[Charlatan]

Is marijuana a drug? Yes it is, it has physical influence over you, so it is a drug that you can get addicted to, and causes altered judgement. So what do we do with it seeing as how there seems to be a demand for it? Like was said, it is much the same as alchohol in effects, so it is dangerous. Shouldn't alcohol be banned aswell? Well if they are dangerous, then why are they on the market? Why are guns on the market, they cause accidents too, so what do we do with all these bad things? Make them illegal of course, and confiscate wht little there is left. That would make for positive changes. If they have bad side effects, then why have them on the market? It is your body, but you are a citizen of the state, and as such abide by their rules, so if it is bad for you they should take it away, acting as a good parent, but this isn't the case.

What we get instead is them deciding what bad things we should have access to, and rule out anything that falls under the term 'drug'. So what we are left with is a high demand and a intolerance by the state, for something as harmful as alcohol. I think the image of the state was in mind when making that law, as smoking something is less tolerated than drinking something that has been around for years - I think it was because there would have been an outcry from the people in power and the voters, seeing as how they all wold like the option to drink alcohol, and think that dope sets a bad image. Dope has a bad image, and that is why the majority think it is bad, so rule it out of the reach of people.

Dope was misunderstood, in a way that avarage people that hadn't grown up with it thought that it was an antisocial activity, and so made it illegal before fully understanding it, and now that people want it legalised, and others don't, it will remain illegal no matter what a few people say, as the image of dope is one of antisocial behaviour, while it's effects are not worse than booze really. So it is the image that was made illegal, as the effects are, for lack of a better word, legal. It is legal to feel lazy, it is legal to have an altered perception on medicinal drugs, so why is the law made of the image of the item? Abortion is legal! Some say that that is murder, but it has a favourable image. The image is a pregnant girl with a runaway father, so the law works on that. Death penalty? The image is that of a person being executed, and not of the crime they did, so, law is superficial, and this one is, as I have argued, just that.