Anti-Tobacco Lobby Stretching the Truth?

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Originally Posted by 42PETUNIAS

So you think that it would be fine if the government made heroin, PCP, and all those other hardcore drugs legal,

Why yes, I believe these drugs, under federal regulations like any other drug, would be good.

Heaven knows illegalizing, say, heroine during this drug war has done nothing but fuel the misuse and mismaking of it.

and used corrupt marketing techniques to pressure children into trying and getting addicted to it?

And *this* would be illegal. I never said that was okay -- I said we should have any recreational drug legalized. That would mean government regulation and less chance for things like the spread of aids, overdose, the black market economy that stems from illegal things.

I mean, that's a pretty slippery slope, because it's pretty hard to draw a fine line at how far you can damage your body.

I'm looking something up currently. Hold on please.


Edit : Here, Penn And Teller with their crack research team and award winning show has a lot to say about it:

Disclaimer -- Gracious amounts of questionable language

Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3

Prohibition proved what illegalizing drugs does -- and alcohol is far worse a drug than Cigarettes.