“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)
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“If you want to destroy coca here, then let us destroy the tobacco in North Carolina and Kentucky. It’s a far more dangerous substance. It kills way more people than coca does.”
Evo Morales the President of Bolivia
