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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll fuck it all up. They should be absolutely prohibited from participating in the Cannabis industry, after their egregious behavior in the tobacco industry. They should have been completely put out of business, except too many people too addicted to just cut off manufacturing.

Today, less than 10% of people reported smoking a cigarette in the previous year. When it's down to less than 5%, the big tobacco companies should be closed. Highly regulated independent tobacco companies can try to survive, but the big companies that hid the dangers of cigarettes, and strongly denied the dangers, while simultaneously making their products more addicting, more addicting quicker, and harder to quit, need to be punished by going out of business. They are one of the most evil industries that have ever existed.