Posted by saviour2012 on 01.21.2014, 03:44 PM:
answer is
"is the govt do want to fight drug addiction?"
the end result will depend on this question.
and i think you do understand that hemp is not actually marijuana[hemp is similar to jute(Bast Fibers),where hemp is one of the varieties of cannabis]. it does have industrial purpose so does many other plants too. i think harvesting hemp is not a necessity, if you consider other crops that can also be produced.[but i am not against it] and sometimes people break rule to make marijuana rather than hemp. this is purdue university research article from 2002
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-284.html
[and most of the goodness that people are saying about hemp actually came from this]
to save you reading this rather lengthy article just press ctrl+f and paste these then press enter
"Both in Canada and the US, the most critical problem to be addressed for commercial exploitation of C. sativa is the possible unauthorized drug use of the plant".
and
"many in the movements backing development of hemp are doing so as a subterfuge to promote legalization of recreational use of marijuana"
read it. [ofcourse you can read it fully if you want.[its a scientific paper so it will get boring still a good read]
understand this, the industrial effects you want from hemp can also be gained from other crops. the thing is the amount money that is gained by recreational use is nowhere near industrial use. same goes for alcohol too. we NEED alcohol everyday but for drinking no. but the market for recreational use is soo lucrative that people need to actually just make these things toxic[read denatured alcohol].
i wanted to say
so overall i can say that "I seriously do not understand" how can legalizing it will make it a better environment.LOL
but i want to say
the problems associated with drug is not something to just play with. cigarettes and alcohol as both of them are legal causes
"There are approximately 88,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. This makes excessive alcohol use the 3rd leading lifestyle-related cause of death for the nation. Excessive alcohol use is responsible for 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) annually, or an average of about 30 years of potential life lost for each death.1 In 2006, there were more than 1.2 million emergency room visits and 2.7 million physician office visits due to excessive drinking.3 The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2006 were estimated at $223.5 billion."
and
"Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and produces substantial health-related economic costs to society (1,2). This report presents the annual estimates of the disease impact of smoking in the United States during 1995--1999. CDC calculated national estimates of annual smoking-attributable mortality (SAM), years of potential life lost (YPLL), smoking-attributable medical expenditures (SAEs) for adults and infants, and productivity costs for adults. Results show that during 1995--1999, smoking caused approximately 440,000 premature deaths in the United States annually and approximately $157 billion in annual health-related economic losses."
both are several years old even without adding the new values
we get a total of 223+157=380billion dollar per year[should be about a trillion now].
Now please find me one business that can generate this much money.
so it is hard for me to see people get blinded so easily. you think that if marijuana gets valid then govt will be able to make more money. which is in every way wrong. you could make even more money just if you could utilize these people.
"The total annual cost of drug abuse presented in the report is an impressive $180.8 billion"
this figure is a rough estimate cause most of the drugs issues are unreported still a staggering figure. it will just rise another two hundred billion if drugs get more widespread.
and if you have not read that article fully then search this
"Comparative annual world economic significance of categories of Cannabis activity."
see that 1 trillion yeah its for recreational use.[in whole world]. which actually tripled right now[it is a 2002 article] (and you say people want to use it for industry, even dog food industry is 21.6 billion where "The global market for hemp-derived products is valued at between $100 million and $200 million annually". lets assume its 1 billion. still it is thousand times lower)
now it is upto you how will you think, the figures are presented.
there is absolutely no way that unbanning it will make it better, actually it will just make it worse.
source :http://www.cdc.gov/
NB: i try to use something very official very specific[or scientific research] material when there are things that involve monetary profit to parties. so its better to just ignore any kind normal sites.
offtopic:
quote: especially when I spend most of my day doing just that during classes/lectures
this is interesting it maybe a cause why i am interested in these things
edit: one simple image to show the difference between hemp and marijuana[who dont have the energy to pass through all the materials]
Cross sections of stems at internodes of a fiber plant (left) and of a narcotic plant (right). Fiber cultivars have stems that are more hollow at the internodes, i.e. less wood, since this allows more energy to be directed into the production of bark fiber
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