Many times different governments around world tried to ban them. More often than not it was making production and sell of them one of the top income sources of criminals. It is usually less harmful for society to have them legal with lots of tax to make them less accessible than to ban them and have wealthy and powerful gangsters.
Amnestes t1_j2fgpb7 wrote
Reply to ELI5: It’s quite clear that alcohol and cigarettes are bad for our health, why are they still around? by kinotico
Many times different governments around world tried to ban them. More often than not it was making production and sell of them one of the top income sources of criminals. It is usually less harmful for society to have them legal with lots of tax to make them less accessible than to ban them and have wealthy and powerful gangsters.