Why are alcohol and tobacco legal while cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms are...

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...not? Discuss.? Please take the time to seriously consider the question.
to peskyz... i'm well aware of the historical events that have led to the varying legal status and subsequent priority for enforcement for just about every recreational psychotropic known to man, it was meant to be a discussion.

this is yahoo answers. if i wanted to just do the research then why would i be here???

but i HAVE done the research, this is more to see varying opinions/attitudes about the issue
to the guy below peskyz...

good input... alcohol is only allowed due to the failure of prohibition (mob violence and failure to control alcohol were good reasons not to continue the prohibition) it actually lists alcohol as a schedule I in the Controlled Substances Act (Substances that are highly addictive, unhealthy, and have no legitimate medical purpose) but it is written in as an exception due to the failure of prohibition.

Tobacco is another story. This country was built by tobacco, while it is a dying industry today (people are starting to realize how dangerous and disgusting it is) at one point it brought a great amount of british money into this country.

This country was built by tobacco and slavery.
however, we freed the slaves, we didn't outlaw tobacco.
to leahian>

although tobacco may be legal in the state of california, it is still completely illegal in the united states (of which california is a part) and can be full prosecuted regardless of state law. (Federal law supercedes state law)

in fact many medical marijuana patients have been raided and incarcerated by the DEA for growing/possessing something for which they have a valid prescription written by a licensed medical doctor.
typo above, tobacco should read cannabis regarding california medical cannabis.
another interesting point is that hemp (which is less psychoactive than cannabis and not at all fun or recreational or medicinal for that matter) is also illegal, while it is a very valuable crop and has a myriad of purposes.
 
Because the lawmakers feel that way.

End of discussion.

Note: How can anyone take time and seriously consider this? The only way you can consider it is if you don't take time.
 
Do your homework. There is no discussion, there is just historical reasons why. Alcohol was actually outlawed with other drugs, but we didn't stand for that shit, (ever heard of the Prohibition?)

Cocaine used to be legal (Coca-Cola contained it as a syrup at the start of the 1900's or so.) But slowly but surely, everything became controlled substances. I also heard a story about the rope industry spreading the evils of "Marihuana" (SIC) to keep hemp from competing with them.


EDIT: Ah. Well... for my opinion, I do think Cannabis could be controlled with legal purchase successfully, not to mention they could tax the hell out of it and it would still be cheaper then street value, not to mention safer (no street lacing, or robberies etc) as well as boosting our economy through taxing it. However, they would have to start a "Don't smoke and drive" campaign or something. I don't ever see Psilocybin Mushrooms being legal. I remember smoking Salvia as a kid, that stuff is now a first degree felony for possession in Florida and a few other states. Hallucinogens should not be legal, at least not in the world we live in.
 
Believe me, if the government could tax and regulate them they would be legal. But I'm cynical though.
 
cannabis can not be controlled people grow it in houses so nobody would out of it plus people high all the time get a hobby if you want something to do the only people that should have any right to it is people with medical problems
 
I'm 45 and have been consuming marijuana for 32 years. Unfortunately I have also been smoking cigarettes for that time too. Alcohol I gave up 20 years ago. Alcohol and tobacco are legal because the governments have found ways to control it. They cannot control marijuana and halucinigenics. They grow like weeds not crops. Most people don't realize that alcohol is a poison, and tobacco contains toxins. The governments of this planet want us to kill ourselves with highly addictive substances while they suck in trillions of dollars in taxes out of the users pockets. Its all about CONTROL people. Resist and defy is all we can do. My country wanted to decriminalize marijuana, but the U.S. government threaten to shut the border down tight if the government did. Had I been the Prime Minister of Canada at the time I would have laughed at Washington, and decriminalized it. I would have called their bluff. If they shut the border down I would have pulled the plug on their electricity and oil. Paybacks are a biatch. The old establishment ideas of controlling have no place in the modern world. Being force to do or not to do something has no place in the 21st century. So wake up people NO ONE LIVES IN A FREE COUNTRY.
 
cannabis and magic mushrooms cause people to think differently. Can't have people thinking about things on anything deeper than a skin deep level, harder to control them that way. So we keep the alcohol legal, to deaden thier senses and make them forget how bad they are being screwed on a daily basis, and give them cigarettes to kill them faster, and make a nice chunk of tax revenue at the same time.
 
who knows anymore. the government is twisted, and i think pot should be legal everywhere.
 
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