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In reply to the discussion: What no one is telling you about Washington's marijuana legalization [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)In these cities, smoking is prohibited in parks, greenbelts and along public thoroughfares (sidewalks?).
IMO, the cigarette prohibitionists are trying to fit tobacco into a scheme that resembles marijuana's scheme (or what marijuana's new "legalized" scheme may become). That will surely be the desires of prohibitionists here in Austin, judging from their high-dollar ads.
The frontier of prohibition (tobacco/ganja) will be "getting at" users (the pipe dream of all prohibitionists). That is, to get at the homes of users, using, perhaps the bureaus of child protective services in an effort to restrict/punish users where a "child" lives under the same roof. There is evidence suggesting this as a future course of action when one considers the ganja prohis' efforts to get children to "turn in" their parents 20+ years ago. Very disruptive and damaging to families.
"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" -- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
Chrome Yellow (1921)