Here's great picture, courtesy of the US Department of Justice:



Notice how the pill form of THC is presented as safe, because, of course, it was produced by a large pharmaceutical company with only your best interests in mind, profits be damned.

And the joint is presented as ineffective because it's illegal. And it's illegal because it's ineffective. Drug warriors are legendary for epic circular reasoning for a reason!

There is some more twaddle about how the pill is better than smoking marijuana, because you can be precise with your dosage, and because there is more tar in a joint than in a cigarette.

Brilliant. No one smokes joints anymore, because it's so hard to figure out how much to smoke. Right. And who smokes a pack's worth of joints a day? Seriously, has the DoJ ever even met a pot smoker?