to that specific question.

Yes I am.

In my opinion it goes beyond racial lines and the Southern Strategy utilized by Nixon. Tom Bonacci..a victim of the Franklin Scandal, said that the only drug never present at the parties for the kids was Weed. It wakes people up. It makes them question. TPTB can absolutely NOT have everyone going home, smoke a blunt, and talk to their friends and family about how the government is corrupt, why the world is the way it is, and why we can't change it. That's ultimately, to me, why Pot is illegal. It opens the mind, and it expands peoples horizons, especially when consumed in groups and when discussion is focused on politics, human society, and the world in general.

I definitely agree with that. I'm sure hemp rope wasn't the only reason.

...was Weed. It wakes people up.

In ways that alcohol doesn't?

It's cleaner than Alcohol. Some people, when drunk, become angry. People get stoned and at worst get anxiety. No one smokes a blunt and goes "I WANNA KICK SOMEONES ASS, YEAH!". By my observations of myself and others, alcohol can "wake one up" in a very cloudy way, and it rather inhibits critical thought. Weed makes people think in a different way about things, without debilitating them to the point of stupor. Maybe you get couch locked, but in 20 minutes you'll be fine, and your mind is still going, it just might be focusing on other things :)

Not even close to similar effects...

I find they both help me with my social anxiety and stress but I don't have a lot of recent experience with alcohol since it seems to irritates my stomach.

Psychedelics might do that a bit more than pot though

Oh I completely agree. But Pot is more accessible, and less "hard". You should absolutely not just dive into psychedelics, and they ought to be used sparingly. A good psychedelic experience requires good company, a calm setting, and a clear mind going in to the experience. You need to work up to psychedelics, not start there. Pot is a gentle mistress :)

Right on the money.

It also competes with the CIA's drug dealing.

because the hemp plant is a low maintenance weed that that is a better alternative to plastic, and cultivation is frequent.

Commerce and control, like everything. You're even a commercial instrument.

You're even a commercial instrument.

Do you have any good links on this?

Lots of theories, no one truly knows. But, look into your birth certificate, act of 1871 and 1913. Look into international law, maritime/admiralty, and UCC. Im preoccupied, right now, but I'll get you some direct links later. Those keywords should get you started.

Well to a large extent the people are the product for most forms of content, anything sponsored by advertisers at the very least.

Part of it is throwback puritanical christian thought. We mustn't allow people to be happy. Laughing and enjoying yourself is only allowed when reading the bible. It was also a convenient way to fill up the prison system. Also if you've ever seen "Reefer Madness", it was automatically associated with degeneracy, even though it's a plant that god created.

very simply "becoz business"

the main Italian mafia made a Lot of money 'transporting' alcohol into the US ... and they got pissed off about this 'ending prohibition' business, which would cost them Big time in lost profits ... which was 'not ok Senator"

So, for the sake of keeping the peace and an 'open relationship' with the mafia, they made pot illegal

so the mafia could still use all there 'smuggling routes' and everybody made money again ... and everyone was happy

except the stoners

later these people realized they could use 'illegal drugs' to benefit them greatly and so came Air America and later Ollie North ... by which time 'those involved' in this high level racket, the 'levels of skullfuckery' they are prepared to 'support' is FUBAR!

Mexico is a good example of this mad skullfuckery gone feral! The US needs to Legalize drugs to begin stopping these people and their unbounded craziness

The pots is a gateway drug that kills people

To make industrial hemp illegal. You can make paper, fuel, food from hemp, more rapidily, cost effective and renewable than traditional sources.

You can make paper, fuel, fiber, food from hemp, more rapidily, cost effective and renewable than traditional sources.

Is this true then, today, or both?

Because opiates are a $24B a year industry.

Are opiates that profitable per unit when bought legally? My experience is that they are fairly cheap when I get them from a pharmacy.

The 24B dollar figure is from 300 million opiate prescriptions. Not sure how illegal trade would compare.