It should be sold as a generic drug by pharmacies that make most of their business from other drugs not dispensary entrepreneurs creating massive retail brands like alcohol.
In Australia, tobacco is sold behind the counter. Tobacco has plain packaging and there is no advertising or promotion.
This is the way marijuana should be sold - cheap, clean, legal, available, but behind the counter and not advertised or promoted. It should not be like California or Thailand where you can go to cafes or marijuana shops.
Marijuana should not be treated as alcohol however - advertised, commercialised and glorified. Available, cheap, clean is enough.
Hah, in my country 10-15 years ago there was huge brainwash movement pushing pro-marihuana narration, mostly music/rap/etc communities
> Caffeine starts off as a physical addiction unlike marijuana. Caffeine also does not require a lot of use from the substance in order to become physically addicted, unlike marijuana. When both substances are consumed in large amounts both have equally terrible withdrawal effects.
Does it cause break downs in families and car fatalities like alcohol?
Does it trigger latent schizophrenia in susceptible individuals like canabis?
Does it create zombies like whatever it is they're consuming in San Fran?
I have one cup of coffee in the morning but there was a time when I was having 4-5 cups and it was affecting my healh negatively.
But is there a well established causal chain of coffee drinkers hurting others from their coffee induced insomnia mental breakdown?
> physical addiction.. withdrawal
And who are coffee's non-using victims? Co-workers putting up with Mr. Grouchie for a day or two?
That'd be great. Lets start by putting a 100% sales tax + $1/50ml ethanol on alcohol. Let's see how inelastic alcohol consumption really is.