I’m all for legalizing but I don’t think regulation should encourage it to be anything but a fringe industry. “Big Tobacco” took decades to weaken and if we let this new industry start rapidly growing we may be faced with a similarly harmful economic juggernaut that can out-punch any lobbyists in Washington.
Only flaw is that big tobacco will be big pot. Once r.j. Reynolds in all of the other tobacco companies sees how much money they can make in legal pot distribution, they will be buying up smaller entities by the Dozen. Eventually they will be the only game in town once again. And then they will start adding crap to the marijuana to make it addictive, destructive, and dangerous to use.
I’m all for legalizing but I don’t think regulation should encourage it to be anything but a fringe industry. “Big Tobacco” took decades to weaken and if we let this new industry start rapidly growing we may be faced with a similarly harmful economic juggernaut that can out-punch any lobbyists in Washington.
I completely concur, Counterpoint. We don’t need any more out there like Big Oil and Big Tobacco.
Salient point.
Only flaw is that big tobacco will be big pot. Once r.j. Reynolds in all of the other tobacco companies sees how much money they can make in legal pot distribution, they will be buying up smaller entities by the Dozen. Eventually they will be the only game in town once again. And then they will start adding crap to the marijuana to make it addictive, destructive, and dangerous to use.