Marijuana: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Madlad

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You’re a madlad

Megamind in the flesh right here

Genius. Now I just need to find someone named Greg to become friends because I have to see this in person.

hey he said we should change this mess for greg. :P

Greg Duarte no one who actually smokes weed calls it pot 😂

yes they do lol

Kyle Mueller lol no

yea they really don't, I was going for verbal rhythm but came off as a fraud instead

bruh right?? 😂 buncha nincompoops. They we're SUPPOSED to be an accurate representation of our collective and varied values as a people, and now it seems not hardly a damn one of them has a clue about anything in everyday life, and they're legislating and enforcing to force all of US to THEIR paradigm instead. I've lost good friends to that trash and almost lost family to opiates as well. Havent had to go through that loss a single time from cannabis though! One of the very very few decent things I will give Donny T any semblance of credit for doing was decriminalization. Who woulda thunk it 😂🤦

Here's alcohol!

the government helped make an unbearable world and then chose to ban one of the safest ways people deal with it

Google the guy the government has been sending 300 joints every month since the 80’s.

@@skyteus damn it I was gonna say that

@fjf sjdnx in some countries HBO isn't available

Bring back tales from the crypt and I'd pay for it too!!! Gonna buy Hulu just for them bringing back new Archer.

They don’t put the whole show. They put the main story... which is still awesome.

They didn't pay Chappelle a cent so they can afford it

I’d definitely get HBO Now if I were you, fair pricing and phenomenal show choices

All things considered, probably not the highest amount he's spent on one-shot jokes :P

@@Astraeus.. A Raisin Monsoon, that's dragon money for you.

@Max Richards And soon to be the purchase of the Philly Phanatic 👀

Duke Valefor yeah lmao remember the wax presidents😂

To be fair, it's probably worth more than that to fans on the show now.

Greg!

Greg Cottrell Ello, Greg! 😂😎

Thanks Greg

Didn't take me long to find a Greg in the comments :P .

Greg Cottrell yeah, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for?!!

That's really awesome man, right on!! 👊⚡

This is beautiful ❤

My exact thought

@fjf sjdnx I'm pretty sure 35volts was just making a joke. I actually had the exact same thought during that line.

Real New Yorkers like the Mets

Why? they do suck.

from my experience most New Yorkers don't like the Yankees anyway

He was talking to you Greg. He can see you through your screen, Greg. He's always watching, Greg. Always watching.

You just made that account so you could say you're greg?

I was looking for this comment +1

+Levi Schlafley i was looking for this comment..

Yo I'm high af and my name is Greg too 😧

Same

Me to

Don't hunt Gregs, they've been through enough.

Step 1: fly to the UK. Step 2: once you get out of Heathrow, head into Soho in central London, find a dealer. Buy weed, hope it's decent. Step 3: wait until morning, perhaps in a hotel. Find where your nearest Gregg's bakery is. Sleep Step 4: smoke, head to Gregg's, buy a stuffed slice, successful hunting! Step 5: enjoy that profit?

Im doung it

Came to the comments to say something along the same lines, as I've been that woman albeit not a wife, but the point stands.

That is a very very good point...

They say it like this " he's grumpy when he's out of weed, or is running out and doesn't have enough to buy more" ... or So I have been told by a MFT

DAMN! That is brilliant! These are the kinds of points that every single rule should be built upon!!!!!! Put that next to the FDA calling marijuana "safer than aspirin" and you are pretty close to making marijuana mandatory. Thank you!

It's not that brillant as I'll bet anything that that phrase has been said, and so I checked and found 5 right away (you have to remember no matter how stupid some reason for anything humans have used it and said it out loud somewhere at some point).......soooooo, funny, but not accurate. But compared to alcohol there is no question which is exponentially worse

Greg, you're not high, at all. John is talking to you and only you, no one else.

Well are u a hedgehog

He called you by both your names, Greg the Stoner and Roland the hedgehog, the question really is....are you a human named Greg? or a hedgehog named Roland.....what if like you are like, both, man....

Listen to what the universe is trying to tell you

I went to comments just to find Greg. I was more than pleased!

But were you eating pizza?

@@Dragonlover553 Greg, answer the mans question.

