Why don't tobacco companies support marijuana legalization?

[silent tone]

To me they seem to be the largest organizations to profit from MJ sale, aside from tax revenue. They already have the resources for manufacturing, distribution and sale, so the startup costs would be small for them. Is there some economic reason that makes tobacco more profitable than marijuana? Or is it fear of public backlash?

 

[ThaGrandCow]

If week gets legalized, a lot of people are going to be too high to go out and buy cigarettes. It's the sheer economics man.

 

[crumpet19]

tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
If week gets legalized, a lot of people are going to be too high to go out and buy cigarettes. It's the sheer economics man.

whats that gotta do with weed?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

 

[her209]

Because you can grow and roll weed easier than you can grow and roll tobacco.

 

[silent tone]

Because you can grow and roll weed easier than you can grow and roll tobacco.

please explain

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

IMO, you can use cannabis responsibly, just like you can use alcohol responsibly. 🙂

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

Yikes. You always seem to be a nice guy MichaelD, but your opinion on pot bugs me. Someone who gets addicted to non-physically-addictive substances such as pot has their own issues, and you can't blame pot for that, any more than you can blame gambling for gambling addiction. There are just some messed up people out there, and they're gonna get addicted to one thing or another.

"Weed is not a bad thing?" - it's not that horrible, and more importantly, experimenting with it is relatively safe, considering you will not become physically addicted for the rest of your life.

Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical addiction in the context of a substance being "good" or "bad", because mental addiction is a trait of the person, while physical addiction is a trait of the substance.

And congrats for not smoking pot, but it's no reason to go around telling people who do smoke that they are somehow total idiots and immature. Over the ages and to this day, people of all ages have used and abused drugs of all kinds. As I mentioned in another thread, some incredibly successful people are drunks, cokeheads, or methamaticians (forgot who mentioned that word 😎 ). NO, that does not mean that these drugs are good in any way, nor am I implying that. I am implying that your maturity or intelligence are not dependant upon what drugs you use. If I remember correctly, MichaelD, you are a drinker, IMO you have no room to go around bashing potheads, both habits are arguably pretty stupid.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: istallion

Because you can grow and roll weed easier than you can grow and roll tobacco.

please explain

Have you ever tried to grow tobacco and roll a cigarette?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

Yikes. You always seem to be a nice guy MichaelD, but your opinion on pot bugs me. Someone who gets addicted to non-physically-addictive substances such as pot has their own issues, and you can't blame pot for that, any more than you can blame gambling for gambling addiction. There are just some messed up people out there, and they're gonna get addicted to one thing or another.

"Weed is not a bad thing?" - it's not that horrible, and more importantly, experimenting with it is relatively safe, considering you will not become physically addicted for the rest of your life.

Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical addiction in the context of a substance being "good" or "bad", because mental addiction is a trait of the person, while physical addiction is a trait of the substance.

And congrats for not smoking pot, but it's no reason to go around telling people who do smoke that they are somehow total idiots and immature. Over the ages and to this day, people of all ages have used and abused drugs of all kinds. As I mentioned in another thread, some incredibly successful people are drunks, cokeheads, or methamaticians (forgot who mentioned that word 😎 ). NO, that does not mean that these drugs are good in any way, nor am I implying that. I am implying that your maturity or intelligence are not dependant upon what drugs you use. If I remember correctly, MichaelD, you are a drinker, IMO you have no room to go around bashing potheads, both habits are arguably pretty stupid.

Fair enough. 🙂 For once, a logical argument has been made. 🙂 *tips hat and leaves*

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

Yikes. You always seem to be a nice guy MichaelD, but your opinion on pot bugs me. Someone who gets addicted to non-physically-addictive substances such as pot has their own issues, and you can't blame pot for that, any more than you can blame gambling for gambling addiction. There are just some messed up people out there, and they're gonna get addicted to one thing or another.

"Weed is not a bad thing?" - it's not that horrible, and more importantly, experimenting with it is relatively safe, considering you will not become physically addicted for the rest of your life.

Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical addiction in the context of a substance being "good" or "bad", because mental addiction is a trait of the person, while physical addiction is a trait of the substance.

And congrats for not smoking pot, but it's no reason to go around telling people who do smoke that they are somehow total idiots and immature. Over the ages and to this day, people of all ages have used and abused drugs of all kinds. As I mentioned in another thread, some incredibly successful people are drunks, cokeheads, or methamaticians (forgot who mentioned that word 😎 ). NO, that does not mean that these drugs are good in any way, nor am I implying that. I am implying that your maturity or intelligence are not dependant upon what drugs you use. If I remember correctly, MichaelD, you are a drinker, IMO you have no room to go around bashing potheads, both habits are arguably pretty stupid.

Fair enough. 🙂 For once, a logical argument has been made. 🙂 *tips hat and leaves*

0wned

fair and square ... Logic? In YAMT? /aneurysm

- M4H

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
If week gets legalized, a lot of people are going to be too high to go out and buy cigarettes. It's the sheer economics man.

