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Comment by pixl97

7 hours ago

As the US found out, alcohol is very very hard to ban because it is very very easy to make.

Weed and tobacco are also very easy to make. They literally grow on trees[1].

[1] Technically, herbaceous plants.

  • Really in the case of tobacco, (almost) no one is going to grow it. It's a massive pain in the ass when most people are addicted to the nicotine. Synthetic nicotine in vapes are what would be black marketed these days.

  • Weed and tobacco smoking are also easy to detect by people who don't want secondhand smoke. And if it were illegal, they could report it.