WELP

Dragonlover553 assume the answer is yes if there's no response it's probably the most common thing political figures do to dodge and yet answer the question

I like how grxg h is stating very clearly that he's *a* Greg. Not just Greg, not *the* Greg, but *a* Greg.

The comment is the best. 🇨🇦

Wait, your name isn’t really Dingo D. Manhunter?

Your name is Dingo, not Greg

Be me: chilling with the homies on the porch. It’s been a long day at the Boston harbor shipyard. Smoking the green out of Thomas’ cob pipe. Hear voices. they’re British. Oh god oh fuck. Samuel hands you your rifled musket. You’re starting to feel it. Everything is slowing down, I am calm, holding my musket steady. I see 5 red coats round the corner. The hammer ignites the powder, sending a slug down my rifled barrel. The hit is clean and deadly. My compatriots’ shots strike true as well. One lobster back remains, he drops his musket and runs. This was our cue, we disappear into the alleys to evade reinforcements. We will fight another day.

I'm proud to be your 420th upvote.

My friend, who is a nurse, CLAPPED at that! Also.... I'm a Greg....

TheRiku57 That's awesome on both counts. :)

TheRiku57 are you from zwooper

No, you are Riku.

That's not the actual quote.

He wore a tan suit once. Never forget.

@@bryanekers3472 Don't forget asking for Dijon mustard on a hotdog.

He also didn’t wear a jacket in the Oval Office which is something Reagan never did

@@ADRgman You got me curious, so I had to look that one up. It turns out Snopes has an entry falsifying it. I'm a little surprised anyone would make such a ridiculous claim, giving Snopes something to debunk in the first place.

We all miss those days

Way to go! I support you! Glad you got rid of all those poisonous pills and went with a natural remedy. [edit to fix typo]

Congratulations and thank you for your service!

Congrats dude what are you studying to be?

Congrats!!! Here in WI a veteran ended up dying as a result of his VA doctor prescribing too many opioid meds! He was a younger man with a wife and children. Being a vet myself, I found this whole thing extremely horrid. Prayers to his family 😇🙇‍♂️

Good on you.

can't stop laughing over this

Bruh, weed doesn't give you visual hallucinations...

Not anything vivid, but it is certainly possible to experience minor hallucinations when you are stoned (even without edibles). It is psychoactive after all.

That DOES sound terrifying

I have never met no one in my 28 years that hallucinates because of cannabis.

It's also a lawful form of evil being committed against legal marijuana growers.

It's how they caught Al Capone, iirc.

To be clear, though: The government cannot prosecute you for "doing crimes"; they have to actually specify what they're prosecuting you for. And the IRS does not require you to tell them *how* you made money illegally, just *that* you have money illegally. So you're not actually confessing to anything in a legal sense. That being said, if you acknowledge a large amount of illegal income on your tax return, that will definitely increase law enforcement interest in you.

"Don't break the law while you're breaking the law". Some crimes may not be around forever, and some crimes may get overlooked, but if you break a crime like tax evasion, that shit sticks

Yeah I feel that

It feels even weirder now. Like those old sitcoms where half the "live studio audience " would be dead by now

After a year, yeahhhhhh

BiggTeddyMikey. I'm moving to Canada tomorrow, today if I can pack fast enough

Well that's because you're Canadian, the rest of us are trying figure our shit out with varying degrees of success.

BiggTeddyMikey - Wow ... thank you for sharing this. That's what it means to be rational about it.

They actually deliver Medical cannabis in Canada!? That is the dream of so many pot heads..

Yes ... but he forgot to mention the hardship of having 20 strains to chose from, edibles and other delivery systems ... and they can take as long as two days to get it to you ... just some more of the extreme hardships we Canadians must endure ....

J.L Hunter but he won't be. John will return, and Greg shall feel his doorknob Harry Potter magic soon

WILL IT THOUGH!?

NO BECAUSE THIS IS NOT HIS SAFE HOME, THIS IS NOT HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE!

swat team is on its way

We got him. Send the dogs, we found Greg.

It's more profitable now to be a tobacco farmer than it has been in the past

I grew out of smoking pot years ago. But I would sooner hang out with potheads over alcoholics any day of the week.

