no, b/c money in politics.
Leaving out law enforcement and the prison lobby?!?
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Marlboro green is sort of scary to think about, considering all the dirty tricks the cigarette companies used to make tobacco more addictive.
Actually, I think we can expect the same tricks, adding nicotine to weed.
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A tobacco/weed blend product is a certainty anywhere it is legalized. Hopefully theyâll put those nasty pictures & big skull & crossbones on those. My tobacco consumption would have ceased much earlier than it did but for my enjoyment of such a blend. Didnât often partake of tobacco otherwise for many years but always had a pinch to roll with.
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Whilst in the UK, government ministers benefit from promoting legislation that legalises products like Sativex because they also happen to be some of the largest investors in the company that produces it.
At the same time, predatory dungeon masters like Jacqui Smith enjoy public support when reclassifying it as a dangerous drug as the ageing, propagandised public continue to fawn over and lap up such legislation.
Surely you mean âMarleysâ?
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Well, the mix I was aware of already, but the cigarette companies used to add nicotine to already nicotine laden cigarettes until told to stop (to the tobacco, the filters, the paper, the cigarilll tips).
There is evidence they are doing it again, but no smoking gun yet.
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Okay, you and I are splitting the marketing royalties.
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Contrary to popular belief it was likely Flavor Aid consumed at Jonestown on that fateful day.
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Yeah, quit dissing on us old folks. Iâve been for ending the pot prohibition for fifty years; please remember who was in the hippy generation, after all! Even most of my friends who are conservative are pro-legalization, and the liberal ones definitely are. (This in Canada.)
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Oh man. Thatâs a disgusting metaphor in so many ways. Even the most burnt out potheads I know (I use cannabis too. Stop hating, itâs just half a joke) wonât drink bong water. Itâs perhaps the grossest thing that likely wonât kill you besides a century egg or hakarl.
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The alcohol lobby has a huge hand in the opposition to federal and local cannabis legalization.
Who can blame them? Theyâve had a monopoly on legal, generally-available intoxicants for about a hundred years now. Just like how record labels had a monopoly on the distribution of music, and the studios had a monopoly on films. Any prohibition is just propping up an outdated and basically dead business model. The reason for 90-odd percent of drug-related violence is because of the war on drugs. People think drug-related violence is intoxicated people doing stuff because theyâre high, but only about 5% of that violence can be accounted for that way. The rest is dealers and syndicates killing each other over rivalries and turf. You can get rid of far more than 50% of drug related violence by simply legalizing drugs.
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Yeah, the DEA wields illogical power in a fucking unruly way. Iâve done research on the DEA, and they appear to me to be the USâs neighborâs number 1 worst terrorist organization. Itâs like the DEA has been given free-reign to decide and enact foreign policy beyond even the treaty organizations. Those 'roided-up dickweeds need to be hauled into court for their crimes, really. Of course, weâll never see it happen, no matter how many villages they poison, or how many innocent merchant vessels they sink.
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I live in Washington state and have yet to see a commercially sold spliff. Although commercial joints and double-duty vaporizers abound.
The Baby Boom generation may be more pro-pot, but the oldest boomers are in their late 60s, and our parentsâ generation is still around, though weâre losing many of them. And even the boomers and the younger generations arenât entirely pro-legalization, especially when theyâve been scared by things like meth.
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The most recent Gallup polls shows that 58% of the U.S. population favors legalizing cannabis (and that number will grow as the current generation of senior citizens dies off)
I realize my community circle isnât universally representative of the U.S. - and I live in Austin which is extraordinarily liberal by Southern standards - but many of the folks I know who smoke (or bake) pot are senior citizens. And Iâm not talking about layabout do-nothings. My circle consists almost entirely of fiscally responsible and productive members of society. Many smoke. I hardly ever do these days. But when I get up there in years, Iâll likely choose a relatively healthy holistic proven painkiller over the dubious pills Big Pharma fast-tracks through the FDA. IMHO there are two types of arthritis patients, those who use pot, and those who havenât tried it yet 
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Mixed joints are unfortunately common in the Netherlands. I used to always get given a free one when my partner and I went into our regular coffee shop. I already disliked tobacco but I discovered there that mixed joints trigger migraines for me. I donât remember hooka shisha giving me migraines but I never smoked shisha often and havenât for a while. Mixed joints definitely do almost every time.
We only saw pure joints for sale in Amsterdam, all the prerolled ones we saw in our town were mixed.
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