[WastingMyTime89]

The issue was prohibition in the USA was that it indiscriminately criminalised selling, transporting, owning and consuming alcohol. With tobacco, modern countries could simply ban selling while allowing consumption. The risk is that the black market would flourish. I think the current policy of constantly hiking the price is a compromise: it restricts availability while limiting the development of parallel sell channels.

[jdavis703]

That hasn’t worked well with cannabis. If the price is too high, that allows the black market to thrive. There are three dispensaries on my street. Yet there’s still street-level drug dealers selling illegal cannabis.

[tastyfreeze]

You can thank the high taxes on cannabis for that. Dispensary cannabis could be much cheaper.

[wyre]

Banning prerolled cigarettes while allowing the sale of rolling or pipe tobacco might be a good middle ground.

[twblalock]

That would push a lot of smokers to unfiltered roll-your-own cigarettes.