It's corporate already. They have more care for the plant though

Hemp. Not marijuana

That is a correct statement

I won’t smoke it even if it is legal and I _still_ think it’s asinine that it’s illegal.

It helped my brother out quite a lot, we both suffer from ptsd, and as a teenager got addicted to drugs to try and cope (i chose food instead) eventually he tried pot and its helped him a lot

Becca Taylor I hope you guys are doing alright

@@EllaAngeli we are, thank you

*_Wait what_*

Haha that was soooo funny 😂😂😂

Loooooool what a fucking joke. Oh shit your serious? I've been slinging Tylenol for years!!!

S1 contains shrooms and lsd too??? What. Why are Heroin and ecstasy the only drugs to be worried about in the highest category

Yeah and since some narcotic meds like hydromorphone is actually stronger than the heroine.

Honestly, I've always just ignored it. Controlling my seizures has always been a higher priority than what the idiots who organized all that bull think. Like the veteran said at 9:50, I'll be a criminal, fuck it. If not having to worry about whether or not I'm going to wake up in the floor bleeding from my chin because I had a seizure while I was asleep and fell off the bed and busted my chin on the bedside table makes me Scarface, say hello to my little friend!

not to mention how they dont mind at all taking the money from big pharma who create drugs supposed to heal but go untested for long-term effects and can be known to cause more problems, and more chemical drugs. butttt.. that money is all good. pot money is no no.

You should try and use HSBC as an example. They launder drug money all the time, AND they got busted red handed, AND they only got fined 1% of what they laundered. AND they still launder money to this day!

yeah that's dumb logic you are a business owner

Nobody deserves to lose their rights.

William Roberts Where was the kids when she was forced to be taken away from her parents cause they smoked a plant? Oh yea, that asshole took them away

Fuck that. Take a person's family and they've got nothing else to lose. Go down shooting every worker in sight. See how it feels to take them away from their own families.

@William Roberts Really? Not even someone who killed your entire family and tortured you for years?

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weed is illegal in a lot more places dumbass. the only western country to make it legal is Canada and that's recent

It's almost like America is a garbage country with evil people running it.

@@Jlk2000x yes the garbage country that immigrants love to go to. i bet youve never been there

@@Marita287 they can just go to other countries lol. America has the highest immigration rate

@@Marita287 i know america is flawed. This video is on weed which is illegal in most countries so only complaining about america is pathetic.

He may be biased. That doesn't make him wrong.

@cak01vej Is that true or a joke

@cak01vej that's awesome! Why have I not heard of this before?

what the hell? Sm64 commenting on this? huh, who knew

This is a bit of shock seeing you here.

StoneMountain64 haya

Hell yeah stone SM64!!!

Legal weed in georgia

Jaikee Berlin its illegal because it is so good to be true. Cannabis is proven to destroy cancer cells. They doesnt want it to get legal so people with cancer can give money.

Hælmers 432 a gun will kill cancer in a petri dish you twit.

Hælmers 432 spot on. Rick Simpson oil for the win

You only got a fine?! If you tried to cross into America with pot, I'm pretty sure they'd just shoot you.

_"It's the same here in Europe."_ Not really, especially not in Germany and most certainly not in Bavaria. Sure we don't have people spending the rest of their life in prison over weed, but there's basically been zero progress on the legalization front. The recent change, to allow for "medical use", is something that was supposedly already in effect for years, the only reason this latest change in law happened is because the German version of the supreme court gave out more and more licenses for sick people to grow their own weed. The German government couldn't tolerate that, so this recent change in law happened and with that, they also removed the license for growing your own. Now people will be forced to pay inflated prices for weed at pharmacies which can't even tell them if it's sativa or indica their getting. The vast majority of German physicians and pharmacies are utterly clueless about the differences in strains and cannabinoids, heck pretty much the only research done is on how cannabis is triggering psychosis, basically regurgitating outdated reefer-madness cliches. The German drug-commissioner is still staunchly anti-weed, while at the same time proudly tweeting pictures of her booze collection, fucking drunk hypocrites.

