Has anybody scene Marijuana Inc on CNBC

[Silcc69]

It was on like 12:30am last night. It always amazes me that something natural is illegal like that.

[freak]

Marijuana is illegal because of the big business in the early 1900's. Here is a web site that will show how and why the laws to outlaw it were made. http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/
http://www.iahushua.com/Hemp.html

Here are some interesting facts about the dangers of drug

Cigarettes are proven to be highly addictive and cause life threatening disease.600 billion cigarettes are smoked every year,435,000 Americans and over 4 million people world wide will die each year from smoking related illnesses. But that is a big business so the government allows it. And they say Marijuana is the gateway drug, the first drug I tried was a Kool.


The report from the Institute of Medicine (2007) says that tobacco kills more Americans annually than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicides, suicides, car accidents, and fires combined.

Alcohol is also another addictive drug and not as bad a cigarettes causes life threatening diseases. There will be almost 100,000 alcohol deaths from consumption, that is not even counting alcohol related accidents. But then again it is big business so the government will just tax it and regulate it.

Cocaine is very addictive is illegal (as it should be IMO) but only kills about 18,000-32,000 people yearly. That figure was lower then I thought it would be so I used the high and low, even the high I thought was low.

Prescription drugs, legal and some are super addictive but are needed, even though it is easier to get a bottle of pain pills then a sac of marijuana. There will be about 32,000 deaths this year from prescribed drugs in hospitals and up to 106,000 total, that is a shocker too, a bit of medical malpractice there.

Aspirin and other OTC drugs for pain, legal and should be. 7,600 people will die this year from misuse and allergic reactions. There will also be over 75,000 people admitted to the hospitals for treatment from reactions from them.

Marijuana, the illegal non addictive gateway drug. ZERO people will die, that was 0, none, nada, zilch. And herre is the shocker, the stats are from the US government!


An exhaustive search of the literature finds no credible reports of deaths induced by marijuana. The US Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) records instances of drug mentions in medical examiners' reports, and though marijuana is mentioned, it is usually in combination with alcohol or other drugs. Marijuana alone has not been shown to cause an overdose death.

Source: National Academy Press, 1999), available on the web at http://www.nap.edu/html/marimed/; and US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition" (Docket #86-22), September 6, 1988, p. 57.

Also Marijuana is good for the environment, it would save 100000's of acres of trees just for paper.

[freak]

As for the question, I seen it but not last nigh, I downloaded it so I am not sure if it was the same show. If so it was not a good report, it was very one sided. Can you believe that the people that run the county would want to get rid of the growers even though they admit it would cause the county to become the next Flint MI, total depression. The growers are admitted to be over 60% of there economy, so business that relies on there money would be closing. The only problems they have is because it is outlawed.

[SarahG]

Big business is only part of the story. True, tobacco was a huge industry back in the victorian era (more then we can possibly imagine today), but the other side of that equation was that back then there was a massive movement in the United States aimed at fixing our country's so-called "vice" problems (meaning; drugs, alcohol, sex, etc.).

You had a combination of totally unrelated groups all working together to try to restrict and outlaw practices they considered to either be harmful, or morally wrong, or both. This didn't normally include tobacco because 1- its dangers weren't truly known yet, 2- people didn't see it as the cause of "societal decay" the way say, heroin did, 3- people didn't associate it with people getting a drug-induced state/high.

You had those temperance feminists using axes & hatchets to tare apart saloons, liberals & anarchists trying to outlaw prostitution by arguing that capitalism was forcing pure American women to sell themselves to get by, religious groups advocating forcing the country to go dry- and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

They had seen what "vice" was capable of through the fall of the chinese empire (caused by the British importation of drugs), everyone knew that we had destroyed the native tribes using alcohol... and it probably didn't help that American vice-districts were usually places of high crime (and in the case of Chicago one of these poorer districts supposedly had a cow knock over a lantern in the middle of the night... which led to leveling the most important city in the country).

So they turned around and went after everything- slowly making prostitution illegal in virtually the entire United States, forcing numerous states & counties to go dry... eventually culminating with the Mann Act and Prohibition.