The Top Ten Differences
Between Marijuana and Tobacco

A Random Opinion™ by WS Mendler

 Now, my personal stance is that marijuana and tobacco should just be treated equally by the law. Legalize 'em both, criminalize 'em both, I don't really care -- but it's the hypocrisy of having two standards for two more-or-less equally risky plant products that is one of the great unadmitted roadblocks to sensible and effective drug abuse prevention. Having said that, I must admit that the two are indeed dissimilar in certain crucial ways -- and to prove that I am hep to the subtleties, I submit the following...

Top Ten Differences Between Marijuana and Tobacco


10. There's never been a macho "Acapulco Man" advertising 
    campaign.

9.  You don't see groups of stoners huddled around office 
    building doorways in the rain.

8.  No toothpastes are available to "get rid of embarassing
    THC stains on your teeth."

7.  The "Spliffs Annual Tennis Classic" didn't happen this
    year.

6.  There are no Senators who identify themselves as being 
    from "marijuana states."

5.  No drug kingpin (or other CEO) has lied before Congress 
    about the addictiveness of marijuana.

4.  Uh... wow, what was the question again?

3.  Clinton has definitely inhaled tobacco.

2.  You'll never, ever find the end of a marijuana
    cigarette on a sidewalk or in a public toilet.


...and the Number One difference between marijuana and tobacco:

1.  Five years imprisonment and a $50,000 dollar fine!

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