Alcohol has one of the few detox procceses that can actually kill you. Rehab from pot is hard, but the Delirium Tremens are a nightmare from what I heard

@@arturofernandez4058 ,,,,

True ! However, people know the dangers of alcohol more than the dangers of weed. People talk aboutit like it's completely safe. And sure, smoking at a party from time to time won't kill you, but driving while high is extremely dangerous, and using too much can cause loss of focus, loss of appetite, depression, and sometimes even psychiatric disorders. We should advise people to be careful about it the same way we do with alcohol

@@islembb8899 we smoke a lot weed here but no one evet had these side effects

@@islembb8899 What? Where'd you hear _that_ from?

Hey Greg, give me a slice of that pizza

Gregory Zarkhin sorry for your loss greg

dude? dude... duuuuuude :-)

dude? dude... duuuuuude :-)

Whoaaaa! Brooo! I was doing like you know okay until you said you were freaking out now I'm like totally freaking out to bro it's like totally scary it's just I don't know what to do okay with maybe I don't know I might just not do anything okay

Guns, alcohol, prescription drugs you name it!

Thanks Obama, for refueling the drug war and raiding more legal medical marijuana dispensaries than all other presidents combined. What a great leader for the black community sending more minorities to prison than even Clinton did. Really good job democratic socialists of America

Zanman ....and you’re okay with trump?

@@Quarkee nice deflect loser

@@HeyYoFabels I'm just asking dipshit

The problem is drug manufacturers can not patent pot so they can not make a lot of money of it.

@@pouncepounce7417 problem? where? i only see the best possible outcome with that

@@jackkahn2532 The problem is you need research to find out how it works, how the best dosage is, what side effects are and so on. I am all for "grow your own medicine" but there is plenty that can go wrong with that, nature has a lot of remedies that work, if applied the right way, that can cause havoc down the line if done slightly wrong, like for example, loss of life. Problem is, research needs money, if you cannot patent it the private sector will not do it, so the gouvernment needs to fund the research (or we need to collect a few millions over go fund me....) I would use myself cannabis if i see the medical need, sure, but cannabis has a lot of potential to develop cures outside of what we know today, and it has side effects too we need to know about (no medical drug that has an effect comes without side effect, that is kinda an iron rule in medicine)

Pounce Pounce you cant die from weed at most it will damage your lungs a little. Smoke a spliff and fall asleep bada boom bada bing.

@@notplayboicactus5700 True, given it is an natural plant and compound though means you will have trouble getting an medical drug based on it, patenting and having an huge revenue is very hard to accomplish, so not interesting for pharmaceuticals. (And there is a lot of hints that it would be an beneficial medical drug)

The United States legalized Cannabis Sativa to win World War II: catalog.archives.gov/id/1682 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bIxFhYVv_Gk.html www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3652 www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3174 crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL32725

Here in California, in a tiny town on the central coast, I have three dispensaries within a 10 minute drive. One of the big issues of the anti-weed crowd, before we legalized, was that kids would be sneaking in and be buying most of the weed. From my observations, the average age of the people I see buying weed is about 50, with LOTS of people much older. No kids running around that I could see. Don't let the anti-weed folks pull that argument on you if your state is contemplating legalizing. My bong is sitting on the living room table, and I don't worry about opening my front door if someone knocks. It was silly that it was ever illegal. The Feds need to catch up, but with the old clowns in charge, they much prefer to take large donations from Big Pharma to keep it illegal.

Weed is so mainstream these days, it's unusual if one hasn't at least tried it.

its exactly like what happened after alcohol prohibition laws got changed as well

There’s not even an argument. It should be legalized and regulated. It’s not even interesting to talk about anymore. I don’t even care for it really. Just one of those things.

Greg Homan holy fuck

LMAOOO

Marijuana own your brain Lol...keep smoking until you fell like superman...ha3

Hey Greg let me get a slice of that pizza! lol

Greg Homan Damnit Greg!

It's not a normal story, that's why they did a documentary about it.

Might have had prior record, been on probation or parole. I don't think judicial ever does that in the U.S.

Carlos Castro there is another John Oliver video about mandatory minimums. Check it out.

