It's called a law, cuz you aren't allowed to argue it. Most of us breaking the law by growing weed illigaly, however, everyone agrees here that Marijuana laws are nonsense, but hey - they told us it's bad for us...
Yes, using conserved energy you can "shoot" it to the orbit, however firing up a rocket in space from equilibrium will not work and this is what I'm talking about. Today's "space ceiling" for human kind is about 400K ft. they say. Yeah, Van Allen belt is da bitch - they will have to work hard on that one before they send monkeys to Mars