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Why is Cannabis illegal in the Fed's eyes??

I know why, but what is your opinion?

I am 52, have smoked cannabis for 38 years, legal for the last 11. I have had 20 surgeries head to toe, starting since I was 10. Most on my feet and lower back and am allergic to any opiate based pain meds...

What is your story?

DrewShourd 7 May 16
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Cannabis is illegal because it is classified as a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drugs are those that have the potential for abuse and have no accepted medical use. But I recommend getting Marijuana edibles that are legal to get, and you can buy edibles online. These edibles are better to use because they offer a more controlled and consistent dose than smoking marijuana. Edibles also allow for a longer-lasting effect, which can be useful for medical patients, and you don't need any special prescription.

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There are many people who believe that cannabis should not be illegal because it has a number of potential medical uses. In fact, a growing number of states have legalized cannabis for medical use.

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I have never tried but I think it should be legal all the health benefits to cannabis are crazy

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There is a lot more profit to be made from manufactured drugs. It is a lot easier to grow marijuana in your backyard for free than to try to manufacture a pharmaceutical drug

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They don't like the competition ...

yup....ALL about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s

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If you are Australian the Geoff Kennett got into Parliment because he said he would legalise it

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Lots of posters have alreasy given the reasons as good as, or better than i could. So i won't go into that.
Most people have their drug of choice. I find it kind of amusing on the dating site I'm on people will say they "smoke cigarettes often, drink alcohol socially, and love their coffee in the mornings", but two lines down they say they "don't do drugs", Lol.
I'm 64 years old and have smoked cannabis for around 42 years +-, I've stopped for weeks at a time and once or twice a few months at a time. But always went back. If there's a drug I have a habit of that's it. OTOH, since it's the most benign drug known to humanity I won't complain about it.
Hell, hundreds of people die every year from aspirin, aspirin! Cannabis deaths still stuck at zero. Tell me again about "killer weed", Lol.
My quick 2c. Good morning everyone!

Right there with you, man. I've smoked, off and on, for over 50 years and can take it or leave it. Have gone months, even years, without and it never bothered me. Haven't paid for cannabis for as long as I can recall, and will share whatever I have with anyone, which now is OK since I live in CA and it's legal.

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Alcohol has been effectively controlled and is heavily taxed. Pharma drugs require industrial scale, not withstanding meth labs, and the industry lobbies heavily. Marijuana is a weed anyone can grow. Follow the money, mix with racism especially very early on. Not hard to figure out. States are now learning to profit from it so the legalization momentum is roaring ahead.

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Sounds like you are all cut up about it ?

I use a grinder...hehehe

@Agr8m8
Making Cookies ?

@VAL3941 currently no, but back in L.A. in 2005 I started a small cannabis edible company and made teas and chewy granola bars, it was called, 'Wake and Bake Foods'...I designed the logo//

@Agr8m8
What happened, the business go bust ?

@VAL3941 I started it cause I had no money, not the best time to start a 'start-up'...I was having surgeries, couldn't work, was in a lot of pain and eventually sold it to two guys that were completely inept at just about every aspect of making, marketing and selling these awesome products.

@Agr8m8
Start again,?

@VAL3941 That was in Cali, now I live in Michigan (caring for parents) and they are on the fence about cannabis edibles.

@Agr8m8
Always something ! Lifes a bitch !

@VAL3941 Life is SWEET, Karma is the bitch...hahahaha....

@Agr8m8
You got me there ?? Lol

@VAL3941 ...just trying to stay positive...and in a way I do feel that the crappy parts of life have to do with karma, our choices, learning curves, intuition and the constant pressure of the universal molecular vibration sequences....wait, give me more of those granola bars...hahaha

@Agr8m8
Sounds like you have a Phd in Karma ??

@VAL3941 ...as we all should once we past 50 right?..haha...

@Agr8m8
Don't know about that ? Meg some prettg stupid people in my life !

@VAL3941 true....me too, hence the term 'should', agreed that many don't.

