Ravenwood - 07/19/04 06:15 AM
The Senate approved FDA oversight of tobacco products, and if approved we will take a giant leap toward tobacco prohibition.
Tobacco is neither a food nor a drug yet big government Democrats and Republicans are prepared to grant the FDA sweeping regulatory powers over the recreational plant.
Category: Pleasure Police
Comments (3) top link me
If tobacco isn't a drug, then marijuana isn't a drug. Tobacco is a nicotine delivery system, just as marijuana is a THC delivery system.
Having said that, does the FDA regulate alcohol?
One more step down the slippery slope.
Posted by: Kevin Baker at July 19, 2004 10:08 AMThe FDA does not regulate alcohol or marijuana, and in my opinion should not regulate tobacco. Marijuana is not a drug in the FDA sense of the term, as it is not used for medicinal purposes. (not at the federal level any way.) If they grant marijuana prescription rights, I could see the FDA having a dog in the fight. But right now it's classified as an illicit substance and is regulated by the DEA.
Of those three, however, tobacco is the least mind affecting. Nobody was ever killed because someone was driving under the influence of cigarettes. You never hear about people beating their wife because they got all hopped up on nicotine.
This is a big government power grab, plain and simple.
Posted by: Ravenwood at July 19, 2004 11:08 AMThe FDA shouldn't exist at all. The good it does is dwarfed by the evil it commits.
A private consortium analogous to Underwriters Laboratories would be adequate to inform us of pharmaceutical risks.
Posted by: Brett at July 19, 2004 5:00 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
