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"It cannot be because of the health impact, because that is exactly the other way around. There has never been a fatality from marijuana use among the 60 million reported users in the United States, whereas tobacco kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. My strong suspicion, though I do not know how to prove it, is that the reason is that marijuana is a weed, you can grow it in your backyard, so there is nobody who would make any money off it if it were legal. Tobacco requires extensive capital inputs and technology, and it can be monopolized, so there are people who can make a ton of money off it. I do not really see any other difference between the two of them, frankly except that tobacco is far more lethal and addictive." Noam Chomsky
9:09 PM
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