its strange how one of the most highly engineered drugs, cigarettes, contain something like 4000 or 5000 ingredients, mostly toxic, designed to keep you addicted, poison and eventually kill you is perfectly legal. its a mind**** the government allows this to go on when they involve themselves in every other aspect of life in the name of our safety. just imagine a grocery poisoning its food intentionally and legally as long as the govt gets half the revenues in tax. smoking kills more than alcohol, illegal drug use, homicide, suicide, car accidents, and AIDS combined each year. mass homicide legal per our govt.
cigarettes are, imo, one of the most addictive substances there is. when i decided i didnt like the effects of alcohol on my body, i just quit drinking. but when i decided cigarettes were bad for me, it was hell to quit smoking. at first, the friends i lived with were like "good for you, you can do it". after about three days, they were offering to buy me cigarettes. still when i get stressed, i dont even think about drinking. but there are some days i would still shoot someone for a cigarette. the craving never leaves. people i have known who quit harder and illegal substances and tried to quit smoking said the harder stuff was nothing compared to cigarettes. if cigarettes were made illegal, the narco wars south of the border would be childs play compared to how in demand illegal tobacco would be, and the massive illegal trade. and yes, i agree. far more deadly than alcohol or illegal drugs.
Interesting. I've always thought that cigarettes were way worse then pot. Granted, neither are particularly good for your lungs, especially the tar that good weed leaves behind, but cigarettes seem to be more deadly because of the additives and carcinogens. But lets keep weed illegal and not use it as a tax revenue stream; especially since we don't need the money or anything. :rolleye33:
It's been 3 1/2 years since I had my last cigarette. Hardly a day goes by that I don't have the urge. Luckily the urge is short duration and my mind soon moves on to something else. I wish I could say the same for Crown
Hey, money talks, right? Not if you vaporize it. We need lobbyists for weed. Seriously. That sh!t would become legal in the blink of an eye.
I guess what I meant was a strong lobby with deep pockets. Ironically, that can't happen until the sh*t is legal.
Given the current economic client and debt situation, I really believe its only a matter of time before its fully legal. 'Medicinal use' is paving the way. And, it's so easy to get a script in those states that it's practically legal anyway. I'm not sure of the validity of these statistics because I haven't researched it that much, but I do remember reading somewhere that we could basically eliminate the national debt within 20-30 years, just by taxes on legalized weed alone. Of course even if true, the politicians would figure out a way to blow it on something else anyway.
