Will Marijuana Follow in Footsteps of Big Tobacco?

The legalization of marijuana is steadily moving — or perhaps creeping — forward in the United States.

This has some experts concerned that the public health battles fought against Big Tobacco are about to be repeated — this time against the burgeoning Big Marijuana industry.

“Given the lessons learned from the 20th-century rise of another legal addictive substance, tobacco, we believe that such an industry could transform marijuana and its effects on public health,” wrote the authors of a 2014 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Naturally, people on both sides of the marijuana legalization debate are quick to draw comparisons between the two substances. Many of these arguments are seemingly at odds with each other.

When you look deeper into the nature of marijuana products and cigarettes themselves, what shakes out is a torrent of similarities and differences that start to cut through the smoky haze...

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