Because it would eliminate crowding of the prison system (many inmates are in for pot smoking, which doesn't harm others), innocent people wouldn't get injured while passing through traps in marijuana fields, and so that people who truly need medicinal marijuana don't have to jump through hoops to get it or to have it denied to them, and so that the government can make money by taxing one of the largest cash crops in the nation, so that people can enjoy its effects without being afraid (come on, should you really legislate something that doesn't hurt anybody?) , and so that people can grow it for OTHER uses without being hassled (rope, cloth, PAPER, etc.), etc. etc.Originally posted by: Tabb
Bamacre, explain to me why the United States should infact legalize (or decriminalize) the use a harmfull product, WITHOUT bringing other drugs or products into the conversation.
If you want, I can give you more reasons.
By the way, give me a link or other source where it EXPLICITLY states that somebody was harmed BECAUSE of inhaling the smoke of a THC-containing cannibus product. I can, of course, understand that somebody could be driving while high and drive like a drunkard, but I haven't heard of any of those cases yet.
Which basically means that you are unwilling to approach the task of explaining the government's hyprocrisy in disallowing marijuana and not alcohol and tobacco products, both of which are proven to be more dangerous than marijuana products (and when eaten, it does NOTHING harmful to the body).After all, we are talking about pot not anything else.
http://www.hempoilcan.com/compo.htmlHemp seed oil has been dubbed, "Nature's most perfectly balanced oil" due to the fact that it contains the perfectly balanced 3:1 ratio of both the required essential fatty acids (EFAs) for long term human consumption.]
http://www.dailybread.co.uk/food/hemp.htmHemp seed has many nutritional benefits. It contains a high proportion of amino acids in ratios best suited for human assimilation
http://mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/HEMP/IHA/iha03101.htmlHemp seed shares with no other plant resource, both a high content of easily digestible complete protein and a rich endowment of oil providing a favorable ratio of the linoleic (C18:2w6) and linolenic (C18:3w3) essential fatty acids required for proper human nutrition, in addition to a significant contribution of gamma-linolenic (C18:3w6) acid of potential therapeutic efficacy.
Hemp is an annual fiber crop with over 25,000 known uses...For example, Roulac suggests that "one acre of industrial hemp can produce up to four times as much paper as one acre of trees" (HH viii). Hemp can be grown in most fields "with little or no herbicides or insecticides" and rotates well with grain, beans, and flax...The oils of the hemp plant have been made into both biodegradable plastics (HH 120) and ethanol fuels (BOH). Both of these uses of hemp oil would be more ecologically sound when compared to using their petroleum counterparts because most petroleum-based plastics are not biodegradable and the burning of petroleum-based gasoline, unlike biomass (plant) fuel, is a major cause of air pollution.
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesF/hempuses.jpg
And if you're wondering why I'm talking about non-THC-containing hemp, I believe it is illegal to grow that, too.