@feckineejit:

Um....tobacco is a plant. Nicotine is the drug contained in that plant.

Pot and tobacco are both naturally occurring plants. Just because one is more addictive than the other doesn't change the fact that both are basically just dried leaves and buds.

@Out2gtcha:

Pot slows people down. It delays reaction times. They might drive slower, but that also slam on the brakes later than a sober person when a child runs in front of their car. Pot dulls your sense of judgement as well. While you may not get into a bar fight, do you regularly eat a 5lb bag of Dorritos when sober?

Also, 1 joint deposits the same amount of tar in your lungs that 4 cigarettes do.

People get lung cancer from pot, just like they do from smoking.

"I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it."

- Genesis 1:29

Tobacco is a plant that bears seeds.

Now, having said all that, if the government were to grow pot and sell joints in packs, like cigarettes, and tax them, and put the same restrictions on pot as they do on booze, we would have no federal deficit in 2 years, and taxes could be lowered.

The smoking lamp is lit, people. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!