The War on Cannabis-A War Worth Fighting?

This is a very controversial topic that many would side with or fight against, the use of Cannabis. I am simply going to lay down the facts as they are and you be the one to decide whether this plant is harmful to our society or a benefit. Every since the beginning of time the Cannabis plant has been used for multiple reasons, not just to get "high" it is used for paper, fuel, building materials, fabric, textiles, rope and hemp seeds are highly nutrition rich protein, minerals and dietary fiber. Cannabis was huge in America, at one point this that had so many benefits was required to be grown by most people in America. George Washington, the first president of the United states grew hemp and the declaration of independence was written on hemp paper and the parachute that George Bush Sr. used in World War 2 was also made out of hemp. Hemp had many uses and was going to be the "billion dollar plant" because it had many benefits. They were going to use it for oil, food, and newspapers. But then one man named William Randolph who owned a new paper and multiple paper mills heard about this new revolution which was going to cost him millions of dollars decided to publish a story in his paper about this new drug called marijuana. They got his plant illegal by saying "people were smoking it, and blacks and Mexicans are raping white women." So congress outlawed this new drug without knowing it was hemp. Which hemp had been used for thousands and thousands of years, then the war on pot was started with all these propaganda's were launched to make people feel guilty of using this plant it was totally economic. Since 1972 the government has been fighting this war and has been losing it. President Nixon has been one of the few presidents who has really opposed the use of Cannabis, he funded a case study on the use of cannabis and the results said that there is no harm in this "drug" to be used privately, so he freaks and says "the blacks, the gays and the jews want this drug to be legal." It is a very hypocritical and unjust way to restrict people to this natural plant that has so many benefits.

Many recent studies most notably one in Spain has come to the conclusion that hemp oil can actually cure cancer, but there are so many other alternatives that the pharmaceutical industry has like chemo therapy that degrades your body, and even cutting a limb off. The real reason why Cannabis is banned is because of economics and business, there are thousands of things that Marijuana would fix that pharmaceutical drugs right now would prescribe for and if Marijuana was made legal that would cost the industry billions and billions of dollars. The economies and world wide markets depend heavily on the pharmaceutical industry because it produces billions in revenue. If Marijuana was made legal it would cost alcohol companies because the alcohol companies fund "partnership for drug free America" which produces much of the modern day propaganda. Alcohol is also a type of drug some would say and so are cigarettes containing nicotine which is an addictive substance. Why cigarettes are legal is beyond me, it is because they produce a lot of revenue and is taxed which goes toward the government, as long as the government is making their money they have no questions to ask. But if governments were to legalize marijuana they would save billions and billions of dollars. In a year alone in the US they would save 8.7 billion dollars in law-enforcement costs in which 750,000 people are arrested nation wide annually in cannabis use related "crimes". The legalization would hurt and disable drug cartels all over the world as 60% of their income is through Marijuana, and all those benefits come before it is taxed. If Marijuana were to be taxed the revenue it would produce would be about 13.7 billion that is more than alcohol.
                                                         

They say that Cannabis is a gateway drug to other things much worse such as heroin and cocaine, if that was the case then why is Marijuana a class 1 drug while heroin and cocaine are Class 2 drugs? Yes the "drug" is mind altering and changes your perception but just like alcohol it needs to be used in moderation just like everything else in the world. Many religions such as the oldest religion Hinduism and especially Rastafarianism partake in the consumption of Herb, it puts then in a spiritual state of mind and cleanses the body and heals the mind.You say you can get addicted to Weed? But you can also get addicted to gambling, TV, sex and even Facebook. They say Pot makes you lazy and a loser. No, that is because before pot you are already lazy and already a loser, now your just a pot smoking lazy loser. No one has died from Pot in thousands of years, 400,000 people die every year directly from use of cigarettes and 75,000 deaths from alcohol. There is more harm then good that comes from alcohol and cigarettes, while this plant that God has put on the face of the earth for our use is outlawed. Many drunk driving deaths happen because of alcohol and violence, with Marijuana there is no domestic violence, sexual assault, and overdose deaths. What is the worst that can happen? The world will run out of Doritos come on. Bob Marley once quoted that "Herb is the healing of a nation while alcohol is the destruction." Genesis 1:29-30 "And God said, behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which upon the face of the Earth and every fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it shall be for meat." Paul:1 Timothy 4:1-3 "Now the spirit speakth expressly that in the latter times, shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be recieved with thanksgiving of them which believes and know the truth." Words of God, Not Mine. BANG BANG