“So why is tobacco legal but marijuana illegal? Well, there’s an interesting history … I suspect one reason is that tobacco is an industrial product. It’s hard to manufacture — marijuana, you can grow in your backyard. To allow something that people can do on their own is dangerous, but to preserve an industrial system is significant, so it can’t be made illegal.”
Noam Chomsky
(Source: wildcat.arizona.edu)
Q&A: Chomsky talks tuition, US education
By GREG GONZALES Published February 8, 2012 at 12:28am
