Smoking kills more people every year than pot ever has. I don’t see why cigarettes should be legal when pot isn’t.
Pot is bad for you, and in a perfect world no one would use them, but let’s be real. It’s as prevalent as alcohol during Prohibition at this point, and we all know how well that turned out.
The way I see it, if laws banning cigarettes and marijuana could stop trafficking entirely I would be all for it. But we’ve been trying for decades to stop trafficking, and it’s been just as successful as the last time we tried during Prohibition.
So legalize it, tax it to oblivion, and stick health warnings all over it. Make the best out of a bad situation, because almost anyone in America could get access to marijuana now, despite it being illegal in most states.
Yeah that'll stop illegal drug dealing. /s
Because that freedom for adults to chose what to ingest is just too dangerous.
I grow my own tobacco because of prohibitionists and statist tax freaks.
/johnny