Marijuana more dangerous that you thought!

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

This is, of course, probable. It's interesting to talk to men who were
in the US occupation army in Germany and Italy after the War. They had
access to cheap cigarettes at the PX. The civil population of the
defeated countries didn't, and as a result, you could buy anything you
wanted with tobacco. I like to tell smokers that at least since
cigarettes are legal they don't have to turn tricks to get them. That
would be a necessary consequence of illegality. And no one steals your
TV so as to get high off Marlboros.

Moreover, since illegality would make leaf tobacco in any form just as
illegal as crystalline nicotine, the active substance would necessarily
be consumed in pure form, probably being smoked in something like a
crack pipe. Hence it would be much more potent, with many bad
consequences.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Michael Perelman wrote:


> If cigarettes were illegal, wouldn't a violent distribution emerge.
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