So, yet again, the alcohol and tobacco corporations have come out with another pronouncement that the earth mother's sweetest offering to her deluded ape-children is bad for us.

Yes, according to some pseudo-scientific study funded by god-knows-which-shadow-arm of the corporate oligarchs controlling all aspects of the media, smoking a single joint is more harmful than smoking 5 cigarettes.

Sure. Inhaling smoke of any kind is bad for you. But look at it this way. Smoking a joint of marijuana gets you really baked. Smoking 5 cigarettes might calm you down or make you feel like a badass, but the buzz is negligible and hardly worth the risk. Indeed, I would suggest that the so-called experts who are decrying the hydroponic chronic should spend a little bit less time pointing out the obvious and a little bit more time encouraging tobacco smokers to smoke a single spliff rather than a quarter pack of darts.

Or, perhaps we could actually take the plunge and decriminalize marijuana to the point where what we now refer to as joints would actually have filters. Perhaps this would make them only as harmful but five times as enjoyable as ciggies?

Regardless, the man has spoken. And when we heard that cigarettes are deadly, everyone basically quit in a hurry, right?