Christmas in the West is not only about food and alcohol. It’s also time to light a cigar or in these more PC days, a reefer.
This reminded me that the decision by the United Nations’ drug agency to reclassify cannabis is one driven by money and profits rather than science and rationality, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam: more at https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/un-decision-on-cannabis-legalisation-down-to-power-of-money-not-rationality-and-science
And as though alcohol and tobacco don’t have $ behind them.
Btw, the science behind cannabis, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs: PAP really makes case for banning tobacco and alcohol. Seriously, I’m sure the absence of a ban in S’pore on alcohol and tobacco have nothing to do with money and profits, its driven by science and rationality.
What do you think?
Btw, I belive in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the 9th Immortal.
Thoughts of a Cynical Investor 
The problem is outlawing smoking and alcohol entirely. What has been done is to tax these more severely.