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As the marijuana legalization movement builds up steam, prohibitionists are grasping at straws to defend an increasingly untenable status quo. The most recent argument for prohibition comes from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who claimed that marijuana was “infinitely worse” than tobacco.
Harper has hasn’t tried to hide his views on marijuana. In 2013, he sent out a mailer demonizing Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s support for marijuana legalization. The mailer claimed legalization would allow children to gain access to marijuana. This is highly misleading. Canadian teenagers already lead the world in per capita cannabis consumption. But his claim that marijuana is worse than tobacco is even more absurd, and it will hurt him in the polls.
Are there some dangers to marijuana smoking? Yes, of course. There are also dangers to tobacco use. But this does not justify prohibition of either substance.
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