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Originally Posted by fugazifan

btw i have a question,
what is the actual reason that marajuana in illegal?
there seems to be no logical reason....

it's harmful if consumed in excess but so it is with alcohol (worse even, alkies are serious bad news), cigarettes, etc.

the best explanations i've read are socioeconomic-- in food of the gods, this guy what's his name, says that hallucinogens are bad for the industrial lifestyle, and that's why coffee, tobacco & sugar were "ok", plus etOH for relaxation but frowned upon during work hours.

these days health care costs are making cigarettes almost illegal.

anyway alvin toffler argued similarly & said that post-industrial societies didn't require the machine-like precision of the factories of old and that's why more people were smoking weed.

then there is the funny thing i read in a book in old india the warrior class ate meat and drank wine & called the brahmins a bunch of hippie potsmoking girlie men-- the brahmins smoked weed but abstained from meat & alcohol & called the warrior class a bunch of redneck barbarians. (evidently i'm "adapting" this for present-day language).

so i guess it depends on the state of mind that the economic system requires of you, that makes things either "ok" or verbotten.

anyway last week after a long week of work i felt like smoking a little reefer & cooking dinner but the thought of getting involved with criminals in order to get a miserable joint turned me away from it. a pity.