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Do you expect the same amount of ads for heroin as for sport betting?

Get your first dose for free! Refer a friend and get more free shots! Every tenth shot for free!

Yes, I do. Heroin was widely advertised before it was banned, and I don’t see why those same commercial pressures wouldn’t lead to it being advertised now if it were legal. It’s not even a lie to say that it works as a cough suppressant!

Weed is legal in many places, are there ads everywhere there?

Also Coca-Cola should be allowed to use a real coke extract. I doubt they will as they cannot even use a real sugar in USA anymore.

They still do use real extract

>Also Coca-Cola should be allowed to use a real coke extract.

They do. It's bought from a Peruvian state-owned company and the cocaine is extracted for medical use.

Cannabis has become legal 1 1/2 years ago here and now there is a lot of advertising and the smell is everywhere. I wasn't a fan before, but now I want it to become illegal even more.

So, you can’t make something legal, but ban advertising it? Seems like a user error.

Some countries don’t even allow advertising legal and OTC pharmaceuticals.

If you had the lobby to make it legal, surely you also have the lobby to allow advertising. Especially after there are legal companies who would benefit from that.

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