It's illegal because the tobacco companies don't want the competition.
No to your title/poll. Also, I doubt its a miracle drug. But it makes the government WAY less money than Big Alcohol which buys Congress reps and pours BILLIONS into advertising yearly.
There is not as much money in Cannabis as there is alcohol. Think of how ingrained alcohol is in every sport. Think of the money made off of drunk driving, etc. Wouldn't you rather have a more laid back society high on Cannabis than drunk out of their minds on alcohol?
Weed is not a miracle drug. It's only proven uses are centered around pain relief in occasional cases where typical pain relief is ineffective or undesirable. And we are talking about the oil here, engineered to be just the pain reducing part of the plant.
There is no big pharma fear, if cannabis finds traction as an effective treatment, it's going to be a highly processed form big pharma brings out.
If it wasnt a plant it wouldve gotten FDA approval by now and doctors would be charging you through the ass for it.
You dont think a war on a harmless plant isnt real look up the war against Kratom that iam fighting in!
Pharm companies dont like natural cures cause they cant patent it and the DEA needs this banned to justify there massive budgets!
Ah. Is it tin foil hat time already?
It's illegal due to tobacco, timber and police force lobbying.
Also anti-mexican and other minority racism in the 1930's. The fact it's called marijuana instead of cannabis is actually rooted in Mexican racism.
Combined with inertia, things that have been banned for a while tend to take a while to get unbanned.
So racism, money and laziness. Could be seen as sinister I guess.
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Cannabis isn't and never will be a miracle drug. There's no such as a miracle drug. The closest that comes to is are antibiotics and even those are starting to fail. It might have some virtues for pain relief, but it sure as hell won't cure cancer. If anything, smoking pot is just as bad as smoking cigarettes for lung cancer.
Let's just see pot for what it is: a recreative drug. There is no sinister reason. Plus it's going to be legal soon enough here.
sinister no, but long ago this was illegal because wood and paper company did not want competition again hemp.
There are "sinister reasons" for everything!
No, I always saw it as people trying to control weed in a way that they couldn't control alcohol.