Marijuana

Why ban weed and entertain cigarettes?

The problem of legislating morality is ,it depends on whose morality.

 

Thanks.
The bulk of your argument lies in preparation of Marijuana. Obviously the reason many buy it off the streets is because very few process and package it. If it were legalized like alcohol and measures put in place to guarantee hygiene the problem would be solved.

I'm saying your fears would be addressed by regulating processors just as they do food. Talking of food, we have had instances of salmonella and solution was not to ban vegetable packaging or selling.

 

Cigarettes fry your liver sir and it does not add to your brain cells.

I wonder why Christians are not as vocal in their opposition to cigarettes as they are to abortion and other subjects. Do they deem it an acceptable evil? Or did some theologians smoke setting foundation for this passivity?

 

I need to research on this point.

You are already subsidizing diseases directly attributable to cigarettes as we speak

 

this is so crazy news it sounded like satire. Why would the government sell weed? I’d expect them to leave it to private endeavors. Too much political correctness

 

Now those are valid counterarguments against legalizing it. But maybe the costs of keeping it illegal combined outweigh this.

 

Stranger than fiction. They never let go all these years

 

On a slightly different note.

This 2015 research of most harmful drugs using multi-criteria decision analysis had interesting conclusiona. I paste the abstract:

European rating of drug harms.
van Amsterdam J, et al. J Psychopharmacol. 2015.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The present paper describes the results of a rating study performed by a group of European Union (EU) drug experts using the multi-criteria decision analysis model for evaluating drug harms.

METHODS: Forty drug experts from throughout the EU scored 20 drugs on 16 harm criteria. The expert group also assessed criteria weights that would apply, on average, across the EU. Weighted averages of the scores provided a single, overall weighted harm score (range: 0-100) for each drug.

RESULTS: Alcohol, heroin and crack emerged as the most harmful drugs (overall weighted harm score 72, 55 and 50, respectively). The remaining drugs had an overall weighted harm score of 38 or less, making them much less harmful than alcohol. The overall weighted harm scores of the EU experts correlated well with those previously given by the UK panel.

CONCLUSION: The outcome of this study shows that the previous national rankings based on the relative harms of different drugs are endorsed throughout the EU. The results indicates that EU and national drug policy measures should focus on drugs with the highest overall harm, including alcohol and tobacco, whereas drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy should be given lower priority including a lower legal classification.
European rating of drug harms. - PubMed - NCBI

Whatever weights are assigned to harm scores alcohol and heroin emerge as the most harmful and significantly more harmful than marijuana or ecstasy.

Food for thought