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The Starter
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Re: Media Bias
Ok listening to Smerconish (Why I'm using this thread) this morning got me going. So the subject was should the US adopt the same law New Zealand has in respect to nicotine/cigarettes? It bans the sale of nicotine products to anyone born after a certain year with the intent of having nicotine completely illegal in NZ in a couple of generations). His poll responders were about 50/50. The health risks and costs of cigarettes were the driving arguments for banning them. Now that said I think donuts to dollars that most of those wanting to go that route also were supportive of legalizing marijuana. However, smoking marijuana has more health risks than smoking cigarettes. I just don't get how people think. One thing a ban movement would have is financing as I'm sure the Mexican drug cartels would be willing to support an effort to outlaw cigarettes.
Note - I've never smoked (anything), don't like smoking and nag people I love that smoke to quit, but think it would be the dumbest move since alcohol prohibition if the US ever did ban cigarettes. |
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Inhaling smoke of any kind is not a great idea, but these days there are plenty of other ways to consume marijuana without smoking it. |
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The Starter
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Difference is a lot more people smoke cigs (and more of them) so it has much higher effect on health costs overall. |
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![]() ^^ this is Sun Med in Cecil County, MD, mid to low tier quality grower imo. I personally am not a fan, tend to buy the higher quality stuff as I only smoke maybe 3.5 gs a month. Mexican cartel weed revenue is zero nowadays thanks to legalization and medical cannabis. |
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The Starter
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And that has what to do with what I said??????? |
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Playmaker
Join Date: Sep 2019
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Re: Media Bias
One thing a ban movement would have is financing as I'm sure the Mexican drug cartels would be willing to support an effort to outlaw cigarettes.
^^ from your earlier post I originally took that as mexican cartels smuggling weed, didnt quite understand it. Now I understand looking back ... you meant mexican cartels would be smuggling in cigarettes but yeah ... good talk. ignore the other "discussion" stuff I said got excited for a sec, thought we were going to have a worthwhile conversation on here and not be at each others throats having a tough frustrating day IRL today ... |
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