Why is Marijuana Illegal?

[Panjandrum]

No prosecution for personal use weed is already the case here in most of Euroland. In the UK and Holland they never prosecute for personal use quantities.

With this new law in mexico, I can see an increase in cross-border tourism coming. If the 'moral' arguamnets didnt move the us government, perhaps the financial arguaments will?

[orbsycli]

legalize Cannabis Indica while you're at it, too...

[alexander]

interesting, knowing us, they will probably not do it, but lets see what the primary reaction to this will be from the congress...
they will probably just make it a state issue, so it may get legalized on a state level or something...

[Michaelangelica]

this is an interesting site trying to present abalanced point of view
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopi...nabis.xml#vote

[occams's razor]

im not sure if this was already covered. but the reason marijuana is not legal is beacuse it was used as a form of protest during the vietnam war. as far as i can remember that is all. it is slowly becoming less inforced in the states and as far as i know it is legalized in some cities already. but again, i am going on memory, so please correct me if im wrong.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by occams's razor

im not sure if this was already covered. but...

It's pretty easy to check... This thread only has a few pages.

Anyway, it's pretty much illegal everywhere, but some areas are beginning to consider/allow it's use for specific purposes. Also, this doesn't even take into account the personal decisions being made by law enforcement officials when they find someone possessing or smoking it... Let him go... Cuff 'em up?

[dagaz]

An interesting story (I think anyway):

A few years ago I did a lot of environmental protesting and forest blockading (East Coast of Australia). At one protest the cops who were really heavy (I was arrested twice and charged with "Standing on a public road") busted our base camp, taking all our lock-ons (for locking yourself onto a bulldozer or other machinery) and a large biscuit (cookie) tin of what was described on the charge sheet as "green vegetable matter". We had some quite powerful lawyers working pro-bono for us and after a call from one of our lawyers the head seargent had to come and return our lock-ons and tin of "green vegetable matter"! (he hadn't had a search warrant)

Later on, at the same protest we did a blockade of the main road into the mining area (a gold mine in the habitat of twenty seven rare and endangered species, two of which were not known from any other location at the time, and using two tones of cyanide per day in the separation process) and a mate who had gone up a tripod realised that he had a tobacco tin of "green vegetable matter" in his pocket. I was the police liaison person for the protest and not meant to be arrestable so he gave the tin to me for safe-keeping. When the cops got there I was the first one arrested (with my mates hooch tucked into my back pocket) and they then arrested everyone else (six of us in total).

My girlfriend at the time, who was also arrested, had a quite substantial cleavage so she hid it down there. When we got back to the cop shop (police station) she was taken to the bathroom and managed to hide it behind the toilet. I was the first one processed and let go (this was the 2nd time I had been arrested) but before I left I asked to go to the toilet. As it was a small country town, the police station only had the one bathroom so I collected the tin from behind the toilet and casually sauntered outside with it. There was a large grassy park outside the station and I sat down in the middle of it and rolled a big fat one to share with my friends as they came out one by one!

[sun]

beeautiful story,

bravo!!!!

[DarkColoredLight]

This discussion will go on for years outside of this forum and outside of the internet. Only stopping when the subject changes to "Why is Marijuana Legal?"

The only way you can help the cause is by helping the cause. Finding out who in your city/state/counrty has started a reform, or creating one yourself, with the help of a reform.

The only way you can help yourself is to know the system, and beat it. With help from, ding ding ding, a reform.

I'm sure you can find them yourselves, but if you're too baked to use your search button here is a start: http://www.norml.org/

And yes, the usage of weed is normal. Along with the usage, not indulging, of all drugs. That is, when taken with one of the greatest drug of all responsibity.