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Tobacco is easily controlled by the government which creates it's great revenue, along with aclohol. Marijuana, however, is not controlled by the government whatsoever. Would legalising it really help with the abuse of the drug at all? Or just make it easier to access?
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Legalisation in itself will do nothing except get the cops off everyone's backs. If it's legalised, controlled, and sold for a reasonable price, there won't be as much profit to be made from illegal grow-ops. If the gov't can
provide a good, clean product at a decent (but not overly-low) price, people will see much more incentive to get it from them.
It wouldn't help with 'abuse' necessarily, but the alcohol/tobacco situation isn't either...That's a different issue. A line needs to be drawn between use and abuse...Not all drug use is abuse.[/b]