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WARNING: The post you are replying to may have used sarcasm.

I admit that the price of LEGAL cigarettes plus a rough patch in my money making gave me the push to quit my three packs a day habit ... it'll be twenty two years this November <3 I do not remember the price of neither cigarettes nor alcohol being a factor preventing my additction forming. But...

I hear the same thing about cigarettes and alcohol. I'm not convinced that this argument is true. The substance non-abusers I know will not drink more if booze prices went down. Hence cheapness does not necessarily lead to overuse and addiction.

You were asking what to do with junkies, i.e. those who are addicts already. And that's what AA and other Twelve Step programmes are for - they are not about prevention but about cure/not on the take. I will be an alcoholic until I die, so I will pad the figures of addicts, but AA keeps me dry...

Of course, a balance needs to be struck between tax level and profitability of illegal production/smuggling. Allah Akbar! Does not work too well, I'm afraid. At least judging by myself. Maybe others were smarter ... There is e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics_Anonymous or...

Such statistics are as biased and twisted as those for deaths attributed to so-called COVID. Same la-la land as margarine versus butter health claims. I'm in bed with all those saying that alcohol prolly is worse than marijuana. Also, what's the problem with taxing legal marijuana on THC level...