Weed. Ganja. Dope. Marijuana. Whatever you want to call it, it's green, has five leaves, and it'll get you high. Oh, and it's illegal in the US. Or is it?
Being unable to think of anything good for this blog post, I decided to use an old debate standby. So I went over to google, my internet buddy, and asked him about marijuana's legality, and he told me something interesting. Apparently, medical marijuana is legal in 13 states. Unfortunately, state laws are trumped by federal laws, which prohibit marijuana.
But why is it only theoretically allowed anywhere? What's so bad about marijuana? It seems to be that marijuana is all-around better for you than alcohol, a legal drug. Why isn't it legal?
I think that it's kind of like prohibition. It was made criminal by special interest groups, it leads to lots of arrests, and it isn't so terrible. I believe that the reason that marijuana hasn't been, and alcohol has been decriminalized is because when alcohol was criminalized, there was nothing to get that level of high from, whereas now, with marijuana, there is an alternative.
I think the point is, people want to get high. People like loosening up and forgetting their troubles for a night. And without alcohol, we couldn't do that. So why booze over weed? Because people figured out how to make money from alcohol. Alcohol is a HUGE industry, because it was discovered that alcohol could be mass produced, cheaply. I'm sure we could do the same for marijuana, which would stimulate the no-longer-failing economy and perhaps, if it was government-controlled, pay off some of the massive government debt.
Just some pot for thought.
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