Cigarette smoke makes me sick!Cinhil said:That was interesting. It should also be known that marijuana was issued to farmers, especially in the Southern States in order to create giant crops of marijuana for Hemp production during the First World War. Generally speaking there was never a problem with marijuana in the states until the Tobacco industry discovered that this product had been found to have the properties which smokers of it seek, and for which they had begun using it for for personal use rather than regular tobacco.
The Tobacco lobby lobbied extremely hard to have marijuana outlawed and eventually got Congress to do so, while at the same time being able to keep their highly toxic and extremely addictive (more so than marijuana) product legal. Today more people die daily from the use of tobacco in its various forms than for nearly all other of the top ten causes of death combined.
There was even a History Channel discussion of this. In fact when I watched the program it nearly made me sick just listening to the ingredients put into tobacco---so very highly toxic and a very legal high!
In either case both are drugs and are problems, the only thing different about them, really, is that tobacco is legal (though taxed through the roof) and marijuana is illegal.
And no, I don't smoke either of them. :ack: I just like to educate myself.
uke: I wish cigarettes were also outlawed.
