It's not legal because of propaganda of the early 20th century.
Basically, US Government made it illegal to grow marijuana, which was used for
many purposes (mainly "industrial" more than recreational : clothes, insulation, rich oil etc...) just when its "manufacturing process" became easier.
To industrially use marijuana you need to separate its pulp/flesh from the rest of the plant, which was only made possible by hand-work until some dude invented a machine to do it, in the early 1900's. It's precisely when the propaganda striked to forbid the growth of marijuana, lying and invoking absurd reasons ; like waves of people murdering their family for no reason but the use of marijuana (accross the US border of course, in Mexico) and such...
Why ?
Because oil, petrol and money. Marijuana becoming easier to process was a threat for the petrol industry, a risk of decreasing profit. Being a plant easy to grow anywhere (it's not called weed for no reason) on pretty much any soil, and rich enough to provide a good alternative to petrochemical industry, the oil lobbies decided to pull a few strings and financed a few political campaigns... when you have shitload of money and friends in the government, it was easy to block marijuana's industry.
And here we are, 100 years later, barelly aware about why a plant we've been using for thousand years is illegal... invoking hypocritical health issues while selling tobacco, alcohol, and chemical "medicines" 100x more addictive and dangerous than pot.
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I don't know why you think this is "fine"... Being unable to control your mind and body is kind of a big deal.
It sounds like you never even tried it once. I've been smoking pot for about 10 years now, not excessively. I've never been "unable to control my body" or my mind. It sure gives you a different perception of things, but it doesn't causes a "loss of control" like alcohol does.
Plus, mind controlling sober is a bit overrated, I've seen some sober people going crazy over strong emotions, no need for drugs to lose control.
And on another note, your male brain thinks about sex every 4-5 seconds and you don't even know it, so much for self mind control.
Last edited by deprav; Sep 1, 2013 at 07:12 PM.