You are an idiot.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

Yikes. You always seem to be a nice guy MichaelD, but your opinion on pot bugs me. Someone who gets addicted to non-physically-addictive substances such as pot has their own issues, and you can't blame pot for that, any more than you can blame gambling for gambling addiction. There are just some messed up people out there, and they're gonna get addicted to one thing or another.

"Weed is not a bad thing?" - it's not that horrible, and more importantly, experimenting with it is relatively safe, considering you will not become physically addicted for the rest of your life.

Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical addiction in the context of a substance being "good" or "bad", because mental addiction is a trait of the person, while physical addiction is a trait of the substance.

And congrats for not smoking pot, but it's no reason to go around telling people who do smoke that they are somehow total idiots and immature. Over the ages and to this day, people of all ages have used and abused drugs of all kinds. As I mentioned in another thread, some incredibly successful people are drunks, cokeheads, or methamaticians (forgot who mentioned that word 😎 ). NO, that does not mean that these drugs are good in any way, nor am I implying that. I am implying that your maturity or intelligence are not dependant upon what drugs you use. If I remember correctly, MichaelD, you are a drinker, IMO you have no room to go around bashing potheads, both habits are arguably pretty stupid.

Pwned😉

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Spac3d

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
If week gets legalized, a lot of people are going to be too high to go out and buy cigarettes. It's the sheer economics man.

You are an idiot.

And your sense of sarcasm sucks 😉

 

[xuanman]

Originally posted by: istallion
To me they seem to be the largest organizations to profit from MJ sale, aside from tax revenue. They already have the resources for manufacturing, distribution and sale, so the startup costs would be small for them. Is there some economic reason that makes tobacco more profitable than marijuana? Or is it fear of public backlash?

i am not sure if i completely buy the economic argument...but it'd be interesting to take a look at whether marijuana and tobacco would be subsititute goods.

i think the more likely answer is that it just isn't politically feasible for tobacco companies to take a pro-marijuana stance when their political lobby is built on such a deeply conservative base. conservatives and pot smoking doesn't go together very well.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Because getting land, supplies of marijuana seeds, and harvesting the plant,also that tobacco will grow in almost any soil, where as weed will not, makes it more expensive to grow.

I don't smoke either, but if they're gonna say cigs are ok to sell, they should legalize and regulate pot just lke alcohol. Imagine how much more $$$ the gov could make if pot was legalized and taxed. (plus the taxes on all the munchies. lol)
Only thing is that it couldn't be allowed to be smoked in resturaunts and public places, but scores of pot bars(like in amsterdam) could be opened and sell all the different types of weed.

 

[IGBT]

Huge litigation hazzard. And they're already up to their arse in legal aligators.

 

[Siddhartha]

The tobacco industry is having a hard enough time selling a legal product without going out of their way for more by being associated with an illegal substance.

 

[Maleficus]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: crumpet19
tobacco is addictive... marijuana is not soo addictive.

I'll bet that rock you just crawled out from under is still suspended in midair. Climb back under while you still can.

weed has no physicial addiction. its all mental


tabacco on the other hand has a physicial addiction

go back to your rock

So, what is your message? Weed is not a bad thing? Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical? I climbed out from under my rock more than 10 years ago. Someday, hopefully, you'll do the same.

Yikes. You always seem to be a nice guy MichaelD, but your opinion on pot bugs me. Someone who gets addicted to non-physically-addictive substances such as pot has their own issues, and you can't blame pot for that, any more than you can blame gambling for gambling addiction. There are just some messed up people out there, and they're gonna get addicted to one thing or another.

"Weed is not a bad thing?" - it's not that horrible, and more importantly, experimenting with it is relatively safe, considering you will not become physically addicted for the rest of your life.

Mental addiction is not as compelling as physical addiction in the context of a substance being "good" or "bad", because mental addiction is a trait of the person, while physical addiction is a trait of the substance.

And congrats for not smoking pot, but it's no reason to go around telling people who do smoke that they are somehow total idiots and immature. Over the ages and to this day, people of all ages have used and abused drugs of all kinds. As I mentioned in another thread, some incredibly successful people are drunks, cokeheads, or methamaticians (forgot who mentioned that word 😎 ). NO, that does not mean that these drugs are good in any way, nor am I implying that. I am implying that your maturity or intelligence are not dependant upon what drugs you use. If I remember correctly, MichaelD, you are a drinker, IMO you have no room to go around bashing potheads, both habits are arguably pretty stupid.

Fair enough. 🙂 For once, a logical argument has been made. 🙂 *tips hat and leaves*

I find this hilarious since you state no logical reasons or arguements for your stance simply state that its stupid and people who do it are stupid and we should all crawl back under our rocks.

 

I like weed.

 

[Howard]

MichaelD is not a nice guy, I don't know where you've picked up that idea.

🙁

 

[Maleficus]

Originally posted by: Howard
MichaelD is not a nice guy, I don't know where you've picked up that idea.

🙁

Nah for the most part he seems like a cool guy to me, He seems to have had some bad experiences or know people who have with weed though :\