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Apples and Oranges or Hypocrisy? part 3

Posamari
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It's a tough decision. I've been a tobacco user for most of my life, and it's done so much harm than good. I would actually prefer tobacco to be illegal.  I'm voting YES on Prop 56. Raise the tax 2.00.  If this was up for vote, say, 2 yrs ago, when I wasn't motivated to quit, I would have voted NO.  My only hesitation is will cigs be sold more on the black market when this is raised?  I'm a non smoker now, so why should I care?  Good question.

Prop 64.  This one I'm really struggling with.  People are going to use pot , legal or not. I do believe it is much less detrimental than alcohol or tobacco,  more people use or have used it --- including me--- I'm just an old flower child by design--- and it needs to be brought out of that Back Alley mentality. However, I do not want to see big Corp and tobacco companies take over, which I don't see how it can be avoided. I'm a supporter of independent businesses and farmers, gardening is one of my passions. I owned a small personal gardening business in Ohio for nearly 13 years and I'm a support your local farmer gal and environmental activist.  Tobacco companies big revenues comes from exports to other countries. America has and is becoming a smoke free country compared to Europe and Asia. So I'm sure as soon as the banks/ Wall St. get on board, their greedy hands will be all over the marijuana industry. I also want to see it sold in a professional, restricted manner. No selling joints at your local 7-11 or in the seedy cig smoke shops that are all over California.  I'm also concerned too of producing a decade of stoners.  The case for this is ppl are already smoking it so that concern is moot. Makes sense .... to a degree. If Prop 64 passes , the legal age for purchase would be 21, same as legal age to buy tobacco here in California.

 I'd rather support ppl smoking marijuana than smoking tobacco or using alcohol, but I don't want to see the small farmer being replaced by BIG Tobacco companies. Tough decision. California as a whole is anti tobacco but is very accepting of Marijuana, which is kind of weird, smoke is smoke is smoke.

This political  rumination is brought to you by Posamari so she keeps her mind and hands busy instead of giving into tobacco cravings and thoughts.

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