Late Wednesday, Brown signed the bill raising the age for tobacco use, including vaping, to 21, the Associated Press reports. He also vetoed a bill that would have asked voters to divert tobacco taxes to pay for the health expenses of those with tobacco-related ailments, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Source: NPR
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday May 06 2016, @04:15AM
You make a most basic error in logic and perception. You presume a free society is an option. It certainly isn't what we have now and it isn't anything that is close enough to the Overton Window to see with the Hubble Telescope. Many policy choices that would make sense in a free country are insanity in ours.
And if one were attempting to move our current welfare socialism to a free country, legalizing drugs is an... ahem, interesting first step. You should first be attempting to create a people worthy of the blessings of liberty again instead of helping them debauch themselves further with a drug known to make the users uncaring and pliable. A strong, self reliant, responsible people probably could handle the occasional indulgence in pot much like they handled alcohol and it would make sense to allow them to handle it, also allowing them to deal with the consequences.
But reread the article we are debating. We are banning tobacco because we have a nanny state who worries about the medical costs it must bear if it permits its subjects to smoke. If you have a plan to smash that, there are a lot of us who would like to hear it.