Meanwhile, also this week, the Justice Department ruled that the punitive damages assessed against tobacco companies (for deliberately spiking their cigarettes to turn as many Americans into addicts as possible) should be reduced from $130 billion to only $10 billion.
But consider that every year 435,000 people in the US die from tobacco use. (Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.) And, conversely, that there is not a single documented case of anyone dying from marijuana use.
So what, pray tell, could be the rationale for the geniuses on the Supreme Court to rule that allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana for medicinal purposes would be hazardous to our health?
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