Quote (Psycho- @ Dec 24 2010 11:00pm)
it comes down to is the world fair? the answer is no and thats why minorities will always be denied things they want. making it legal is just too great a step for marijuana given the social status of it. trying to fight the law while breaking the law in the name of personal satisfaction will not sway voters to your side. weed for non medical purposes has no positive consequence for non-users so until they benefit from it being legal it will remain illegal.
people smoke cigarettes for the nicotine high? people drink to get drunk? whats so different?
there are many reasons for cannabis being illegal. do some research on the early part of last century and you will find that they said all kinds of crazy things to make weed illegal. they said that the minorities (mexicans, blacks) used it the most and that when it was used black men would turn into wild lunatic savages and rape white women.
we know that to not be true. and the reason they said all that was because people high up the totem pole had lots of money in lumber and textiles. they made it illegal because they found that hemp can make so much more paper and textiles than anything already on the market.
the "majority" never made it illegal. the minority of rich investors made it illegal through propaganda on the stupid ignorant majority which had used cannabis for YEARS with no ill effects and they did it all through calling a common used plant MARIJUANA. people didnt know wtf marijuana was back then. hadnt ever heard of the word.
it was illegalized because of money interests, propaganda, and ignorance.