So today's question... why is marijuana illegal? Would you ban it also? I wouldn't and here is why marijuana is illegal...

It's Perceived as Addictive under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug on the basis that it has "a high potential for abuse.

It Has Historically Been Linked With Narcotics, Such as Heroin early anti-drug laws were written to regulate narcotics — opium and its derivatives, such as heroin and morphine. Marijuana, though not a narcotic, was described as such — along with cocaine.

It Was Once Associated With Oppressed Ethnic Groups The intense anti-marijuana movement of the 1930s dovetailed nicely with the intense anti-Chicano movement of the 1930s. Marijuana was associated with Mexican-Americans, and a ban on marijuana was seen as a way of discouraging Mexican-American subcultures from developing.

Inertia Is a Powerful Force in Public Policy

If something has been banned for only a short period of time, then the ban is seen as unstable. If something has been banned for a long time, however, then the ban — no matter how ill-conceived it might be — tends to go unenforced long before it is actually taken off the books.

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