Ron Paul on Tobacco Prohibition


	Ron Paul on Tobacco Prohibition

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6-24-2009 8:30 AM

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6-24-2009 8:43 AM

willhelm

I hate smoking. I hate smelling it and seeing cigarette litter. However, controlling this product is nothing more than state-ist authoritarianism. We should be legalizing marijuana ( not that I approve of it ), but the time, energy and money spent controlling it is wasteful and useless.

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