If alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are legal then shouldn't marijuana be as !
Question: Simply put all three of those substances are more addictive than marijuana. None of them serve any real medical purpose. Marijuana is schedule 1 because it is considered highly addictive and has no medical purpose. Therefore, according to the DEA themselves, If marijuana is schedule 1 these three substances belong in schedule 1 as well. But they are not therefore marijuana which is less toxic than all three, causes less deaths than all three, is less addictive than all three and actually has some potential for medical use should be legal.
Answers: Simply put all three of those substances are more addictive than marijuana. None of them serve any real medical purpose. Marijuana is schedule 1 because it is considered highly addictive and has no medical purpose. Therefore, according to the DEA themselves, If marijuana is schedule 1 these three substances belong in schedule 1 as well. But they are not therefore marijuana which is less toxic than all three, causes less deaths than all three, is less addictive than all three and actually has some potential for medical use should be legal.
I've been saying for a long time that if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be legal. Anyone who had been around a person that's been drinking, and a person who's been smoking pot... there's a big difference in their attitude, propensity for violence and risk taking behaviors. Drunk people often think they're invincible and are more likely to get violent. Pot smokers are laid back and just want to 'chill out', not get into fights, etc.
I'm not necessarily saying that it would be best in an ideal society for both alcohol and marijuana to be legal, but if one is going to be, it's not fair that the other, more benign substance isn't.
I also agree with your logic regarding nicotine and alcohol, and that they too should be classified as schedule 1, if marijuana is.
Just in case I ruffle anyone's tail feathers, I'd just like to clarify that I don't condone marijuana use in the general population... I don't think that it's abuse among kids is ok... but as with other substances, like alcohol and nicotine, it should be up to the individual adult to choose whether or not they want to use it.
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Doctrine, I agree with you. But I do think that a distinction should be made between abusers and addicts and infrequent, recreational users. There are many people who destroy their livers, stomachs and brains with alcohol addiction... that's money out of tax payers' pockets... but it's unfair to responsible alcohol users to ban the substance completely. The same argument can be made for fast food... imagine how much tax money we would save if we banned McD's!
You're forgetting the most important factor- Marijuana turns you into a raving moron later in life. You can recover for the most part from alcohol abuse, and certainly from the effects of nicotine and caffeine, but the effects of Marijuana last forever, and can be devastating as you get older. I don't want to be paying higher taxes to put stoners in nursing homes when they are 60 because they can't remember their names. Why should we all have to pay the consequences of some idiots to get high over and over and over. Try it once or twice if you must; I did. I hated it. I would never touch it again.
I never heard of a marijuana "addiction" messing up generations of a family but alcohol on the other hand...
Yes, it should. That said, the 1930's movie Reefer Madness probably killed any chance for it's legalization. Also, the DEA just hates to give up one of it's own.
I am 53, and I thought by now, it would be. Sadly, by the time someone gets into a place to cause change, they usually don't want to.