I didn't realize that. Welcome to the club.
Yes, I find that terribly hypocritical. I also find it hypocritical that conservatives want to keep tobacco cheap and easy to get, while imposing draconian punishments for using or selling pot.
The law should be that you can smoke whatever you want, so long as it is outdoors and downwind, where I don't have to smell it.
So, you would remove taxes on cigarettes and doobies? Don't both cause some expenses for the rest of us? What's wrong with having the users pay their own way?
We would have to raise taxes on tobacco a lot before it costs nearly as much as other drugs.
But you're right about taxes: The power to tax is the power to destroy. That's why taxation, like drugs, have to be used in moderation.
Really? I think those days are a long way in the past, if indeed they ever really existed.