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Originally posted by Husky
Yeah, I understood your point, and I think it's a valid one. I've heard that tobacco companies have factories or whatever already set up in anticipation for the day weed is legalized. Depending on the circumstances of its legalization, if tobacco starts controlling it, then it will probably get ****ed up. If, like Jameson says, it'll continue being distributed medically, then it should be just fine.
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I wouldn't be surprised if tobacco companies had plans for it either. If you know of any article about it, I'd love to read it.
I do not support any form of de jure, legal recreational use of marijuana. Even if it is severely limited, I would be worried that the tobacco interest groups would lobby congress to slowly relax regulations on it. They already have a lot of influence on policy as it is.
About medical marijuana. That is tricky. I'm not a doctor, so I can't really rule it out. The thing is, the FDA doesn't approve of any medication that is used via smoking. Esp. since it is not difficult to synthesize plant material into pill form. In fact, we already have it. It's called marinol. It is essentially the same as marijuana, except you don't smoke it. Thus, eliminating the major negative of marijuana. It's already legal through a prescription.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000403/