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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Money Dannie, money is basically responsible for tobacco being off limits to review. Only in recent years has tobacco been reveled as the demon it really is but not so many years ago the actually claimed the smoking relived coughing. the US government often requires that third world countries allow duty free or much favored importation of American tobacco (I live in the tobacco belt). It's really sad but it makes the US government the largest drug dealer in the world. As for alcohol, it has been used since time unknown, some say bread making was an offshoot of beer making so it is ingrained in human society at a very basic level.
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Marijuana has been a HUGE part of society for a very, very long time, possibly close to the amount of time we've been 'drinking'.
Government corruption is fuelled by money; I wonder if utopia would be a moneyless society.