Will weed ever become legal ?

[Digsy]

I'm not saying it's a good argument; but that is why it was outlawed and it's just about the only reason it remains outlawed. Everything else is circular reasoning; it's outlawed because it's bad for you and the proof it's bad for you is that it was outlawed.

 

Do some research:-

 

Harry J. Anslinger

 

Anslinger was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity — a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.

 

Anslinger immediately drew upon the themes of racism and violence to draw national attention to the problem he wanted to create. He also promoted and frequently read from “Gore Files” — wild reefer-madness-style exploitation tales of ax murderers on marijuana and sex and… Negroes. Here are some quotes that have been widely attributed to Anslinger and his Gore Files:

 

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

 

“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

 

“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

 

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”

 

“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”

 

“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

 

“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

 

And he loved to pull out his own version of the “assassin” definition:

 

“In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs’ ‘hashashin’ that we have the English word ‘assassin.’” - http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

 

Straight from the horses mouth.

We were given the narcotic laws from the yanks who recently have allowed some states to ditch these laws.