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? asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 1 decade ago

Why is Marijuana ILLEGAL while Datura is LEGAL?

Datura is a powerful deadly dileriant that causes stupor, utter confusion, confabulation. One person took it and chopped off his own penis and tongue. Its caused so many arrests and deaths. Its extremely dangerous. When people are high on it, it turns them into zombies where they cant tell reality from fiction. It sucks out all the liquids in their bodies till they die from not being able to breathe and stops the heart.

With a drug this dangerous, when is the Government going to make Datura illegal? Its a plant and grows from the ground and is natural like marijuana. If marijuana hasnt caused a single death and is supposedly much safer than alcohol and tobacco, why not outlaw datura since its far more dangerous than meth, cocaine, tobacco, heroin combined?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u12SZAyMp54

http://www.lycaeum.org/~crzkieri/datpoison.html

Marijuana is far safer than this and hasnt killed anyone yet but its ILLEGAL while Datura is completely 100% legal with no restrictions on it whatsoever. What sense does that make??

If certain drugs should be banned because its unsafe use, shouldnt Datura be a illegal substance???

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  • Demi
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is far more dangerous than both of those combined. It is odorless, colorless and exceptionally common. It is responsible for massive numbers of death, injury and property damage all over the world. Shockingly, there isn't even a primary school that doesn't have DHMO in its very halls though how many of the students use it is hard to say.

    It's a dangerous world out there. Yup.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    My neighbors grow datura in their front yard and every time I see it I ask the same question! That stuff will *literally* kill you or give you brain damage. You don't ever, EVER want to even try datura!!

    There's no way the government can justify classifying marijuana and HEROIN in the same schedule like they're equally harmful and equally addictive - they're NOT!

    And there's no way they can justify allowing you to grow a "devil weed" like datura in your front yard while busting you for possessing a small amount of dried cannabis flowers! Write to you legislators and tell them!!

  • 1 decade ago

    Because the plant is classed as a poison. Therefore it IS illegal to sell as a drug.

    In fact it is MORE illegal, selling the substance as a drug could land you in jail for attempted murder and not the lesser crime of distribution.

    FYI to others, the plant he's talking about is also called nightshade.

    reposting doesn't change facts honey.

  • 1 decade ago

    I can list thousands of legal things that can kill me if misused. That doesn't mean marijuana should be legalized if I'm dumb enough to drink Drano or bleach.

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  • 1 decade ago

    If stupid partakes..............

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