@Agr8m8
We must be careful,,I was hualed over the coals by someone objecting to me calling some people stupid ! Lol

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If memory serves, one of the initial root causes was that hemp as a source of paper is immensely more efficient than the wood pulping method patented at great expense by DuPont (I'm curious if it was also a textile threat to cotton back in the day. ) Another is that it gave people an easy scapegoat cause for demonizing black men. Add to that all the holdover revenue from the war on drugs, its medicinal and psychotherapeutic properties threatening big pharmaceutical companies, and the fact that to legalize it now would put the federal government in a position where they have to start letting people out of prison, which is a threat to the corporate prisons and their 'sweatshops aren't cost competitive' model for fabrication that has become popular with companies trying to squeeze extra pennis out of labor overhead to pad profit margins.

You did your homework. 🙂

@Betty I appreciate the function laws are intended to serve. If I'm going to brazenly and without remorse just disregard a law, I would prefer to have sound reasons to do so, and an at least partially defensible argument against the rationale behind the law. I won't even get into marijuana as a schedule 1 controlled substance, or the potential detriment to cancer research all this nonsense creates. I won't go into how a bunch of white people are making money hand over fist legally while black and brown people are rotting in jail because they were trying to do it before the laws caught up (which as a federal law, no state legislation can actually prevent the DEA from busting people because it's still a federal crime, technically, which happened more than a few times during California's early years of legalization) to the idea that maybe marijuana is just another in a long line of victims of business-powered politics. Not, in my opinion, that this is actually any different from any other system of government through history apart from the illusion of control and freedom the general vote creates. The people with resources influence the government, get involved in the government, and then shape the methods of that government to enforce the status quo and to ensure that others can't upset the balance of resources. And it's done largely in the name of stability, or tradition, or religious morality.

@geist171

I agree. Politicians have a history of favoring big business that can help them in their climb up the social and economic ladder and they use taxpayer dollars to do it. Laws, regulations, policies, and rules are supposed to be created for the benefit of the citizens but too often politicians spin the information in the attempt to benefit big business in return for support. That's why hemp was shut down as a viable raw product for paper and textiles and eventually made illegal.

It was beneficial to create a drug war to keep the black and brown population poor and segregated from the white population by demonizing them. This allowed them to reduce and scrap social programs and keep funding for schools and medical services at a minimum.

Religion has done more to harm minorities by keeping the majority docile in the service and to the benefit of government. It was "religion" that legitimized slavery, the slaughter of aboriginals, and allowed the government to officially diminish their human status.

For thousands of years, religion and the governing body of the day worked together to divide and conquer and they have been very successful.

The law is not always right when it is to benefit some by sacrificing others.

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Never have and not likely to ever use cannabis. With that said, I agree with you, recreational cannabis usage should not be controlled by the government.

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its to do with money

BINGO!!

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Legalization is coming (back).
They're politicians - one thing they can't resist is a guaranteed revenue stream.

Bingo. $$$ will change everything.

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Fucking uptight Christian conservative mentality. I am still dumbstruck that cannabis wasn't declassified from Sched.1 under Obama.
I've smoked for 50+ years, and the stupidity of how cannabis has been dealt with in this country amazes me.
It's highly gratifying to now reside in a state (CA) that has finally listened to the people on this issue.

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Two reasons, 1, The more you prohibit the more you control. 2, Follow the money. Illegal drugs make money for crime - crime gets into legit business - business pays politicians

That's part of it. 🙂

@Betty a HUGE part imo...

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Many thoughts on that subject. From racism to crowd control during the 60's. Free thought was thought to influenced by pot and LSD. I live in Idaho and think it will be one of the last states to legalize this plant. Crazy huh🙂

I live in Kentucky and I'll bet Idaho will legalize long before we do, whether medicinally or recreationally. Numerous bills have been introduced this year and they all go nowhere.

I love Idaho, my brother lives in Boise, and has a cabin up in the Garden Valley on the Payette River. It's a beautiful state, and people are so friendly, mostly.

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I smoked once this century. Was not impressed. Was smoker before the 80's, easy to give it up and not inclined to go back. Those who do... don't bother me, neither are my enemies. In my youth never felt it was going to be for life. My body, my story... can't use my good health as an excuse.

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