SHIIIT....man that isnt nothing. Chilton county law enforcement busts low level dealers, grab the product, get paid federal, then dump it at a "local plant" down here that is a drug ring front. They hen get a LARGE cut. our sheriff( ex ) just got bailed out. brother was in lockup with him, ref will be below. I have seen fam/friends go to jail after 1 of MANY of their crooked ass troopers planted ice or something big enough to fuck them. One instance over the cop getting payback for his brother who got his ass beat in a bar fight. If you like getting high, STAY THE FUCK FAR FAR AWAY FROM BAMA www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/02/former_clanton_police_chief_in.html

Shadilay absolutely...

@Cameron MitchellBell yeah, it is tho

majiks s no it really isn’t all that true

@@imlonelypleasehelp5443 Nixon was a xenophobe

Amberlance I mean yea, but he didn’t let it affect his decisions all too much. If anything I’d give he’s a racist, but even then black leaders also supported the hard drug laws.

@@imlonelypleasehelp5443 you HAVE to be high to make a statement like that

ok but what about someone who just casually drinks amd isnt an alcoholic?

same. but some of the pothead i hang out with, and have been for years, engage in some serious peer pressure to smoke weed. i've said no 100 times, no joke. and this one girl is a real judgemental bitch about it. i grew out of it. its not for me. i came to that conclusion 8 years ago. and i've been involved in growing it almost every year for over a decade. so yeah, im pretty cool and accepting of weed. im not a dick about it.

The sad part is, if weed was legal a lot of alcoholics would likely switch over to pot instead. Seems like a far better deal, better for your health and less likely to be an asshole.

@@tps64 It's adorable that you think there's really a difference.

Joseph Kony there is though. The fuck?

greg hurley get your shit together greg

Dammit Greg

greg hurley The council of Greg's have stepped too far.

Stop fucking things up for everyone else Greg.

Another Greg here...they're onto us.

👏👏👏

fidorover I award you four internetz.

fidorover you won

IT's ok Greg. You know what they say. The british cannot hear your thoughts. Cause they can't understand your accent

fidorover 10/10 :D

Greg Bennett I believe it is

hahahahaha ... I know right , that freaked me out for a second :)

no greg its not

I concur, but swear to gawd I really thought he was talking to me.

It was close enough for me, my names Craig lol

Nicole McMullen Jails are becoming privatized and are big business now. They require inmates to run profitably, who provide very cheap or free labor. As long as this sits on a federal level, they can use it to fill the quotas.

Wtf you want to help people? You socialist commie scumbag.

Or we could sent it to the military. Hmm, yes, I think we will do that.

You say they should use the money to help people instead of locking them up? What a strange notion you're... wait, someone already did the sarcastically indignant schtick here. D'oh! But yeah... Cannabis is not 100% safe, but neither is tobacco (worse overall, IIRC) or coffee or alcohol or even substances like sugar in excessive quantity. The important thing is to educate people so they know the risks of each substance and can avoid excessive use... as well as discourage it in their peers and family members.

They make millions off jails now instead of using our taxes . The want more incarcerates , which corrupts our freedom.

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE

Gregory Weegman more like GREGORY WEEDMAN...😂😂

feel

@Hello Everyone, and the best weed joke in history goes toooo......

Trippay

I would but isnt a massive clusterfuck of regulation?

idk how it works in the usa, but here in germany u r not allowed to create a new bank unless u have 5mio€ *&* have worked at least 4 years as boss/viceboss of a alrdy existing bank. guess u should also go check the regulations first, probably ain't much different in usa...

Can they just buy rental properties, laundromats and cleaners.. run the money thru fronts? Too many movies I know.

Its actually hard to think of any country that doesnt have anything that is both legal and illegal

@@Palladiosios Laws do not authorize what you can do, they define what you can't do. Is there a law in Greece that says you are allowed to drink water, or breathe air?

Daibin Chen always love "weeding" up my friends

Welcome to the truth, our federal government moves with corporate lobbyists. Not states or the voice of the people.

the corporation wasn't run by the gov. they could do drug tests if they wanted to. they were allowed to have their corporate agenda saying "we don't want potheads hired". srsly, WTF, why does every little shit have to be explained to americans?

fired for taking a legal medicine prescribed to you for your disability. it’s discrimination, but he has no way to fight it because of federal law. so sad.

Dichtsau he wasnt a pothead, he was taking his legally prescribed medicine and if pot weren’t federally illegal, he could have sued that company using the americans with disability act as backup. did you even watch the video?

