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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Yea...it is kind of weird I agree. We don't allow marijuana but guns, liquor and cigs are ok? I am pretty much in the camp of less regulation. I guess as long as people will buy and use the stuff, companies will make it. At least if marijuana was legal we could regulate it and also collect taxes on it to deal with the issues and save billions of $ a year on the "war on drugs".
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In the UK it has now effectively been "decriminalised" by being classified as a "Class C" drug, which basically means that if you're caught with it by the police, all that generally happens is they'll confiscate it from you and not take any further action. It's certainly far less dangerous than tobacco, unless you happen to be succeptible to some types of psychological disorders, which apparently it can make worse.
Tobacco, though, has to be pretty much unique among manufactured goods in that people buy it knowing that, if used in accordance with the manufacturers' instructions, it will kill them.