I understood his point except when you actually do compare marijuana to apple sauce, common sense can easily say, well, it's just apple sauce. It's food. And marijuana, whether you think it should be legalized or not, is obviously nowhere close to applesauce even if you were addicted to applesauce.
Then what's the difference between marijuana and tobacco?
Ah, very good. There are fewer differences between tobacco and marijuana than there are between applesauce and marijuana. So arguing that tobacco is addicting and therefore could be taken away is much less a logical fallacy than debating applesauce addiction.
If tobacco is legal, even though it's addicting and kills more people than marijuana ever will, then why is marijuana illegal?
I don't think anyone here has actually used marijuana to help write a paper, it helps loads. Marijuana actually helped me remember some big words, then I chuckled a bit, then I kept typing.
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I do not wish to get into a legalizing marijuana debate here. But it is illegal in this country largely for political and economical reasons, not because anyone that it was really that bad for you. Look it up somewhere else.
also remember that tobacco has a social acceptance for it for historcial reasons... the function of law is to avoid social caos, if society belives in general that marijuana is bad then law will never aprove it... besides law is always (thankfully) one step behind social progress so it would might cause very bad consecuences to legalize marijuana before society accept it...
Marijuana is not illegal due to economic reasons. It is economically disadvatageous to have it illegal.
And there are more in common between Marijuana and Apple Sauce then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Hell, there's more in common between Marijuana and Water then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Water is more deadly then Marijuana by itself.
Marijuana is not illegal due to economic reasons. It is economically disadvatageous to have it illegal.
Um, yes, it is. Just not solely due to economic reasons. They kept it illegal at a time when the industry wanted to use trees for paper instead of hemp. The timber industry had a more powerful lobby and was able to eliminate the competition that hemp posed to timber. Thus, economic and political reasons? Plus, marijuana was also a political issue when Mexicans began migrating to the U.S. in increased numbers and politicians were looking to regulate it more and they did so by linking their immigration to marijuana importing, making marijuana that much more politically unpopular to legalize. They did the same thing with the Chinese and opium.
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And there are more in common between Marijuana and Apple Sauce then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Hell, there's more in common between Marijuana and Water then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Water is more deadly then Marijuana by itself.
Please stop being silly about this. The point is moot anyway because we know that marijuana is not illegal because too many people feel it poses a threat to your health because it is addicting. If the point was not moot, I'd insist that either way, both tobacco and marijuana are plants that are smoked and are addictive. But I won't insist on that because the point is moot.
Either way, the point is not moot. If it was, then Alcohol would also be illegal. Marijuana is illegal because A) it's a good scape goat and its commonly used against Cubans. More often then not A rather then B, as it's one of the best scape goats around. There is zero economical reason for it to be illegal, as it would stimulate the economy if it were legal. Any idea that it's illegal for economical reason is, how you say, silly.
/Back on topic: I think I have an addiction to chicken. o.O Can you be addicted to chicken? <.<
Either way, the point is not moot. If it was, then Alcohol would also be illegal. Marijuana is illegal because A) it's a good scape goat and its commonly used against Cubans. More often then not A rather then B, as it's one of the best scape goats around. There is zero economical reason for it to be illegal, as it would stimulate the economy if it were legal. Any idea that it's illegal for economical reason is, how you say, silly.
Unreal. When it first became illegal, it was for economic reasons because like I said, the timber industry was more powerful than the hemp industry and using trees to make timber would be more profitable than hemp.
And I understand the point about it now being economically disadvantageous. But I wasn't say that now it remains illegal due to economic reasons, I was saying initially it was an economic issue because the timber industry was just too big to fail at the time, or even to not succeed to the point that it did. It remains illegal now due to political reasons (and perhaps due to some cultural ones too), and not economic ones. So don't think just because I said at one point the initial logic behind it was one reason and therefore that remains the same reason because I wasn't saying that.
And if you insist the point is not moot, perhaps you could just remind me what your point was? Because I thought the argument was being made that if something is harmful because it is addicting, then it shouldn't it be illegal? And all I was stressing was that marijuana was never illegal because too many people that it was hazardous to your health.
And the only chicken one could be addicted to is fried chicken.
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If tobacco is legal, even though it's addicting and kills more people than marijuana ever will, then why is marijuana illegal?
I don't think anyone here has actually used marijuana to help write a paper, it helps loads. Marijuana actually helped me remember some big words, then I chuckled a bit, then I kept typing.
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And there are more in common between Marijuana and Apple Sauce then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Hell, there's more in common between Marijuana and Water then there is with Marijuana and Tobacco. Water is more deadly then Marijuana by itself.
Please stop being silly about this. The point is moot anyway because we know that marijuana is not illegal because too many people feel it poses a threat to your health because it is addicting. If the point was not moot, I'd insist that either way, both tobacco and marijuana are plants that are smoked and are addictive. But I won't insist on that because the point is moot.
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Either way, the point is not moot. If it was, then Alcohol would also be illegal. Marijuana is illegal because A) it's a good scape goat and its commonly used against Cubans. More often then not A rather then B, as it's one of the best scape goats around. There is zero economical reason for it to be illegal, as it would stimulate the economy if it were legal. Any idea that it's illegal for economical reason is, how you say, silly.
/Back on topic: I think I have an addiction to chicken. o.O Can you be addicted to chicken? <.<
Quite so...
Chicken fried? o.O
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Chicken really is the best food in the world. <3
Honestly...I kinda have an addictive personality...
Unreal. When it first became illegal, it was for economic reasons because like I said, the timber industry was more powerful than the hemp industry and using trees to make timber would be more profitable than hemp.
And I understand the point about it now being economically disadvantageous. But I wasn't say that now it remains illegal due to economic reasons, I was saying initially it was an economic issue because the timber industry was just too big to fail at the time, or even to not succeed to the point that it did. It remains illegal now due to political reasons (and perhaps due to some cultural ones too), and not economic ones. So don't think just because I said at one point the initial logic behind it was one reason and therefore that remains the same reason because I wasn't saying that.
And if you insist the point is not moot, perhaps you could just remind me what your point was? Because I thought the argument was being made that if something is harmful because it is addicting, then it shouldn't it be illegal? And all I was stressing was that marijuana was never illegal because too many people that it was hazardous to your health.
And the only chicken one could be addicted to is fried chicken.
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That made me laugh a lot. Seriously.
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FOr you people void of a sense of humor, that's me being sarcastic, not offensive.
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