Petition to make tobacco products schedule 1 drugs

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Originally Posted by Robdukes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All drugs should be legal and the state should provide REAL unbiased information on effects and harm that can be caused. Since they did this with cigs and everyone found out about cigarettes causing lung cancer the amount of smokers dropped dramatically. The amount of drug users has risen. Which policy works? Kicking in doors and sending people to jail or letting properly informed people make up their own minds.

Except you've got two categories of marijuana uses :

1. Medical
2. Recreational


Medical should be containable and controlled - without prescription you get nothing.
Recreational is not controllable, other than tax. It's certainly not containable.

The former is something that may work and to some degree has worked - however there's other substances we can use beyond marijuana that will do the same job and not require smoking (wtf, whoever thought that was a good idea? It's not a treatment for an illness it's simply a pain reliever).

The latter is a scenario where practically anyone can get their hands on it, abuse it and affect society around them.

Does pot make you homicidal, nope. Does it make you commit vehicular homicide, yes.
Does drinking yes. Does nictone, no.

People SHOULD be able to police themselves, but in our world today, they don't.