Would you legalise marijuana for tobacco to be banned?

[Demen 2]

No one is dying because marijuana is legal.

Oh really? People high on it have a higher chance of getting into a traffic accident, higher chances of suicide, chances of an overdose, higher risks of lung cancer, and more.

I don't think anyone can smoke that much.

[Mushet]

Tobacco is a sacred plant

Pfft, bollocks.

Who are you to say it isn't?

[Fellrike]

Banning tobacco, lol, liberals...

If you want 100x the crime, violence, corruption, that marijuana prohibition has ever created, then sure, ban tobacco.

You will continue to be retarded idiots, regardless.

Exactly! Prohibition is the problem.
If we banned tobacco, roles would be reversed. Nicotine addicts would gather behind closed doors to indulge their vice, peeping through curtains to make sure police weren't creeping up on them. And when they'd finished, they'd spritz a little fragrance onto their clothes, and rub some gel into their hair and ask each other, "Do I smell like tobacco smoke?" Then, they'd go out to mingle with the nonsmoking population, nervous about the possibility of being found out, and jittery as hell from the nicotine. And all the antidrug moralists would claim tobacco caused smokers to become paranoid, and to isolate themselves from family and friends.

[Dagnia]

No, I would not. I personally would like to see weed legalized and restrictions on tobacco repealed. I smoke tobacco regularly, most often in cigarettes, but also in cigars or hookah. I have only had weed a few times and it gave me such an anxiety attack each time I decided it would be best just not to smoke it. Still, I'm not going to advocate legalizing one and banning another because I don't like one, which is what a few weed smokers I have met seem to think would be a good idea.

If the situation becomes reversed, Phillip-Morris will just end up selling marijuana, and the guy I would get my weed from would sell tobacco, and all the problems we associate with the transport and selling of marijuana would become the problems of transporting and selling tobacco.

[Geilinor]

No. Then people would just switch to marijuana. It doesn't help drug addicts. And it could make more than 20% of the population criminals under the law, because tobacco use and addiction is more common.

[Vazeckta]

No. That will just turn even more people with addictions into criminals, and waste money to carry out the law to the fullest extent.
Legalize both and call it a day.

[Jinos]

No. And I'm tired of the "Tobacco companies are manufacturing death" slogans.

[Ifreann]

Banning tobacco, lol, liberals...

You seem to have missed all the liberals in favour of keeping tobacco legal.

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Pfft, bollocks.

Who are you to say it isn't?

I am sent by Him who is called "I Am".

[Ethel mermania]

We couldn't just legalise both and give people the facts about their effects in order to allow adults to make mature and informed decisions about the things they do.

We couldn't just do that? No?

this is Nationstates, so as you already surmised, "no".

[Condunum]

How about no? Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, it sure as hell didn't work for ganja, why the hell would it work for tobacco?

[Dracone]

Frankly, I'm disgusted by both cannabis and cigarettes, but I realise that weed is significantly less dangerous than the later are, even though it could cause schizophrenia, loss of intelligence and many things that we don't know about yet.

Anyway, I think we'd see a healthier world if smoking tobacco was banned in favour of cannabis legalisation. What do you guys think?

I would not. BUT I would legalize cannabis for the sake of legalizing it... the goverment has no right tot tell you what you may or may not do to yourself. even though I do neither I still think they both should be legal.

[CTALNH]

Why not have both?

I will however do neither.

Straight-edge. Hard-core.

No ban both and put a death penalty!