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The is a problem with legalizing drugs that I haven't seen previously mentioned. The drug companies have to keep it illegal . If it is illegal and people are obtaining drugs illegally then there is no one to sue.

If drugs for pleasure are legalized then every drug company that manufactures either an opiate, a synthetic opiate is open to lawsuit for wrongful death the same way the cigarette companies have been sued for the wrongful deaths of smokers. Legal product, legal use, despite the years of warnings and the years of education that the stuff kills.

The legal maxim has been that addiction absolves one of individual responsibility. There is the addiction aspect here in aces. No one can control ones self in the face of opiate addiction. The addict is not at fault it must be the evil drug manufacturer that is at fault.

THC might be available in pill form but do you actually think RJ Reynolds is going to step up and want to produce mary jane cigs. In 15-20 years the lung cancer suits start with this product. The smoke from marijuana is every bit as carcinogenic as tobacco. The one difference is that most smokers work their hind ends off for 50 years and die at about retirement age. Most pot smokers that are daily drug users are not exactly productive members of society.

There is only one winner in the entire situation and that is trial lawyers. All of the rest of us loose.