Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?

the government still thinks that reefer leads to heavier drugs. I'm against it( except for medical purposes) because I'm a fresh air kid. always have been, always will

What happened to the foorball discussions.
Anyway to let you know that marijuana was made illegal back in the day because it was found to have uses similar to plastic. At that time Dupont had a lot invested in plastic and didn't want marijuana to take their business so they lobbied for it to be illegal. On the harmful side, marijuan has many more side-effects than tobacco, ie one joint has as many cancer causing agents as one pack of regular cigarettes.
Lets get back to football.

It's all about money. Tobacco is a big cash crop in the South. And the big tobacco companies have way too much clout to ever allow cigaretttes to be made illegal. There's no way that Congress or any President will ever have the guts to do anything about it. In fact, many politicos get big campaign contributions from the tobacco industry. Cynical? Yes. The truth? Also yes.

So, you and I, through higher insurance premiums, will continue to pay to cover the medical costs that smoking creates.

By the way.... pot doesn't give you cancer either...

light it uuuuup!

Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html)

What happened to the foorball discussions.
Anyway to let you know that marijuana was made illegal back in the day because it was found to have uses similar to plastic. At that time Dupont had a lot invested in plastic and didn't want marijuana to take their business so they lobbied for it to be illegal. On the harmful side, marijuan has many more side-effects than tobacco, ie one joint has as many cancer causing agents as one pack of regular cigarettes.
Lets get back to football.

You're wrong... The original reason it was illegal was racism.

Yellow Journalism was used as proof during the senate debates on making it illegal (essentially, a senator called his buddy up to write newspaper articles on how pot made people crazy, and those articles were used as evidence... and the rest is history)....

Tabacco was the white man's drug... refer was the Mexicans drug and back in the day that was a problem.

What happened to the foorball discussions.

They still exist over in the football threads...this is to discuss things "off topic", ie: non football / redskins related.

On the harmful side, marijuan has many more side-effects than tobacco, ie one joint has as many cancer causing agents as one pack of regular cigarettes.

Ummm what? Where did you hear that? I have still yet to hear of anyone dieing of cancer caused by marijuana. I'm not saying it's great for you...heck any smoke in the lungs can't be good, but worse than cigarettes?? I need to see proof of that.


originally posted by "That guy". oh yeah, and that flawed gateway drug thing.

Everything is a gateway drug! Asperin, alcohol, cigarettes, cough syrup...it's all a gateway drug. Fact is, if you have an addictive personality then anything would be bad for you. But I know guys that are addicted to pain pills, but nothing else, I know alcoholics, but they won't touch anything else, and i know pot heads that won't even drink. It has to do with your personality whether or not you will become addicted to what a drug does to you.

I used to laugh at all those old commercials like if you smoked weed, then you're a terrorist, or if you smoke weed, you'll run over some little girl. It's crap. The new commercials are better where the one kid says "nothing will happen, but I for one want to live life" implying he'd rather be outside than vegging on the sofa. At least that is realistic.

i believe cigarettes are much much more likely to cause cancer, so i don't know where you got that info gus.

Everything is a gateway drug! (etc...)


you did see that i said flawed, right?

you did see that i said flawed, right?

Yes, I was agreeing with you...sorry I did not communicate that properly.

By the way.... pot doesn't give you cancer either...

light it uuuuup!

Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html)

Great post rob.

Gus, fear of marijuana is what feeds the notion that it's badfor you. Your parents tell you it's bad, or the government, or whoever, but it's all out of fear. Just like anything, you need to find your own answers, not regurgitate (sp?) what you've "heard".