Why does the government ban marijuana but not alcohol which is far more detrimental to society?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not sure you're correct alcohol is worse of society, but regardless, throwing another substance under the bus is not the answer. You'd be just as bad as the people who ban weed if you advocate for weed legality at the expense of alcohol.

[–]SeethingPeasant 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Alcohol is worse than Marijuana. That doesn't mean we should ban it.

[–]raven9 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Humans have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years. The countries that ban alcohol have the highest rates of diabetes in the world. The countries with highest rates of alcohol consumption have the lowest rates of diabetes. Alcohol is also a vasodilator so it reduces hypertention.

The united states wants you to be sick. The more sick you are the more you spend on healthcare. The coca-cola industry is partnered with corporate fast food to pump you full of their poison. In the old days the working men drank a pint of beer with their pub lunch. Today, American fast food corporations flood your digestive system with the biggest cup of coca-cola poison to ensure you get a nice big blood sugar spike with all your meals. This ensures a continous flow of diabetics and cardio patients for all the vultures in suits at your local hospital.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's been tried. They would if they could. Alcohol is too easy to produce and too hard to control. They get better results taxing it. The results, of course, is making money. All prohibitions are just government enforced monopolies. Everything that is prohibited is still available and it is sold by people in the government. The CIA is known for it.

[–]noshore4me 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Look up the 18th and 21st amendments of the US Constitution.

[–]TheOtherSide 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Control

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Alcohol doesn't randomly affect people.

Those who are alcoholics now would find another damaging way to deal with their issues in a dry state. Just look how crazy Muslim countries are.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

There are plenty of studies that show regular users of marijuana have slower motor response rates. Additionally, It's well known that marijuana has long term impacts on brain chemistry. I think the solubility, the difference between water soluble alcohol and lipid soluble marijuana is ignored by everyone now.

It's only been within the past 15 years, when a male can cut his pecker off and get validated as a female by the medical community that most of this isn't acknowledged.

I'm not saying there isn't a place for it, especially in a world that prescribes mind altering drugs like anti depressants instead of recommending people go to counseling or look into religion.

But recreationally, those who use pot often are damaging their intellect abilities permanently. Whereas, with alcohol, they're generally damaging their liver and kidneys, beyond the dependency factors which exist for both

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The question could be asked as to why prescription meds are handed out like candy by ecstasy is illegal?

Control and profit is most likely, lobbying and advertising revenue controls the market.

I'd prefer that the majority of psychoactive substances be made accessible to consenting adults via a legal, decriminalised route in quantities that are deemed to be within acceptable limits, not much different than the way I can only legally buy 32 paracetamol at a time here.

It is futile to claim that few hundred MDMA deaths a year worldwide is comparable to the 3 million alcohol deaths per year.

[–]SeethingPeasant 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because Marijuana can have medical benefits that would take profits from big oharma. Look at how much money big pharma made from forcing most of the planet to take a shot that they knew was 8% effective at best and had 1300 serious side affects, and knew this before it ever was considered for EUA use. Every country that accepted the shot had to sign an agreement that they couldn't stop it, complain, sue, or do anything about it. Here in the USA big pharma is immune from legal prosecution, they can kill and injure as many people as they want free of accountability, even tho our gov and big pharma literally lied to everyone about it being safe and effective, using an all out propoganda assault Ina quest for profits. It's all in the Pfizer docs.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Researchers from the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and University of Victoria found that people who died in crashes involving cannabis had 50 percent greater odds of also having alcohol in their system.

For the study, which was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, researchers analyzed 19 years of data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, a national database of fatal crashes on public roads. The percent of crash deaths involving cannabis more than doubled from 9 percent in 2000 to 21.5 percent in 2018, and the percent of deaths involving cannabis and alcohol also more than doubled from 4.8 percent to 10.3 percent. Cannabis was a risk factor for alcohol co-involvement, even at levels below the legal limit.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mostly racism and taxation.