Makes you question if people actually read through this stuff. A lot of the laws here don't make much sense

Start 16:12 NOW!!

Some of those guys went through hell, pretty much literally it seems, and if they can find something that helps them even just a little bit, and doesn't hurt anyone else, we should support and protect them. I know I couldn't survive what they did, how many legislators think they could?

E Bellyfish When I read about what war can do to people, and ptsd, it makes my heart go out to vets... they need our compassion. I would go to that Danny's house and roll him a joint myself... just let the man medicate in peace✌

Wildheårt exactly how do they expect them to live productive life's out of the force while they're giving them all the opioids.

I'm convinced that the only people against swallowing tonnes of nuclear waste have never tried swallowing tonnes of nuclear waste. (That logic doesn't work. I'm not against the legalization of marijuana, personally, but come up with better arguments.)

Why not just give him straight up opium? All his pain will go away

@ Mene Tekel: Because opium is immensely addictive and oftentimes when it is used too often patients become dependent on it. Opium is alright for short-term conditions but that man's PTSD will never truly go away. Marijuana, on the other hand, has almost no addictive qualities to it and thus can be taken for long stretches of time with far less negative effects.

There are very few scientific studies that help prove the point that weed helps PTSD. All the information that is available comes from personal testimonies so who knows if that guy is lying or not. John's episode really only has one good point and that is it takes way to long get approval from the federal government to have a license to test marijuana. So it's understandable why the federal government doesn't give out medical marijuana because in all reality we have no idea of the long term affects.

+John Brand There is literally already TONS of research on pot and PTSD. Google is your friend. Jon isn't the end-all of happenings in america. Fuck, even the government has FEDERAL patents on THC treatments for alzheimers patients. Again, google.

djl713 the US has historically treated their veterans like shit from our revolution to now

Lol

YES!!!! But remember, you're never allowed to look that up, if you do, your a Craig.

Hell yeah

Along with all the Little Stinkers and citizens of KurtisTown. :) (Wonder if any one will get the reference...)

I was looking for other Gregs 🤣

I was scrolling looking for this comment. I knew it was there!

Sad :( buy more next time!

420 likes Noice:)

You left out the poutine..😊

@@verbose0 been meaning to try poutine greetings from michigan, I plan to visit Canada after the pandemic

You know what, after this past year, i might just have to break down and finally move from America to Canada

Ahhh... guess it's time to book some tickets, vistas, new identity and nationality 😂

Don't forget the healthcare! *sighs in american

Shut up, Greg.

"sour puss" I know that thanks to jacksepticeye.

Since when is punching cats funny? >^.^

back then and actually up until around the 90s-00s

Nothing about Nixon should be fair. That bastard was a freakin racist from jumpstreet. He got what he deserved , the only thing is, they should of impeached all the laws he initiated along with his damn presidency !!!

HANK! DFTBA!

TubbyBubbleLove42 same

Hank with former president Obama

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaame here.

Hey me too!

He sees you Greg. He’s watching, always watching.

super creepy

Found one

Terrence Brann , pay attention Greg!!😂🤔

Was smoking a joint, I freaking lost it. Was literally rolling on the floor laughing after that. XD

uncensorer S

I am not a Greg

Lu Sapphire and the Muffin Button Band I would say property theft and bring up all those damned lighter thieves :) . But in all seriousness I could see crimes being committed to pay for weed. But that's not because of weed itself that would be caused by previous mental instability or an incredibly weak will and a poor train of decisions. Ya know.... the kind of isolated cases that are complete outliers from the norm.

Neodova But it'd also be cheaper if legal, correct? And an addict is just as likely to steal to buy booze, right?

Ladygothii12 Ix-nay on the Eg-gray.

The Good News Channel First, I'm sorry to hear that happened to her. Was she ok? Second, exactly what I mean. Not to mention all the domestic violence attributed to alcohol reported on a daily basis. But when you're high, you just get slow and get the munchies. Hell, you're less likely to try to pull anything because you'll be way too paranoid. But alcohol is legal, and marijuana still isn't. One causes violence. One causes Dorito's.

Same issues as with cigarettes and alcohol, then.