Currently the government allows you to smoke a substance that smells rank, has no pleasant side-effects and it makes people who give it up very grumpy and annoying. Tobacco kills over 100,000 people a year nation wide, and over 3.5 million a year worldwide. The tobacco companies strive to make this product more addictive. In fact, the government not only allows it, but funds it. However, cannabis has yet to produce 1 documented case of death. It has yet to be proven to have any long-term affects on the brain, and is not physically addictive. Yet, dope is illegal. Why isn't tobacco? There is only one reason I can think of to slightly justify this. Tobacco isn't a necessity and as such, the government can easily tax it.
Perhaps that argument is slightly childish, "if tobacco is legal then cannabis should be too". But how did cannabis become illegal in the first place? There are two reasons for this.
One - The illegalization of marijuana in the States was used as a tool......
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