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by yodsanklai 4258 days ago
I agree with you. There's a whole trend of advertising cannabis as something cool (or as a miracle "natural" medication that cures everything, from anxiety to back pain).

Unfortunately, it's not that harmless. I know plenty of people that have been smoking cannabis daily from an early age and they are suffering because of it.

That being said, I'm entirely for its legalisation, but there should be some reasonable middle ground between harassing users and ignoring the risks.

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The obvious question is, are the tobacco companies allowed to sell marijuana cigarettes mixed with tobacco?
Cannabis can be consumed in various forms. For instance in Europe, most people mix cannabis resin ("hashish") with tobacco, whereas in North America people smoke weed pure. Other ways include vaporisation and ingestion. Mixing with tobacco is probably the worse way as nicotine is highly addictive and we all know the health problems associated with tobacco.

So no, I don't think they should be authorised to sell their tobacco cigarettes with cannabis inside! Actually, I hope that legalisation will give the opportunity to inform people about this.